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Happy Thanksgiving and Damn You Amazon Customers!

Happy Turkey Day! It’s been one hec­tic day already. I don’t know if you have heard about Amazon.com’s new gig, Cus­tomers Vote, but I heard it first from Ryan ear­lier this week. He noted it because of the Xbox 360 deal for only a low-down-and-dirty $100 (core sys­tem). That’s about a $200+ sav­ing from its MSRP.

Any­ways, it was one excit­ing and dis­ap­point­ing morn­ing at the same time. Not only was the deal adver­tised on Amazon.com’s home­page, but it was every­where! I mean every­where as in: radio, vlogs, blogs and maybe even on TV. There were only 1,000 units for the deal, and that ain’t a lot. In terms of internet-store for a deal this great, that’s less than a sec­ond or two in terms of the deal’s lifetime.

Any­ways, enough of my stats talk. I guess the rea­son why I was so upset in not get­ting one (other than I can make a quick $200 or more on ebay if I sell it) is that I got a new toy. I was hop­ing to use the money from the Xbox to feed this new crack, or at least make it free for me so I wouldn’t feel bad about spend­ing some money on “non­sense” items. Then again, it is from Costco.

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Amazon Launches aStore Beta

Amazon aStore Beta

Just received news through the Ama­zon Asso­ciates Team that their aStore has gone to beta. What is it?

aStore vastly expands on our cur­rent link type offer­ings by giv­ing you the abil­ity to build a ded­i­cated shop­ping area that can be embed­ded within, or linked to from, your website.

Build your own pro­fes­sional online store fea­tur­ing Amazon.com prod­ucts in min­utes with no pro­gram­ming skills required. Because aStore is a ded­i­cated shop­ping area for your site, it is a great com­pli­men­tary prod­uct for your exist­ing Ama­zon prod­uct links. Vis­i­tors to your site get a pro­fes­sional shop­ping expe­ri­ence through your unique selec­tion of prod­ucts and cat­e­gories and the fea­tures of Amazon.com you have cho­sen includ­ing Cus­tomer Reviews, List­ma­nia, and more. The check­out process is com­pleted through Amazon.com.

You may view the demo store to see an exam­ple of a stand-alone store.