We all know that Amazon is one of the most used e-commerce sites in the world, but not all of us know the tricks to save money on this online sales platform.
Indeed, it is not only Black Friday that allows you to make sensational purchases, saving a lot of money, but there are many other methods to save money while shopping online, even during the rest of the year.
On this platform, you can take advantage of advantageous offers reserved for both new and old customers.
Almost every day you can find discounts and surprise promotions on new products.
Let’s discover 8 tips to save money on Amazon
1) The destocking
The most experts will surely know it already, and will also have taken advantage of the advantageous offers on the online destocking section. Just like a traditional clearance store, you can find many popular items from past collections or more recent catalog releases. There are about 20 discount categories that also include video games or electronics.
2) Current offers
Have you ever heard of the current offers? During the week of Black Friday you can find a lot of them but on the online shopping platform Amazon you can take advantage of them on a daily basis. The discounts at Amazon are a section by themselves.
3) Refurbished items
Refurbished items are no longer a novelty at Amazon and with these products, it is possible to get deals. Next to each item in the refurbished section the conditions and the possible warranty are specified. Amazon declares that all the products offered for sale have been tested and inspected before being given to the customers.
4) Plan and Save
The Plan and Save service allow you to save between 5 and 10%. This method on Amazon provides for automatic monthly delivery of one or more products of your choice from daily use, food items, home and personal care, with free shipping. It’s like subscribing to a purchase. Sign up and save is available to all customers, at no cost, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
5) How to control prices: price comparison sites
Products on Amazon are subject to price fluctuations, even on a daily basis, according to the law of supply and demand. To know the right time to buy your products, it is possible to use online price comparison tools. These take into account all the prices of the items on sale on Amazon over time and one of the most used is Keepa, also available as a browser extension, which in this case will appear on the same product page revealing the price fluctuations.
6) Dollar-prices
As you can guess, at Amazon, which has several stores in Europe, the change of suffix often indicates the price difference for the same product. Be careful though: there are shipping costs, and for that, it’s not always worth it to buy abroad.
Despite this premise, you can give it a try. Also, you can check the price differences between different stores on sites like Heidoc.
7) 5 dollars with gift vouchers
Giving a small gift to a friend can be a real opportunity to save money. If you had never bought an Amazon gift voucher before, until February 28 you could do so and earn 5 dollars. All you had to do was to respect these two conditions: the voucher had to be worth at least 50 dollars and you had to have never taken advantage of the promotion before. This offer is no longer valid but it could very well come back, so be careful next time.
8) 10 dollars off immediately
The offers never end. Indeed, as soon as the promotion that allows you to receive 5 dollars by reloading your own Amazon account ended, the one called “reload at checkout” started. This one offered a 10 euro coupon as a gift to those who reloaded their account of at least 30 dollars in Sisal Pay or Lis Recharge points. With this promotion, even if you only spend 30 dollars, you could get 33% discount to be used on the products sold and shipped by Amazon. Unfortunately, this offer expired on January 31, 2019, and the voucher could not be kept for life, and indeed had to be used before April 30. This offer is no longer valid, but it could very well come back, so watch out for it next time.
