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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Get $20 off Power & Hand Tools when you spend $30 (Selected KSO only)

This offer is for those with selected Kindle Wi-Fi with Special Offers or Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi with Special Offers only. Turn on your wireless, click Menu, Sync & Check for New Items, then on View Special Offers after the sync has completed. You may see this new offer (see comments below):

Get $20 off Power & Hand Tools when you spend $30

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page sign up and get an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on June 21.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Power and Hand Tools page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until July 21 to complete your purchase. Details and terms are on this page. Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code. Also, like all Amazon sales that use promotional codes, if you have a gift card balance, you must use it for the payment (if there is not a sufficient balance, then you can pick which credit card or other payment to use).

Once again, this offer can be used more than once per accounts, so long as you have more than one KSO registered:
4. Limit one promotional code per device.
Just click on the ad on each device to receive the individual promotion codes via email.

Some of you won't see this offer (I didn't), no matter how many KSO's you have on your account. This particular offer was only sent to "selected" customers and their KSO's. So, those customers get the offer on each KSO in their account and the rest of us got left out in the cold. So far, no one seems to know how Amazon chose the customers for the offer. Was it just those who are not Amazon Mom's or Students, only male sounding names, those who made certain purchases in the past? I do know that I've had my KSO WiFi since the beginning and have taken advantage of several of their offers (actually, I've had them all sent to my account, so far, I just haven't used them all). I have bought power tools in the past, just not recently (although I have looked at them recently). I have Prime (but not the $80/year version, which may make some difference) and do spend money at Amazon regularly (heck, so do most Kindle customers, but I also buy other things there). None of that apparently qualified me to get this offer. For those that do get the offer, the codes are non-transferable, according to the rules, so you can't get a code and then give it to someone else with a KSO that didn't get this particular offer.

This harkens back to the uproar when it was discovered that Amazon was showing different prices on books to different customers, based on a formula that took buying habits into account. Those of us that agreed to get the Kindle with Ads and Special Offers did so with the understanding that as compensation for putting up with the ads (and I've put up with a lot of Oil of Olay ads, at this point), we would get Special Offers to make up for it -- and that we would all get the same offers, not that some people would get the "good" offers and others would only get a more limited number of generic offers. It probably won't make much difference for this particular offer, but I suggest emailing (or calling or both!) Kindle support if you didn't get this offer and complain. Everyone should get the same offers and judge for themselves if they want to take advantage of them or not; we all paid the same price and put up with the same ads (technically, those who don't get the selected offers, put up with more ads, as we see the ads more often than the offers, which isn't true for those with additional offers). And, it isn't just this offer: once person just received his KSO last Thursday and when he turned it on, he had only the Tools offer and not the $20 for $10 Gift Certificate offer that it seems everyone else received (and which is promoted on the product page and was promised in an Amazon press release).

At least it looks like I will be getting the $10 off offer on video games and possibly two different offers for a $10 off or gift card on Kindle books (I can see those ads already loaded on the Kindle file structure); the product pages are also still claiming that a "$1 for a Kindle book, choose from thousands of books" offer is coming up at some point, as well, so we will hopefully all get that one (even if it won't work on an Agency title).