How you can get back money on your Amazon Purchases

Whilst chatting with a friend of mine on MSN last week he mentioned that he'd made a useful find on. 

You see, he was trawling through the terms and conditions on Amazon's website and found this sentence:

"Amazon's prices for released items will change from time to time based on a variety of factors. If Amazon's price for an already-released item decreases within 30 days after we ship the item to you, we'll be glad to refund the difference in price if you contact us within that 30-day period."

Amazing !

So if I buy something today and next week Amazon reduce it by 20% then I can claim that 20% reduction back !  I can see why they've hidden that away in their Terms and Conditions. It could cost them loads of money!

But the question is how do you find time to keep going back and checking and rechecking to see if their buys have gone down ?

This made me start searching the Interweb for an answer.

It appears that up until recently the only way that these price drops could be found was either by recalling all the purchases you’ve made or by wading through all your email confirmations one at a time. And after that visiting Amazon to find out the price. Long winded!

Then I discovered this price protection site.

All you have to do is to enter the item code, the amount paid, the date you bought the item (get these from your emails) and an email address. The site will then tell you if the product drops in price up to 30 days after you paid for it.  Then all you do is follow the simple instructions provided to ask Amazon for the refund.

It's so easy it's ingenious !

So if you feel like saving some money try out the price protector site and saving money!