How to save 5% or more on amazon on anything.

Hello All,
Thought i should post this as this might help someone trying to get some percent off on their purchase. I am not the inventor of this method. I saw this on one forums sticky and was very popular just see if it works out for you.
Here it is i am pasting the method below
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Since several have asked me how I get my Amazon gold box quick picks to look like the image I attached I decided to post the write up that I read which shows how to manipulate whats picked for your quick picks. So here we go:

Basically your Quick Picks are your personal Amazon Deals of the Day (DotD) that have been catered to your past purchase history.

This takes a day+ to work and is definitely hit or miss on what is offered.

To see your current "Quick Picks"

* Go to hxxp://www.amazon.com/ (make sure you are signed in)
* Click on "Today's Deals" next to the gold box at the top
* Scroll down to see Your Name's Quick Picks

Now onto the 'manipulation'

Step 1:
Let's say you want an Xbox 360, what you need to do is 'fake' Amazon into thinking you own something related to it, say an Xbox 360 Controller. So search for a Controller, and then at the details page do a search for "Rate this item to improve your recommendations" and next to Rate this item click on "I own it". What this does is link it to your recommendations

Step 2:

* At the top of Amazon's page, click on "Recommendations"
* This will list everything that is recommend broken down by category.
* Remove everything not related to Xbox by clicking "Not interested" this may take quite a bit of time if you've purchased a few items from Amazon. Another quick way to remove unwanted items is to click on "Fix This" on an item and then click on "Don't use for recommendations"

Step 3: Come back the next day and see what Amazon has put in your "Quick Picks"

Yesterday I did just this, I added that I owned an Xbox 360 Controller, cleaned up my non-related recommendations and then today I was offered a Quick Pick of 5% off the Xbox 360 Arcade bundle: $265.99 vs $279.99, a savings of $14

This should work for practically anything, be it a CD, a book, or whatever, just add something that is somewhat related to what you want and chances are it might show up the next day.

Resetting Your Gold Box Quick Picks (Thanks to baboymo)

for those getting random crap in their Gold Box deals, here's a trick that will reset your picks to what you want.

1. Go to recommendations
2. Click link that says "These recommendations are based on items you own and more."
3. Click each product that you used to get items in your Gold Box.
4. Scroll down to "rate this item to improve your recommendations" and de-rate and de-own it (it will save automatically).
5. Search for a similar product and rate and own it.
6. Next day your Gold Box should be filled with what you want.

Note: It appears if you don't take advantage of the Gold Box deals, that's when you'll start to see random crap after several days. Just reset it and voila!
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Hope it works for all here. looks like a genuine way to save some bucks.
Regards,
Bob76

 

Good info. Thanks!

 

Thanks for the information! It should be helpful for peeps!


Cin

 

cool I just might try it

Thanks

Lynn

 

Wow, time to order some accessories for my laptop

 

I personally going through it. Lets see if it works. I have cleared all my recomendations and clicked one product "I own it" so now waiting for amazon to give some recomendations. Will let you know if I get some that i want.

I think it has to work because if you notice in the recomendations section amazon says itself that the recomendations are based on things you have ordered or things that you own.

Hope it works for someone.

Regards,
Bob76

 

will try this as well, since I also have a 1 month trial of Amazon Prime! i need a slingbox and 1TB external drive. Just wished they didn't charge sales tax.

 

nice
thanks very much for the info!!

 

the instructions don't seem to be exact. if you try to follow them, you can't find these "sections" exactly, or at least im not sure if im in the right section to change my list or reset it. i dont know, maybe it's just me. i unrated and unrecommended and put items on my "i own" list and after a day, i still get weird quick pick stuff. i'll try testing it out more but i know the discounts do work.

 

tried it but didn't see the discount....it is the same price as when you do a search.

 

Well I will try to locate the original thread where I saw this and post the link here as there was a number of people making it work. So far I am waiting for my recommendations its been two days.

will report back later.

 

There is something I need to order today, so I will be sure to try it out


Cin

 

I am happy to report that after 2 days amazon has added quite a few recommendation related to laptops including laptops as well.

 

so it's work or not

this will be good to save few bucks ...

 

I found this on my photography forum, it's a GREAT little trick for people who like to buy from Amazon

 

I wonder if this works on laptops. More specifically a MSI GT627, I'm looking for parts related to it i.e. batteries or whatever else but I have no luck. If I want the GT627-218US could I claim I own a GT627-216US and have a good chance the 218US would show up in my "quick picks", does anybody have any idea? Thank you.

 

it always worth a try, better than not doing it at all

the only thing that i got to show up that i wanted was the Slingbox Solo, but im not prepared to purchase it yet. that being said it does work, but it takes a while and my discount was 4%, better than nothing i suppose!