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"Amazon is the ultimate online shopping destination that sells pretty much everything you can think of, ranging from books to furniture. The appeal of the digital superstore is simple: it's a one-stop shop with fast delivery options and many discounted items. To make the most of your Amazon shopping experience, follow these money-saving tips.\n\nFreebies: Take advantage of the free eBooks you can download from the Kindle store, and if you're an Amazon Prime member, remember to borrow books from Amazon's lending library. The library has over 145,000 titles you can borrow.\nUsed items: The online retailer has a good selection of used goods that you can buy from third-party sellers. Save on the item you want by checking out the used options. Be sure to pick the Amazon reseller carefully and factor in the shipping costs to the total.\nConsider Amazon Prime: If you buy a lot of items from Amazon, you should consider the $79 a year membership called Amazon Prime, which gives you free two-day shipping and access to freebies like the lending library and free streaming of movies and TV shows. This would be worth your money if you find yourself often opting for the fastest delivery options, or if it will cost more for you to go to a brick-and-mortar store to buy the item.\nShare Amazon Prime: If the cost of Amazon Prime is too high, split the cost by sharing the service with others. You can add up to four \"household\" members by following these instructions. Amazon doesn't define what a \"household\" member means, so it's left to your discretion.\nFree Super Saver shipping: If you're not in a rush and don't have Amazon Prime, wait until your shopping cart has at least $25 worth of goods so you qualify for the free Super Saver shipping. It will deliver your items in five to eight business days after the items are available for shipping.\nSubscription services: Constantly ordering the same items every month? To save money, you should consider ordering through the Subscribe &amp; Save program, which will give you a discounted price and automatically ship the product to you on a regular schedule.\nTrack the prices: If there's an item you want to purchase at a lower cost, use the site CamelCamelCamel to keep an eye on the price. You can set alerts that will notify you via email or Twitter when the price of the item drops.\n\nShop the sales: There are plenty of deals available at Amazon. Check out its Today's Deals page to see what items are currently on sale.\nThe Gold Box Deal showcases one item that Amazon offers an extra discount on every day. There's also the Lightning Deal that offers coupon savings on an item for just four hours. Be sure to check out a section in the Today's Deal page that will take you to the best deals at Amazon. Also, when Friday comes around, there is the Friday Sale, which offers discounts on over a hundred items for just one day.\nAnother place to find bargains on Amazon would be the outlet shopping page where you can score outlet deals.\n\nTake advantage of warehouse deals: Amazon has a section called Warehouse Deals where you'll see the open-box, like-new, and refurbished items at deep discounts. Amazon verifies that the items returned by other people are in working order before putting them up for sale as a warehouse deal.\nVia SavvySugar\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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