Buy Stuff on Amazon with a Text Message

Find and buy items from your cell phone with the new Amazon TextBuyIt feature. It works like this: Say you’re out shopping and you see a book you want to buy. You figure you could save a few bucks getting it at Amazon, so you send a text message to ‘AMAZON’ (262966) with the title, author, or even the ISBN code of the book. Amazon sends a text back to you with search results. You pick the result that best matches your search, and an Amazon robot voice calls you with details and asks for purchase confirmation. The first time you try TextBuyIt, you’ll have to link your phone with your account, but from there on Amazon wants to make it easy to find and buy products wherever you are—and hopefully you’ll save some money, too. TextBuyIt is surprisingly easy to use, but if you give it a try, let’s hear your thoughts in the comments.