Amazon promotional codes, discount codes, offers, deals and savings below....

There are thousands of people out there making a fantastic living off of selling their products or second hand items on the Amazon marketplace. Amazon gives any one and everyone the opportunity to make money online by selling on their second hand goods to the long list of amazon customers via the platform called Amazon Marketplace. How it works is you can submit details of goods that you are trying to sell and upload them to Amazon directly. They then take the price you have entered as your asking price and publish it next to the brand new version of the same product. So when a customer is browsing and let's say in this instance they are looking for a certain DVD. If you have added a copy of that DVD to Amazon Marketplace for sale for just £2.99 then your price will appear next to the current price for a new copy. Why would Amazon do such a thing? Well because they take a fee from the total selling price of your DVD, which believe it or not probably makes them a similar amount of money to a full priced new DVD sale with free delivery. 

One of the major drivers behind Amazon as a company is to be able to offer consumers choice. Not just the choice over what product they want to buy or what delivery option they want, but the choice to say whether or not they want to buy a product brand new or second hand. It really is a great way to add even more value to their already informative product detail pages.

If you have items your are looking to sell then why not go for it by signing up to the Amazon Marketplace. If you don't feel comfortable with taking the leap of faith just yet, then why not make a small purchase of a product available on the Marketplace. This way you can get an idea for how it works and even contact the seller directly after the sale has gone through and ask them how they find the experience of selling through the marketplace. Essentially it's eBay without the auction steps and the huge seller fee's, so why not give it a go?

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Sites like Amazon are perfect for the regular online shopper. They make life so easy to make repeat purchases by holding onto payment information, delivery details and even the past products you looked at and may still have an interest in. It really does take the legwork out of buying any product online!

But as someone once said in a Spiderman film “With great power comes great responsibility”. This is especially prevalent in the case of such a powerful website like Amazon who spend millions making sure that there website is as secure as possible! They have to, its their business and reputation at stake!

The article is here to warn you about to more that likely possibility that you will be faced with a fraudulent version of Amazon in your Internet lifetime. it may not be today and it may not be tomorrow, but the chance of your landing on it is highly likely, so be aware. Fraudsters across the globe are replicating the log in pages of sites, just like Amazon, and capturing your sensitive user information. They then have access to all your past purchases, your delivery and address details as well as your precious payment information. This could cost you dearly and is information that is worth a lot to these guys. Once they have your log in details they can change your delivery address and email and order away. They could even change your password and who knows how long it is going to be before you realise and have your bankcard cancelled. See what I mean, very very costly.

So how can you prevent such a thing from happening to you? Follow these key rules and you will be just fine:

− Never click on an Amazon link in an email, this could be masked and take you to a page that looks like Amazon but is just there to capture your log in details

− Never click on a link that looks similar to an Amazon link but not 100% - these guys are fraudsters and will create links with just 1 character difference so be aware.

− If someone you trust sends you and Amazon link, find out what the product is or why they are sending it to you – then go to Amazon directly by typing their actually address in your browser and searching for the product from their

− Finally, always make sure you have a virus software running on your machine that can protect you from nasty things like this on the internet, but be sure to just use them as a detection tool, don’t rely on them to highlight every single dodgy page out there in the internet, you must always use your own perception to stay out of trouble.

If by some freak mistake you realise you just submitted your Amazon logins into a dodgy page, alert Amazon at once and log back in and close your account! Remove all payment and delivery details as soon as possible and tell Amazon to shut the account as it has been hacked.

It’s a jungle out there, be careful!

Finding a code for Amazon is almost as easy as finding a needle in a haystack. Yes thats right, almost as EASY as finding a needle in a haystack, because these amazon codes are like gold dust. They are rarely released by the mighty A, but when they are, they are a sight to behold. The average online shopper will be bowled over by the awesome deals that can be found online at Amazon, but for some of us, these discounts just aren't enough, we want more. And we will get more! How? By hunting out one of the revered Amazon Promotional Codes. 

But this article is not here to hand over the tricks of the trade just yet, you will have to wait for part 2 for that. This article is merely the prelude to what could be the biggest secret on the internet, so make sure you check back for the real juicy, money saving, discount getting, coin collecting tips and tricks of part 2. While you are here though, we're going to talk about the different types of Amazon discount codes there are available, so you know what you are looking for. There are 4 main types of codes outlined below:

1) The straight up % or £ off promotional code - this code is one of the old skool classics and dates back to the days the internet began trading as a ecommerce platform. This type of code simply gives you a set amount off when applied, for example, enter the code AMAZON10 at the checkout to get 10% off your total order value, really straight forward. This type of promotional code can also be used to deduct a monetary value off, eg use this code and get £5 off your total order value.

2) The spend and save codes - these types of codes are extremely clever, and not only provide us, the consumers, with a great money saving opportunity, but also allow the retailer in this case Amazon, to increase their average basket values above the standard by increasing the minimum spend tiers attached to the codes. Let me give you an example: Imagine a spend and save promotional code structure that looked like this:

Use AMAZON5 to get 5% off all orders over £30

Use AMAZON7 to get 7% off all orders over £40

Use AMAZON8 to get 8% off all orders over £60

Use AMAZON10 to get 10% off all orders over £70

In this example it is more than likely that the AMAZON10 code will experience the highest redemption rates therefore lifting the Amazon average basket value from its normal £47 pounds to anything over £70. These codes really do help us save a lot of money, but as you can see from the fictitious code structure described above, they also make a considerable amount of incremental revenue for the retailer.

3) Free delivery codes - Free delivery codes are one of the most common types of voucher code in the marketplace today. They do exactly what is said on the tin, use the code at the checkout of the Amazon.co.uk website and get free delivery on any order. Amazon have used this type of code in the past to stay inline with Play.com who automatically apply free delivery to all UK orders. In some cases this code will come with a minimum spend, for example get free deliver y on all orders over £50 when using this voucher code. Again the retailer has the power to increase the minimum spend on this type of code to increase their average order value per transaction.

4) Product specific codes - The product specific discount codes are quite common, but are also not highly regarded by the discount code professionals out there. They are good at what they do, but what they do is not that good, if thats makes any sense. For example, Amazon may offer £1 off the new James Bond DVD. This is still a nice little money saver, but not exactly ground breaking, and to be honest, you could probably find a bigger discount on a product basis just by hitting a few of Amazons competitors ie HMV, Play, Zavvi, The Hut etc.

To summarize, Amazon promotional codes are a great way for us to save money, but they also serve a big big purpose to Amazon, not only will they allow them to monitor the redemption rates of a successful code, providing them with invaluable market research, they also to allow them to keep tight control on their margins whilst appearing to make generous discounts their entire product base. Whatever you think about discount codes, we love them so stick around for part 2 of hunting for the perfect amazon promotional code.