You never know that place is addictive .. Those gold box deals sucker me into buy tons of stuff i dint know i needed , seriously ..

jonthomasdesigns

I can't think of a time when I ever wished for the ability to buy something from Amazon with my cell phone.

dl__

I've tried to use TextBuyIt twice today with no response. I imagine the problem is that I have Cincinnati Bell as my provider. As far as I can tell this service won't be supported for me, much like Twitter shortcodes. Unfortunate.

Jaysus

This seems like a good idea but hard to promote. Definitely a better way to buy/sell via mobile phone than requiring a data connection and marginally difficult to navigate mobile pages.

The thing I'd be most curious about from people that have used it or test it out is if you can purchase multiple products at once or if the $25 "Free shipping" feature works at all.

Insomnic

This is actually pretty good idea, tho with limited real usefulness, yet I can think of a specific example -- when classes start each semester, I get a list of books I need to buy, so before TextToBuy, I'd go to the school bookstore(s) and check the new and used prices, and would then check half.com and amazon from my phone (assuming I got reception down there) -- almost every time the book was cheaper through amazon, so this could easily help students who don't have a data plan, but want to check prices at amazon (and potentially buy the books) before paying the (almost always more expensive) prices at the campus book store

jrinco11

@heavylee-again: If they call you *every* time you make a purchase, I don't see an issue with it.

Diet-Orange-Soda

I can't tell you how many times I've walked the aisles of Best Buy telling my wife "don't by that, Amazon probably has it $5 cheaper." If I can combine this with a gold account, I can see myself using it every time I want to buy something at a B&M.

Diet-Orange-Soda

Does anyone else see opportunity for fraudulent purchases with the 'feature'?

heavylee-again

Cool idea, though w/ my iPhone and an Amazon Prime account, I find using the Beta iPhone formatted Amazon.com via mobile Safari to be a much more intuitive / informative way to go; this way you get pictures, item description, and customer reviews.

tomahawk360

i wish they gave an option to receive them as pic messages. some descriptions just don't help.

if you have a data plan, definately open opera or something else to get to amazon.

dmoola

Great idea although it could be very bad news for my pocketbook.

StacyF

I often see books in bookstores that I then look up at home on the library or in various online bookstores. But this gives Amazon too much of an edge in my opinion -- to be able to buy a book from them while standing in another bookstore. Something just feels wrong about it. I would NEVER do this in an independently owned bookstore -- maybe B&N or Borders.

Of course I do have the Amazon to library bookmarklet in my browser, which one might say gives the library an unfair advantage over Amazon.

superdewa

Does not appear to work with U.S. Cellular. Bummer. However, I can always check prices with Frucall.com. They have SMS and an 800 number to use for price checking, although I barely end up using it.

abkad

This is amazing for in-store price-checks. Let's just leave it at that.

IamTCM

I would NEVER buy anything with a text message.

Lawk Salih

Sounds like the perfect way to make loosing your phone even more painful. After becoming associated with your Amazon account, it allows you to just buy stuff? So someone who walks away with my phone immediately can buy a bunch of crap and bill it to me?

I'm lucky I don't know how to text message. :)

stopsineman

In store price checks...deal..

linked for good through the phone? bad

Ashley927