Amazon TextBuyIt: Shop via SMS

Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Mobile Minute

How often have you been out walking your dog when it suddenly occurs to you that you forgot to order the latest Lemony Snicket book? Well, now you can place your order without going to a store or waiting until you home and plop yourself back in front of a computer for the rest of the day. Just pull out your cellphone and send a text message with an item name to AMAZON (262966) thanks to a new Amazon service called TextBuyIt.

While we don't think anyone expects you to do all of your shopping from your phone (especially if you don't have an unlimited data plan), you can search for items by keyword, or ISBN UPC code. That means you can easily check prices on items while you're in a bricks and mortar store. Want to see if that computer, blender, or video game on the shelf is reasonably priced? Just check it out with Amazon.

[via The Associated Press]

Tags: amazon, shopping, textbuyit

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