Comments on: Amazon M-Commerce: Introducing Text-Buy-It http://www.getelastic.com/amazon-text-buy-it/ #1 Subscribed Ecommerce Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: crowdstormhttp://www.getelastic.com/amazon-text-buy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-13335 crowdstorm Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:36:46 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/amazon-text-buy-it/#comment-13335 I think this is an exciting development, but I can't help thinking it would be better used for products other than books. Whilst it would be convenient to order books that way, I would have thought that most people could wait until they were at a computer to order one. Using it for things airline tickets seems a lot more logical to me - it would make this a lot more convenient! I think this is an exciting development, but I can’t help thinking it would be better used for products other than books. Whilst it would be convenient to order books that way, I would have thought that most people could wait until they were at a computer to order one. Using it for things airline tickets seems a lot more logical to me – it would make this a lot more convenient!

]]> By: Eddie Chanhttp://www.getelastic.com/amazon-text-buy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-13333 Eddie Chan Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:18:19 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/amazon-text-buy-it/#comment-13333 This is pretty awesome (moreso for Amazon, not-so-much for brick-and-mortar retailers). Amazon's actually been pushing the mobile initiative for a while now. Back in 2004, they introduced "Amazon Scan Service" in Japan, allowing consumers to take a picture of a product's barcode with their cellphone camera, send that barcode to Amazon, get the product details, and then have the option of purchasing said item - http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/amazon-japan-cell-phone-fancypants-service-026198.php And now, they've developed new 2-dimension barcodes that mobile phones can decrypt on their own - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/business/01code.html?ex=1333080000&en=8bb1180541c7a895&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "In Japan, some highway billboards have codes large enough for passing motorists to read them with their phones. Hospitals put them on prescriptions, allowing pharmacies to instantly scan the medical information rather than read it. Supermarkets stick them on meat and egg packaging to give expiration dates and even the names of the farmers who produced them. One of the most popular uses in Japan has been paperless airline tickets. About 10 percent of the people who take domestic flights of All Nippon Airways now use the codes on their cellphones instead of printed tickets. Yasuko Nishigai, 22, used her cellphone recently to buy a ticket from Tokyo to the Japanese tropical island of Okinawa. To board her flight, she waved the code on her cellphone screen over a scanner. “I didn’t use a single piece of paper, just my phone,” she said." Pretty exciting :) This is pretty awesome (moreso for Amazon, not-so-much for brick-and-mortar retailers).

Amazon’s actually been pushing the mobile initiative for a while now. Back in 2004, they introduced “Amazon Scan Service” in Japan, allowing consumers to take a picture of a product’s barcode with their cellphone camera, send that barcode to Amazon, get the product details, and then have the option of purchasing said item – http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/amazon-japan-cell-phone-fancypants-service-026198.php

And now, they’ve developed new 2-dimension barcodes that mobile phones can decrypt on their own – http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/business/01code.html?ex=1333080000&en=8bb1180541c7a895&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

“In Japan, some highway billboards have codes large enough for passing motorists to read them with their phones. Hospitals put them on prescriptions, allowing pharmacies to instantly scan the medical information rather than read it. Supermarkets stick them on meat and egg packaging to give expiration dates and even the names of the farmers who produced them.

One of the most popular uses in Japan has been paperless airline tickets. About 10 percent of the people who take domestic flights of All Nippon Airways now use the codes on their cellphones instead of printed tickets.

Yasuko Nishigai, 22, used her cellphone recently to buy a ticket from Tokyo to the Japanese tropical island of Okinawa. To board her flight, she waved the code on her cellphone screen over a scanner.

“I didn’t use a single piece of paper, just my phone,” she said.”

Pretty exciting :)

]]> By: Linda Bustoshttp://www.getelastic.com/amazon-text-buy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-13331 Linda Bustos Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:13:32 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/amazon-text-buy-it/#comment-13331 Here's a nice review of the service from Whitney Hess, complete with screenshots http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/04/text-message-your-order-to-amazon/ Here’s a nice review of the service from Whitney Hess, complete with screenshots
http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/04/text-message-your-order-to-amazon/

]]> By: CommerceStylehttp://www.getelastic.com/amazon-text-buy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-13329 CommerceStyle Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:23:53 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/amazon-text-buy-it/#comment-13329 I think this is great for checking prices while out and about to make sure you aren't getting ripped off when you buy something at a brick and motor store. But I'm not sure that I would follow through with the purchase right then and there. To me it just makes more sense to wait till you get home and place the order on the website. Just my opinion. I think this is great for checking prices while out and about to make sure you aren’t getting ripped off when you buy something at a brick and motor store. But I’m not sure that I would follow through with the purchase right then and there.

To me it just makes more sense to wait till you get home and place the order on the website.

Just my opinion.

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