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Firefox Add-on: Amazon Deal Button

Navigate through Amazon’s Deals & Bargain sections and uncover the secret clearance sections with a button just few clicks away.   Keep updated with latest Amazon US Gold Box deals using personalized settings from myGoldBox.  Browse up to 90% off products in 20+ categories on Amazon US site and all international sites (UK, Germany, Japan, France, Italy and Canada).  Browse all categories of Amazon’s Deals and Bargains, Bestsellers, Movers and Shakers, Hot New Releases, Most Gifted, and Most Wished For items.   What’s more, highlight any keyword when you surf the web, then one click away you can compare Amazon and eBay price using that keyword.

DOWNLOAD Amazon Deal Button at Firefox Add-on Website.

Features

* All Amazon international sites supported, including amazon.com (US), amazon.co.uk (UK), amazon.co.jp (Japan), amazon.de (Germany), amazon.fr (France), amazon.ca (Canada), amazon.it (Italy)

* Easily navigate through Amazon most frequently updated deal sections including Deals & Bargains, Gold Box, Warehouse Deals, Outlet, and Friday Sales etc.

* Easily navigate Amazon clearance section by categories and by discount percentage ranges set by yourself.  For Amazon US shoppers, the discount range setting here will be also applied to myGoldBox when you check out personalized GoldBox deals.

Customizable sort order of how Amazon clearance products are listed, default option is Average Customer Review (from high to low).

* Easily change country and other settings by right click on the nav bar button.

* Easily navigate to Amazon popular destinations such as My Account, Sign In, My Cart etc.

* Compare Amazon and eBay price using context menu
— In the browser, highlight any text, right click, and choose “compare Amazon and eBay price for ….”

context menu

* Browse Bestsellers/Movers and Shakers/Hot New Releases/Most Wished For/Most Gifted items

Browse all Amazon categories of
— Bestsellers
— Hot New Releases
— Movers and Shakers
— Most Gifted Items
— Most Wished For Items
— Top Rated (US only)


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NOTE: Amazon Discount Button is supported by Amazon’s Affiliate program, without which we would not be able to afford to provide it.

Courtesy to  Shopholic from Firefox Add-ons and Yan Bezugliy‘s terrific blog ProBargainHunter.

User Manual

Settings

Discount range: Set your preferred discount range here, this setting applies to both Amazon Discounted Section and Amazon Customized Goldbox Deals (US only) service from One Stop Deals.   After you set the minimum and maximum discount range, only those products whose prices are discounted in that range will be shown when you click on either Amazon Discounted Section or Amazon Customized Goldbox Deals link.

Customized Goldbox Deals (from One Stop Deals): this service allows you to set a customized filter to a wide range of Amazon Goldbox deals so as to focus on the deals you need.  The personalized filter includes product category, expire date, keyword etc.   This service currently only supports Amazon US.

Sort by: Amazon Discounted Section (for all countries) will display products in one of the following orders:

  • Bestselling
  • Price: Low to High
  • Price: High to Low
  • Average Customer Review (default)
  • Release Date

Highlight search: Check the box, then you can highlight any word in browser, right click, then choose to search Amazon and eBay at the same time and compare price.  This service works for all countries including US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Italy and Canada, for example, if you are using Amazon France site, then you will automatically compare Amazon.fr and eBay.fr price for the highlighted keyword.

AmaBay: eBay vs. Amazon price comparison

AmaBay is an online service created by Linked8 Apps in 2009 to enable online shoppers to easily compare Amazon and eBay prices for any product for all countries covered by Amazon and eBay.  As its name indicates, AmaBay = Ama(zon) + (e)Bay, its search result combines those of Amazon and eBay for a certain keyword in the same screen.

How to Use AmaBay

You can start comparing prices in either of the following ways:

  1. through browser add-ons (AmabayFox for Firefox and AmabayChrome for Google Chrome), this way is the easiest.  The browser add-ons put a small button on browser toolbar or address bar when you are viewing any eBay or Amazon product page, one click on that button will show you the Amazon or eBay prices for that product or similar products.
  2. through AmaBay website (http://amabay.linked8.com), just like how you search a keyword on Google, you go to AmaBay homepage, enter a keyword, then hit search button, then AmaBay will search Amazon and eBay databases and throws out most relevant products from both Amazon and eBay side by side.

Amazon vs. eBay, price and beyond

AmaBay is both a price research tool and a product research tool.  Using this tool, you can research any product and find interesting differences between Amazon and eBay:

Generally, Amazon is more specialized in branded products, due to this reason, Amazon is more often to be chosen to be the official retail channel for well-known brands, such as Microsoft Zune HD video mp3 player.  In addition, Amazon also offers free shipping on any $25 or greater orders and pays return shipping on items shipped by Amazon.com itself.

eBay is more specialized in non-branded, commodity like products, such as car mp3 player FM transmittter, more often than not you can find better deals on eBay than on Amazon for these products.

However, these guidelines are not true in many cases, eBay can offer unbeatable price on branded products for example, Brother QL-570 label printer, while Amazon could offer great deals on non-brand products such as car charger socket power splitter.  Therefore, you want to use amabay to research any individual product before you conclude which retailer offer the best price.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Amazon prices?

There are four types of Amazon prices:

  • Amazon listing featured price
  • Lowest price for new product
  • Too low to display: you have to go to Amazon.com, add the product to shopping cart to see the price
  • Currently unavailable

What are eBay prices?

eBay prices are the sum of product price and shipping fee.