Did you know that Amazon offers a 30-day price guarantee? If the price of anything they sell goes down within a month after you bought it, you're entitled to a refund...if you know how to ask for it.
This useful tidbit came from this informative piece by Timothy Noah in Slate:
Like Amazon's customer-service number itself, the 30-day price guarantee is not something Amazon publicizes....The pricing page also says, under the heading, "Price Matching," that "Amazon.com does not have a price-matching policy at this time." Technically, that's true. If you can find an item cheaper somewhere else, Amazon won't match that price.
What Amazon artfully neglects to add is that if you can find that item cheaper on Amazon up to 30 days after your purchase, Amazon will, in effect, match its new, lowered price by refunding you the difference. But you have to ask.
How do you ask, you ask?
Use the top-secret, hush-hush, on-the-QT Amazon customer service number (1-800-201-7575, ext. 7).
And, according to Noah, there's an even easier way to go about it. Once you've bought something from Amazon, go to Refund Please, enter your email, the item, and when you bought it, and a computer will track Amazon's price fluctuations. If the price falls, you get an email, and all you have to do is call and claim your refund. The site tracks the price of non-book items as well, so if that new computer you just bought from Amazon drops $100...wouldn't you want that $100 dropping into your pocket?
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