hey guys what's up welcome back to another money Monday video where we talk
all about things money on Monday so if you're new here welcome you are so
welcome here my name is Kat Theo and today we're not actually talking about
ways to make money but ways to save you money so with the holiday season just
around the corner if you're anything like me Black Friday shopping is pretty
fun to go people watching but it isn't that fun if you don't want to get your
ankle broken or getting a fight or something you can literally just go on
Amazon and save a lot more money and the hassle of stayin up it's all free the
moring and fighting with people at wallmart
We got other things to do! So today we are going to get into some
really cool Amazon hacks that you can use today to save you a lot more money
than you already are shopping on Amazon let's go
so the first way you can save money on Amazon is getting in an automatic refund
when the price drops so Amazon is constantly changing their prices of
products and there are websites that you can use so when the price does drop you
can get a refund for that the first books that you can use to get a refund
if your price jobs is called paribus.co it's free and it's really easy to use
the second website is it looks like that will alert you if your price drops so
it's kind of similar but it's different this is gonna be before you buy the
product let's say you want to buy a Billy a bicycle but on Amazon right now
it is $200 you don't want to buy it until it's $180 so on this website they
will let you know if the price does drop to $180 up so you can buy Billy this
bike all you have to do is set the alert on
camel camel camel .com and when the price hits back number that you want it
will alert you ok the third way is something I actually learned in my
marketing class was just really tricky way that Amazon and other online
retailers like to trick you if you go to purchase something in this game your
shopping cart and then you abandon the shopping cart very quickly have you
ever noticed that sometimes they'll send you a new smell reminding you that you
have something in the shopping cart and you didn't buy it maybe they'll offer
you a coupon or give you a discount this is a really good way you can take
advantage of these marketing techniques to save a little money this is called
shopping cart abandonment and there's a very high percent of people that do this
so what companies like to do if you like to offer a discount or coupons you
finish the order so something you're already gonna purchase if you just
abandon the car and wait a few more days you might actually receive a coupon a
lot of companies do this and you'll notice this if you start abandoning your
shopping cart okay the fourth way is giving the cash rebate for already
shopping on Amazon so if you haven't already heard about eBay and mister
rebates I think it's called these are cash back websites now if you're already
gonna buy on Amazon you can go through this website buy what you're already
gonna buy and they're gonna give you a percentage back to you in cash Amazon on
ebay.com is up to five percent so if you haven't
already signed up with him I have a link in the description and if you sign up it
would really help me out my fifth way you can save money on Amazon is buying
products that are in a color that are not as desirable so not every product
this would be an option but there's a lot of things that cost more just
because of the color of it for example if you're gonna buy a high waisted bikini
and black everyone likes black so maybe it'll cost more but if you decide to get
it in yellow it might save you five extra dollars so check out these options
when you're buying some things where you have color options to see if you can
save money but if the color isn't that important to you it could be like
he's way too safe much this fixed way you can save money on Amazon is getting
their prime Amazon store card it is a credit card but it's only able to be
used on the Amazon website and you get to say 5% on anything in purchase so I
don't recommend this if you're just bad with credit cards in general but if
you're good with cards and credit this could be a really easy way to save by
percent on everything you buy the seventh way you can save money on Amazon
is sharing your Prime account with another adult so if you have someone
else that you can share your account with you can save each other money so
let's say like it's 99 dollars a year for the prime account now it's 50 if you
have two people on it they don't have to pay for it you don't have to anymore so
you can save money by doing it you can always sign up with one address but it
looks like your best friend or or someone that you you know aren't really
close with you guys can just to share the address and then pick up your stuff
so Prime membership at half the price oh hey number eight is a lot of people
don't know this but if you ever buy something on your private count and then
two day free shipping doesn't get there in two days you can actually get a month
free of your prime account so if you buy something let's say Billy's bicycles if
you buy Billy's bicycle and it gets there in three days instead of two you
can just contact customer service and tell them that it got there late and
they will actually give you a month three prime okay so if there's any
students watching this you can actually get a free student Prime account which
doesn't have all the benefits of a normal criminal but you know it does
have its benefits if you want to get all of the benefits of the full prime
account you can actually get in a 50% discount if you have an email that is
dot e-d-u so you don't even have to be a student anymore but if you can still
access that edu account you can get a student connect account for free or you
can get it at 50% off my tenth hack is transferring your leftover Visa gift
cards to your Amazon gift cards a lot of people don't know that you can
actually take advantage of the extra leftovers your Visa gift cards and put
it onto your it what's on big card you know how you get these Visa gift cards
for your birthday or for Christmas but when you finish them and maybe you have
like a dollar left or $0.50 and you can't do anything with it you can
actually take those balances and put it on your Amazon and gift card so if you
have a bunch add it up you might be able to actually buy something on Amazon
instead of having wasted cards that only have like 60 cents on it a dollar two
dollars on it the minimal amount for transferring from the visa to the Amazon
gift card is 15 cents so you do have to have at least 15 cents but if you have
at least 15 cents then you can transfer it to your Amazon gift card okay my 11
pack is if you prime an Amazon account you're actually legible to get a free
book every single month to the Kindle lending library if you already paid $10
a month or Kindle unlimited you already have access to all these books but if
you're just a Prime membership without paying any more you're allowed to get a
free book every single month okay moms out there Amazon moms like twelfth
little Amazon hack if you are expecting if you're about to have a child within
the next two months and you're already an Amazon Prime member you can save 15%
on baby products that you need as a new mother you're only legible within the
firm the last two months of your pregnancy so you have to be around like
seven months pregnant honestly I don't really know how you get through that but
you can get 20% off on diapers you can get exclusive offers that are only
available to Amazon moms coupons and a $10 credit when you sign up by the
Amazon okay so I don't know if you're like or
I'm just like a super extra but I have all of my Dropbox free accounts maxed
out Google Photos maxed out but did you know that on Amazon they have their own
cloud where you can store your photos and videos for free you do have to be an
Amazon Prime member already but if you are already then this is a great way to
have even more storage for free online my 14th hack is by taking advantage of
Anselm's Instant Video it's kind of like the Netflix of Amazon so they have their
own series that they're doing and it's a hundred percent free if you already are
a private member my 15 hack is amazon coupons do you know Amazon has their own
coupon section where you can literally get Amazon coupons and use it on Amazon
in save money instantly a lot of these products are things that you commonly
buy already but I must say it's only gonna save you money if they're things
you already buy if you're just buying things because there was a coupon you're
not saving money but if the things you are buy then this could be a really easy
way to save hundreds dollars on my 16th way is an interesting way that I kind of
stole from being an influencer but there are websites like vipon ripple
influencer and snag a shout that pretty much will give you discounted items for
review so literally legally the rules of Amazon you can't ask for a positive
review so they can't ask you to give a positive review but they can give you a
discount an item for a review it can be negative neutral or positive it doesn't
matter but let's say you want to buy Billy a bicycle and on one of these
websites the three that I just listed on one of these websites you see a bicycle
that is only $40 it's usually 200 so they'll send you this bike for $40 what
was that a deep discount and you leave a review for them it doesn't have to be
positive like I said they can't force you to write a positive review you
should still be honest in your ear this is a really great way that you can
get discounted products another way that you will not find anywhere else but I
have done this before and I've gotten three things by doing this so is
contacting the sellers on Amazon that do not have any stars so if they have not
have any reviews yet you can contact them and say hey I would like to try
your product I said you do not have any reviews would you be interesting in
sending me a product for free or at a discount for our review once again you
cannot promise a positive review because you should be honest if you don't want
the product don't know how much review a lot of people don't reply to you but
you'd be surprised how many people do another little tip trick is that on Amazon
you can publicly put your email address so sellers can actually contact you if
they're ever sending out products Amazon customers if you have up your email
public they can easily contact you my seventeenth way is using Amazon's
trade in program to get paid in gift cards or things you don't want anymore
in the past I have used Gazelle to sell my old phones and they give you pretty much
nothing like $10 or $20 so amazon has the same program or you can give them
your broken phone or phones you don't use anymore and they will give you money in
a Amazon gift card that you can use it to obviously buy things my 18 trick is
using it a Chrome extension to find out if Amazon prices is actually the
cheapest on the internet or not so what this Chrome extension does it to browse
all of Amazon stores to give you the cheapest price but not only do they scan
Amazon stores but they also scan other online retailers to see who has the
cheapest price so you can buy on that website because a lot of times
Enza is not the cheapest okay I don't know my camera just turned off so lost
some of my footage but anyways we're gonna just keep it moving
so my eighteenth way to save money on Amazon is through Amazon warehouse
Amazon warehouse is where you can buy things that people decide they don't
want anymore and they return it to Amazon so for example if you decided to
buy Billy a camera because you thought he would be a youtuber but Billy didn't
like the camera and he wants to return it and so instead you bought Billy a
bicycle so you can actually buy this camera and
get out of deep discount so let's check this theory now and see if it works so
let's take a look at the camera Canon Powershot SX 420 okay normally on Amazon
we can see that normally retails for $229 some are $244 another ones $249 ok
great now let's head over to Amazon warehouse let's go into the camera
section which we can see is 20% off on cameras that are returned let's see what
we have ok look we have a Canon Powershot SX 420 for a hundred and fifty
dollars so for so you can save a hundred dollars just because someone returned it
semi used so maybe you might be thinking buying semi used products is not your
thing because it can be broken or scratched you still have a 60 day window
to return it and get a refund if it is broken or scratched or it's just
something you decided you just don't want another great way to get discounts
on Amazon is through Amazon outlet they have a lot of parts that have
discontinued or out of season and they're not going to restock the product
so if you can find some pre discounted products they're my 20th way and my last
way is not really gonna save your money but it's gonna do really great things
for the community so with Amazon's smile anything you purchase through Amazon
smile which is pretty much the exact same as amazon.com but all of your the
proceeds they take like a half a percent of what you purchase and they send it to
the charity of your choice so if you want to buy Billy a bicycle so if you're
gonna spend $200 on Billy's bicycle then half a percent of those proceeds are
gonna go to a charity that you like so I'm currently donating my proceeds to
the organization that protects animals like that you can do a lot of other ones
so I really like this program because instead of forking out extra money to
donate which you know I probably should be doing anyways but it's already
something I'm gonna buy anyways and now the big company is gonna be forking out
the money putting their money into the
organization that you choose it's a really great way to give back to your
community it doesn't cost any more money and then using Amazon comm so you might
as well just do it you might as well why not so now it's your turn
have you used any of these tactics to save you some money on Amazon and what
other ways do you'd like to save money on Amazon I would love to know if you
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some money this holiday season okay I will see you next Monday bye