How does Amazon decide where to sell the Kindle? [more inside]
posted by blue mustard on Dec 13, 2009 - 16 answers

I would like to ship a gift to my family secret santa from amazon.com, but I can't figure out how to do it anonymously. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Dec 3, 2009 - 12 answers

How can I to Amazon to ship to my door? Amazon always used to ship UPS which delivered right to my door. I'm in a rural area, 7 miles from the post office. Lately, they ship via USPS which does not deliver to my door but to a roadside box half a mile from my door. [more inside]
posted by NorthCoastCafe on Nov 3, 2009 - 18 answers

I'm trying to figure out how to create a XML / RSS feed of my Amazon web store products so I can update to Google Merchant. There doesn't seem to be many functions / plug-ins offered by AWS and their help isn't very helpful. I've done a fair amount of searching and have come up empty handed. Would anyone have an idea how I might go about creating this feed?
posted by Aegean on Oct 30, 2009 - 0 answers

Amazon.com discount search? JungleCrazy, a site that shows Amazon items with at least a 70% discount, has gone offline. Are there any other sites that let me search by discounts?
posted by Sufi on Oct 27, 2009 - 6 answers

I'm looking for a step by step recipe for log rotation from a web server to Amazon S3. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 22, 2009 - 7 answers

Is Amazon WebPay truly a free money transfer solution, or are there hidden costs I'm not seeing? [more inside]
posted by drkrdglo on Oct 22, 2009 - 9 answers

How can I sell books without much effort? [more inside]
posted by k8t on Oct 5, 2009 - 23 answers

Does anyone know of Greasemonkey script for to add Spotify links to Amazon.co.uk pages? [more inside]
posted by feelinglistless on Oct 4, 2009 - 1 answer

I am looking for a Greasemonkey script or Firefox add-on that will show me the shipping cost for Amazon third-party items in search results. [more inside]
posted by IndigoRain on Sep 16, 2009 - 3 answers

Is there anything similar to Mechanical Turk on the Internet? [more inside]
posted by VC Drake on Aug 25, 2009 - 5 answers

How can I get Amazon UK to quit sending me flyers with my purchases? [more inside]
posted by Solomon on Aug 16, 2009 - 7 answers

An eBay seller is threatening to file a complaint against me for not leaving feedback. What should I do? [more inside]
posted by marchismo on Aug 15, 2009 - 41 answers

How do I get the most out of my Kindle? [more inside]
posted by CrazyLemonade on Aug 11, 2009 - 2 answers

How would I go about hosting a website (I have my own .com domain) on Amazon S3 (two files, one html and one css)? Is this even possible?
posted by nam3d on Jul 21, 2009 - 5 answers

Amazon incorrectly charged a little-used credit card $79 and we stupidly missed it for a few months. What's the best way to deal with the credit card company and Amazon? [more inside]
posted by Fuzzy Dunlop on Jul 20, 2009 - 10 answers

Sold an old textbook on Amazon. Buyer asks for expedited shipping, willing to pay extra. Turns out shipping address is in my town. I offer to meet, or ship. No responses. Suddenly my trick knee is twitching. [more inside]
posted by Fortnight Bender on Jul 13, 2009 - 18 answers

Travelling in the Amazon rainforest (hot and wet), Patagonia (cold and wet) and everything in between during September to November ... what shoes to wear? [more inside]
posted by tobtoh on Jul 4, 2009 - 4 answers

I'm looking for blogs about new non-fiction books on the Kindle. [more inside]
posted by aheckler on Jun 28, 2009 - 2 answers

The book I just received from Amazon is covered in ants, which have now infested my mailbox (and my nightmares). What to do, whom to contact? [more inside]
posted by thebazilist on Jun 24, 2009 - 34 answers

Instead of retroactively applying a promotion, Amazon had me repurchase a wristwatch and wants me to return the old one. Should I just return the new one? [more inside]
posted by Garak on May 22, 2009 - 5 answers

Is there a simple way to integrate Salesforce and Mechanical Turk? Any tips on using Mechanical Turk and Salesforce at work?
posted by brokekid on May 11, 2009 - 4 answers

Help me spend my $100 Mechanical Turk credit !?! I have about $100 credit with Amazon's MT system and I haven't used the service for about a year. I just don't need it for anything. If you know what Mechanical Turk is (see here or here if not) please tell me how you would blow through $100 just for fun (or good use or charity or save-the-planet, etc.)
posted by Xhris on May 6, 2009 - 6 answers

Googlepages webhosting shuts down in June. Help me find a replacement. Requirements: free/almost free, no ads, javascript, css, custom html upload, at least 50Mb storage. Would Amazon S3 work? [more inside]
posted by nolnar on May 2, 2009 - 13 answers

How many books (titles, not editions or book pages) are available on Amazon? [more inside]
posted by Toekneesan on Mar 31, 2009 - 3 answers

I want to put some code on my site (Wordpress) displaying images of books and other Amazon products, and link the images, with my Associates key, back to Amazon. Amazon offers several ways to do this. I don't like them. A batch of WP plugins offer to do this, but the ones I've tested are all overkill, if they actually work. I can handle the code, but where do I get the images? I've seen a few sites that pull book cover images from a secure image site at Amazon. How does that work?
posted by justcorbly on Mar 31, 2009 - 5 answers

Why are there used books for sale on amazon for far more than amazon sells them for? [more inside]
posted by srboisvert on Mar 27, 2009 - 10 answers

Is there a pared down, simplified version of amazon.com available anywhere? Right now whenever I go there I'm irritated by the fact that 90% of every page is noise. I want to browse, search and generally shop, and I don't mind 'stuff other people who bought this bought' and reviews, but I don't want to see a huge long page with all this other stuff on it.
posted by jcruelty on Mar 23, 2009 - 11 answers

Can I trust the retailers on amazon.com selling me discounted car audio components? [more inside]
posted by skechada on Mar 4, 2009 - 9 answers

I bought a Kindle 2. Amazon lists a paltry selection of covers and skins. I want a good one. [more inside]
posted by dbgrady on Feb 16, 2009 - 6 answers

Social Media Retail filter: I'm trying to find examples of "best in show" social retail sites. Think "Facebook" meets "hot or not" but for rating apparel and house/home goods (for example). Bonus points if they offer the ability to follow particular users that have a good eye for style/trends that you find appealing, similar functionality to how you follow a user's feed on Twitter. [more inside]
posted by xotis on Feb 9, 2009 - 4 answers

I didn't get a used book from a seller on Amazon . . . but if I use the A to Z guarantee then they take my money back from her, right? But what if she really sent it? [more inside]
posted by lblair on Feb 3, 2009 - 13 answers

When I was 12, I did a good number of product reviews on Amazon. 10 years later, I'm embarrassed that someone might find my glowing reviews of (ugh) Eminem and Smash Mouth. I want to delete that Amazon profile (and subsequently all of the reviews), but I don't have the e-mail or password for that account--I wrote those back in the 28.8kbps dial-up days. NO RECOLLECTION WHATSOEVER. What can I do to get that account deleted? [more inside]
posted by AlbatrossJones on Jan 25, 2009 - 20 answers

How to format an Amazon Associates link? [more inside]
posted by deeper red on Jan 20, 2009 - 3 answers

I recently received a counterfeit laptop battery from a marketplace seller on Amazon. Now the seller has requested that I remove my negative feedback, claiming that he was the victim of a dodgy supplier. Should I? [more inside]
posted by adamsc on Dec 29, 2008 - 17 answers

OK, hypothetical situation: you've spent a long time building a huge collection of electronic music CDs (several thousand.) Some of them are "rare" and most of them are "meaningful" but now that you've moved to beatport, torrents & all digital files, real CDs just don't have the same value to you that they used to. And for that matter, there's probably very few albums you couldn't find again if you spent a little time. At what point do you finally say, "I no longer need dozens of boxes filled with CDs I used to love?" I just reached that point myself. It's time to purge ... but I don't know how to do it! [more inside]
posted by SteveEisner on Dec 12, 2008 - 34 answers

How do you take a screenshot on the Kindle? I know the keystroke, but can't find the screenshot file anywhere. [more inside]
posted by mark7570 on Dec 9, 2008 - 5 answers

Amazon healing plants. Who is the expert? [more inside]
posted by watercarrier on Dec 9, 2008 - 7 answers

In working through a tutorial for Amazon's Simple Storage Service, I'm stuck on two steps. The first step is to base64-encode my policy file... and the second step is to generate a signature value (SHA-1 HMAC) with my Amazon Secret Access key as a password. Am I going about it correctly? [more inside]
posted by avoision on Oct 11, 2008 - 3 answers

i want to live/work with indigenous peoples in the amazon, write literature, and honor my immigrant parents by avoiding a hedonistic/freewheeling lifestyle. how do i do all these things? [more inside]
posted by jiayeeng on Sep 7, 2008 - 19 answers

I have a three person Mac OS X office where we need to have remote access to about 4GB of files. I have looked around extensively for a solution and so far have not found an acceptable one. We have tried to use Back to my Mac and Apple Remote Desktop but the other two users are not that technically adept and it seem too complicated for them. Out problem is further complicated by the fact that we sometimes access the same files, so we can have version problems as well. Back to my Mac has never worked period. Could I use Amazon S3 storage? And manage with Subversion or Git? Are there reasonable clients for Subversion and Git. Drobo with network card seem over the top and too costly. Having the files on the cloud would be a perfect solution, however a local solution that could be accessed from anywhere will work as well. To further complicate we are thinking of having one person access via PC.
posted by thinktwice on Aug 19, 2008 - 7 answers

Book-blog hosting: Is there a free and easy blog host that allows me to use my own Amazon affiliate links? [more inside]
posted by RogerB on Aug 18, 2008 - 10 answers

Any Non-U.S. users of Amazon's Kindle (or other E-reader) out there? Can you tell me how it's working out for you? I'm trying to decide whether to splurge for my birthday, and really don't want to invest that much money in a mistake. [more inside]
posted by taz on Aug 9, 2008 - 14 answers

Anyone know of a good PHP library that will allow me to pull cover art images from Amazon? [more inside]
posted by CXImran on Jul 25, 2008 - 6 answers

How to read PDF files on Amazon Kindle? [more inside]
posted by omaralarifi on Jul 21, 2008 - 6 answers

Have you utilized Mechanical Turk workers for anything even remotely complicated? Were you satisfied with the results? [more inside]
posted by cog_nate on Jul 15, 2008 - 4 answers

How can I use Amazon Mechanical Turk outside the U.S.? [more inside]
posted by Carl Mentor on Jul 11, 2008 - 11 answers

Is it possible to run a search at Amazon that excludes "Used and new" items? [more inside]
posted by roofus on Jul 3, 2008 - 7 answers

Legitimizing iTunes Library. I have *ahem* a friend. This friend has a reasonably large digital music collection being managed by iTunes on a Mac. He would like to understand the cost of ensuring this collection is 100% legal, having realized that the vast majority of it is not. [more inside]
posted by superfurry on Jun 20, 2008 - 12 answers

I'm thinking of buying a laptop, and find that at sites like CNET, the editors and users often disagree wildly. I haven't found a place that reviews laptops that can sort reviews by the users' rankings. I tried amazon, but their "sort by average customer review" doesn't work. Which sites do you like? [more inside]
posted by lukemeister on Jun 18, 2008 - 13 answers