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Posted by Haje Jan Kamps

I just stumbled over a clever tip over at the Consumerist - Basically, there’s a clever way of searching on Amazon.com, where you can find deals on photography gear at massive discounts! Set your credit card to stun…

The trick is quite cunning - all you have to do is to hack the URL a little bit, allowing you to find deals with a certain percentage off the recommended retail price!

Collected in an useful list here:

Fabulous, yes? Of course, (forgive me for the ruthless nameplugging) you can also get my book at 35% off from Amazon :-)

Fabulous stuff. Thanks for the tip, Consumerist!

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Insights, suggestions and comments

By Jen on July 5th, 2007 (permalink)

Anyone know if this can be done with other catagories, such as books, and if so, how one knows how to hack into the url?

By Andrew Ferguson on July 5th, 2007 (permalink)

Hmm, not a single Canon L series lens in the 90 percent off category…

Strange… :P

By Tim Solley on July 5th, 2007 (permalink)

Awesome tip! I’ll definitely add this one to my blog as well.

By Will Foster on July 5th, 2007 (permalink)

bummer Andrew, I was thinking the same thing (but for Nikon)… really good deals on really crappy stuff… Cool tip though! I am sure with enough time on my hands I could find at least ONE thing that I could use! :)

By Jeff Fritz on July 8th, 2007 (permalink)

Some of those in the 90% off category at least are ridiculously overpriced to begin with. Over $100 for a 256MB SD Card? It’s not a deal even with the 90% off.

By Brendan walker on July 9th, 2007 (permalink)

it’s weird that i’m not jealous you wrote a book, simply that you have an author’s page on amazon.

By Sarah Templeton on July 10th, 2007 (permalink)

It doesn’t work for amazon.co.uk unfortunately! It comes back saying nothing is avilable with x% off! Looks like the US has much better bargains!

By Maxpower on September 3rd, 2007 (permalink)

They don’t ship to Australia . . . hello?!

 

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