So I haven't seen anyone post this yet... if its WTLwhatever, I don't care, bite me.

Amazon Gold Box trick

So say there is something that you want from Amazon that is relatively expensive and a couple of hundred dollars is going to make the difference in whether or not you buy it. You can "force" it into your gold box and get 5% off. +24-36month no interest financing if you use the Amazon card. 2-day free shipping, too maybe if you try Amazon Prime.

For example: If I hypothetically wanted to buy a Samsung LN52A750, Amazon's price is $2519.88 today.

If you could hypothetically "force" the LN52A750 into your gold box, it would be 5% off or $2393.89 or ~$126 off.

So, here's how it's done:

1.) Create a new account. You don't want to login to your existing account because if you have a long standing account like I do, this will take forever as you will see later.

2.) Browse to the item you want.

3.) scroll to the bottom until you find the section that says "customers who bought this item also bought..."

4.) select any of the suggestions. For example, the Samsung gave a blu-ray player.

5.) scroll down the blu-ray player until you see the reviews. Check the box that says " I own it"

6.) go to "recommendations" at the top of the page. This is where Amazon gives you suggestions on what they think you might be interested in. Select "not interested" next to everything that isn't the thing you want. At the bottom of the page select "refresh your recommendations". This is where it is better to have a new account. My old existing account had hundreds of recommendations I had to clear out. So when you are done, the only thing in recommendations should be the item you want or an item almost identical to what you want.

7.) go to your gold box and it should be there within a day or so. If that doesn't work, rinse and repeat.




I probably made that more complicated than it needs to be but, whatever. Wee information is fun.

 

hypothetically speaking

 

Hypothetically this is a cool trick if Amazon doesn't plug the hole 2 seconds after this workaround is published...

 

Why would they plug it? It still generates a sale of a high-ticket item that already has a significant markup (well over 5%)

A sale at a slightly lower profit margin is considerably more important to the bottom line than a prospective sale at a higher profit margin.

Simple economics, son.

 

 

Or spell, apparently.

 

Thank you Mr. Smartypants.

I wasn't saying they should plug it, just saying they probably will. Plus, I really just wanted to use the word "hypothetically" in a sentence...

 

Yea it's a nice trick.

 

Yeah like soggy knew the trick. You have to have money **** to spend it. Peso peddler.

 

Ed's not Mexican, he's Chinese...jeez...

 

I'm going to cry.