Amazon Friday Sale 1/25/2002

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Amazon has some good deals in its Friday Sale. Use a coupon to save more. Free shipping on $99+ for most items.

Krups 889-45 Orchestro Espresso Machine for $599.99, was $799
Hamilton Beach 54250 14-Speed BlendMaster Ultra Blender for $19.99
Fiestaware Cinnabar 475 Minidisk Pitcher for $4.79
Sabatier Elite 12-Piece Stainless Steel Knife Set w/ Block $24.99
Refurb DeWalt 24-Volt Heavy-Duty 1/2" Drill/Hammerdrill Kit for $208.99.

 

[JohnnyPastrami]

Me? I'm going for the Ultimate Demolition Fireman's Battle Axe]




Here's Johnny....


Edit: Links removed, shirking away in shame...

Someone educate me on how to link this without the referral

 

[ieee]

johny got a referral linky...

tisk tisk..

 

[JohnnyPastrami]

<< johny got a referral linky...

tisk tisk.. >>



Oops, sorry that one slipped by.

 

[Collije]

Ugh...Ben's Bargains referral? :disgust:

 

[Collije]

No worries Johnny.

For post-worthy links, I usually go straight to Amazon.com myself (not through someone else's link found on a deals site), & then navigate to that item. Amazon loves to add their own session-ID codes in there (especially if you're set to automatically log into Amazon like I am). So, I delete a good chunk of the URL to only include what looks to be the item ID only (the URL formatting tends to be different on each retail site). So, it's a matter of trial & error.

Here's your Battle Axe example:

When you 1st access Amazon & navigate to the item (I used the search function to find it), I got this URL:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000051XJH/qid=1011972781/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_67_1/103-4003556-5297440

After looking at the URL, I see the "ref" embedded in the URL. I go one further & then try to figure out what identifies the Item ID in the URL. So I try deleting everything after "B000051XJH" in the browser's address bar. Trying it out, the page still refreshes, but with some excess:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000051XJH/103-4003556-5297440

So...you can guess that since the page reloaded fine (although it added its own little addendum to the URL), I simply use this in my post:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000051XJH/


Hope this helps!

 

[getmeadeal]

Thanks Collije

When directly visiting http://www.amazon.com you're going to get something like the "ref=sr_8_67_1/103-4003556-5297440" link Collije mentioned. It's easy to say that is not a affiliate link, and feel safe posting it, but there are affiliate links that can look just like it. Example:


1. Amazon makes things easy by allowing affiliates to basically choose their own affiliate ID, and to drop their ID right on the end of most page links on their sites. Most sites' affiliate IDs are extremely easy to spot, as they tend to have a descriptive ID. This would be a fully-functional referral link, were there such a site (although that description aptly describes many of them):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/XXXXXXX/unoriginalbargains

2. Even after clicking on that hypothetical link and visiting that page, it will still be relatively easy to identify that it's an affiliate link. It would appear like this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/XXXXXXX/ref=ase_unoriginalbargains/104-2787124-0371960

3. From there, it becomes difficult. Leave that page, and the affiliates' friendly ID drops off the link and becomes coded:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...-/tech-data/ref=e_de_a_td/104-2787124-0371960

4. This means an affiliate could conceivably loop back around to the original product page and maintain the referral without anyone being the wiser. It would simply look like this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/XXXXXXX/104-2787124-0371960


So remember kids: ALWAYS hack everthing off after the ASIN number. It's easy, it's safe, and it works...and never run while holding scissors.

 

[JohnnyPastrami]

Thanks guys...

Makes sense now.