Amazon Launches’ Deal of the Day’ Text Alert

Amazon has launched a new mobile initiative called Text Alerts for Daily Deals. It lets customers sign up for daily text alerts of Amazon.com’s Deal of the Day, which will be sent directly to their mobile phones.

“Customers can then reply-to-buy with the text command ‘buygb’ or follow the link in the text message to the Amazon mobile Web site to view the full details of the deal and shop other deals in the Gold Box directly from the mobile phone.”

Back in April, Amazon launched TextBuyIt, which lets you text the product name, description, UPC or ISBN to “AMAZON” in order to get more information or even buy it immediately from your cell phone.

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