More and more people are buying through Amazon. Good prices, speed in shipments, good returns service and the possibility of reading real opinions of thousands of products have made it "the web to buy everything" par excellence. They say that they are even studying the possibility of distributing their products with drones and that they will soon be able to make ultra-fast shipments to take you, for example, a hot coffee. But that's another story, let's focus on the topic that concerns us, which is: buy good, beautiful, and above all ... CHEAP.
During the past "Black Friday" we spent all day posting offers of cycling equipment that we found on Amazon in real time through our Facebook and Twitter. That day we learned a lot about how Amazon works and we thought that this information can be very useful to find bargains on this website. With a little patience we can get pretty attractive bargains and, if we usually buy through Amazon, these discounts can mean a lot of money at the end of the year, money that we can spend on our cycle trips. Do you want to know how? Well, let's start with the tricks!
4 tricks to find discounts on Amazon
1. The "Offers" section
This is the most obvious trick. Surely you'll know. When we enter Amazon, we will go to the "OFFERS" section and go down a bit until we see the categories on the left. For our case, as we are looking for equipment related to bicycle tourism, we will mark the category "Sports and Outdoors". On the right we will see the offers available at that time, the time remaining for the end of the offer (if it is a limited time offer) and the discount percentage applied.
If we also order the products according to "Discount: descending order", we will see the most reduced first. This trick is quite engaging, you are warned.
2. The trick of the secret code
This trick is much less known. Well, imagine that in the offers section there is not the product you are looking for, for example: a tent. What we will do is put in the superior search engine: "tent" (or whatever we are looking for). Thousands of results will appear but what interests us are those that are reduced, right?
What we have to do is copy the code: & pct-off = 10-99 at the end of the very long address that appears above. This will only show the items with a discount between 10% and 99%.
As you can see, now a message appears indicating that we have filtered results with a discount applied. We can change the numbers depending on the discount we are looking for, for example:
& pct-off = 20-99 -> For discounts from 20%
& pct-off = 30-99 -> For discounts from 30%
& pct-off = 40-99 -> For discounts from 40%
3. The "wish lists" to track prices
The prices at Amazon fluctuate a lot. For example, the saddlebags that I have, some Vaude Aqua Back I bought them on Amazon for $ 64, at the time I write this post are at $ 100. That's $ 37 more expensive! Or what is the same an increase of 60% The same saddlebag!
To be aware of the price decreases of the products we want to buy we have to create a "wish list". Next to the basket, on your left, click on "Wish List" and select "Create a wish list". You will have to put a name and that's it, it's already created. Now you can go find the products that interest you. Once inside the product, on the right you will see the option "Add to the Wish List". Add all the products you are interested in to track the price.
Now go back to your Wish List, click on "filter and order" and select "Products with discount". If the price of some products has been lowered, they will appear next to a message indicating the percentage discounted since you added the product to the Wish List. Obviously if you just added them, none will appear.
Check your wish list regularly until you lower the price of the product you are following.
4. Amazon Prime
Finally, this more than a trick is a recommendation. If you make many orders for Amazon in a single year (from 5-10 orders is already profitable) you probably want to sign up for an Amazon Prime account, now it goes for $ 20 a year so value it. The first month is free but beware! because you have to unsubscribe before the month ends if you will not be charged the € 20 automatically. One option a little bit is to open a different account every month with different emails.
General tips to buy on Amazon
Finally I give you a series of final tips based on my experience, which more than to get bargains is for you to apply them in a general way:
-Look at the opinions of users but distrust the "TOP commentators", especially when they give 5 stars, write very long opinions and also add photographs. These "TOP" commentators are often paid by brands to sell their products better. Trust more than normal opinions.
-Compare prices of the same product in other stores. Try for example to do a Google search for the same product to know if the Amazon price is good. Keep in mind that sometimes the shipment is not included and can vary quite the final price.
-If you have the "Amazon shopping" app installed on your mobile you can use the scanning option to check the Amazon price or the opinions of that product.
-If you have any problem with the product do not hesitate to return it. The returns are free and are usually quite efficient.
-If you do not usually stay at home I recommend that you put a "post office" pickup point in the shipping address or even send it to your work. This way you will not have to approach the central of the corresponding shipping company.
That is all. As you can see there are quite a few options to get good deals on Amazon. My recommendation is that you apply them all. Believe me, in the long term you will save a lot of money. I recommend that you save this page in favorites and open it every time you go to buy something on Amazon as a "Amazon Shopping Guide".
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