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Amazon Introduces Text Message Purchasing

Posted in Cool by Dan at 9:59 am
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Amazon has launched TextBuyIt, a service that lets you search for and buy items on Amazon directly from your mobile phone.

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To use TextBuyIt you send Amazon an SMS to 262966 with the name of the product you are looking for then if Amazon stocks the item (my money is on that they do stock it) it will tell you the price. Taking it one step further if you like the item listed you reply back with an item number and someone from Amazon will call you to finalize the order. Kinda nifty for on the fly price comparisons. Usage of the service will incur no additional fee.

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