Did you ever feel safe when giving out your credit card details buying over the internet? You know you wanted to buy it and had to have it now and yet you still gave your credit card details - reluctantly!
Don’t you wish that sometimes you can just buy over the internet without giving out your credit card details?
Well, now you can! With Amazon’s Text Buy It solution, you can now find and buy items on Amazon.com.
Here are the three step ways to do so:
Step 1:
Text search keywords to “AMAZON” (262966) with either an item name, name of author, name of artist, the ISBN/UPC code, etc.
Step 2:
Reply with 1 or 2 to buy an item from your given search results.
Step 3:
An Amazon.com representative will call you back so you “need to answer the call to hear your details and confirm the order”.
Please note that first time users may receive a text message requesting your Amazon.com account email address and default zip code.
Jupiter Research projects that whilst this year 46 million US mobile users will access the internet via mobile phones - 69.6% or 166 million will send text messages. By adding the text message component to its m-commerce offerings, Amazon.com has greatly increased their exposure to the number of consumers who can access its merchandise via mobile phones.
The significant thing about this is that a consumer doesn’t need to have access to the internet on their mobile phone. This service is going to definitely change the way people shop and the traditional retail outlets either online or offline needs to get their merchandise or store mobilised.
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Pros: No need to lug around your laptop or worry about getting access to the internet to shop.
Cons: You could potentially overshop on your phone!
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