Amazon Launches Text-Message Shopping

[HardOCP News]

If you are a married guy or maybe just in a serious relationship, I got one more reason you should hate text messaging and shopping….Amazon.com has combined them. Gee, thanks Amazon!

Amazon TextBuyIt, which launched late Tuesday, lets people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 (that's "Amazon" on the keypad) from anywhere their cell phones work — including from inside physical stores. If Amazon stocks matching items, the service returns two results at a time. Shoppers can immediately buy one of the first two the selections by texting back the number "1" or "2," or they can ask for more by texting the letter "M."

 

[Eulogy]

And hence the bidding war for those first two spots begins. Much a lot like SEO in a way, though with prodcuts. (this is for description searches, not ISBN/UPC searches).

 

[ZenDragon]

I think this is kind of a good idea, I often will make the trip to some store only to walk away empty handed because I feel like I would be paying to much. To be able to compare prices to online prices almost immediately would save me a lot of money! I just wish somebody would offer a service like this to buy from more than just Amazon, but from several participating companies. Newegg or ZipZoomFly for example.

 

[Exavior]

Nice way to make some extra money. I wonder how much the text message cost you?