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No credit card? Amazon will let you buy things with cash
Launched on Amazon this week, the retail giant has introduced a process that lets consumers add funds to their Amazon.com accounts using cash. This involves visiting a participating brick-and-mortar retailer which currently includes CVS Pharmacy, Sheetz, Family Fare, Kum &...
- Posted 9 years ago
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Costco’s membership fees are rising on June 1
Rising for the first time since 2011, Costco will be raising annual membership fees between $5 to $10 starting on June 1, 2017. Specifically, the Gold Star membership and Business membership will increase from $55 to $60 and the...
- Posted 9 years ago
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Amazon drops free shipping minimum back to $35
Roughly one year after raising the free shipping minimum to $49, Amazon has reversed course and lowered the threshold back down to the original amount at $35. This is the first time that Amazon has lowered the...
- Posted 9 years ago
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Amazon wants to drop packages near your house using parachutes
Detailed in a new patent granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday, Amazon is considering airdropping packages from drones and guiding those packages to a destination near your home. Hypothetically, this will keep the drones from colliding with...
- Posted 9 years ago
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What’s new in February on Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO Now
Interested in what movies and television shows will be added to your favorite streaming service this month? We’ve compiled an extensive list of everything coming and going on Netflix and HBO Now as well as what’s arriving on Amazon...
- Posted 9 years ago
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Amazon wants a giant warehouse in the sky for drone deliveries
Showing up recently in a registered patent, Amazon wants to build an “airborne fulfillment center” (AFC) that would hover 45 thousand feet in the sky in order to dispatch drones around a city for deliveries. Conceptually, this...
- Posted 9 years ago
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What’s new in December on Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO Now
Interested in what movies and television shows will be added to your favorite streaming service this month? We’ve compiled an extensive list of everything coming and going on Netflix and HBO Now as well as what’s arriving on Amazon...
- Posted 9 years ago
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New Amazon Prime Perks: Free e-books & Twitch streaming perks
Rolled out within the last couple weeks, Amazon is adding onto the existing set of Prime perks offered by the online retail giant. Most recently, Amazon added the Prime Reading section; a subset of books and magazines...
- Posted 10 years ago
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Amazon finally bans shady incentivized reviews
After months and months of Amazon sellers gaming the review system, the online retailer has finally decided to crack down on reviewers that use this disclaimer phrase (or a variation of) “I received this item at a discounted...
- Posted 10 years ago
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Amazon wants to deliver packages inside your home, not outside
Possibly pairing with Amazon’s fleet of white delivery vans in metropolitan areas, the online retailer is currently beta testing package delivery that’s left inside your home or garage. Running a test in Seattle, Amazon is linking up...
- Posted 10 years ago
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Shut Up and Take My Money: $50 Echo Dot (2nd generation)
While Google preps to release their Echo-competitor, Amazon has made a move that might make the Google Home family of devices obsolete before it’s even released. Reducing the price on the Echo Dot by nearly half, Amazon has opened...
- Posted 10 years ago
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Amazon SubPrime? The latest Prime Perk is Student Loans
Actually opting into the PR nightmare of associating the retail giant with the much-despised, private student loan industry, Amazon entered into a tentative partnership with Wells Fargo to offer students an additional half percentage point off interest rates...
- Posted 10 years ago















