[Updated] Save 20% on Select Laptops (KSO)

Updated - see comments at end.

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers:

Save 20% on Select Laptops at Amazon.com

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page to receive an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on August 8.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Special Offer page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until September 8 to complete your purchase. 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).

This offer can be used more than once per account, so long as you have more than one KSO registered. Just click on the ad on each device to receive the individual promotion codes via email.

This offer was on the second page of special offers on my KSO, so be sure to click the Next Page button, if you don't see it right away. There are many, many laptops to choose from on this offer and, thankfully, there are links both on the offer page and on the menu bar on the left that can be used to trim down the list to the ones with features you are looking for, starting with the type (PC or Max) and operating system version you want. Once I picked Windows 7, for example, there were more selections for the level (Home Premium, Professional, Starter, Ultimate), along with lots of choices on screen size, processor type/speed, memory installed, etc.

If you were already looking for a laptop/notebook pc, and you find one on the list, this offer can save you quite a bit of money (I saw a little toughbook for over $3200, for example); in fact, it might be worth grabbing a Kindle with Special Offers just to get this offer, as you can easily save more than the cost of the Kindle itself - which means, you could get a savings on the laptop and a new Kindle to send off to college this fall with a student leaving for college. If you were looking at some of the less expensive laptops, you should still see a savings of $80 or more on most (from what I can tell), which is either a nice bonus on a KSO you already own or a good discount on a new one (just send your old one off with the student, if you want to keep the KSO at home, so you can sign up for any future offers!).

Combine this with the offer of $100 off a combined purchase of a Toshiba laptop and a Canon printer and the free XBOX with a Windows 7 PC offer for even greater savings.

Update: I've been getting emails, including personal messages on Kindle forums where I had not even posted about this offer, but had commented once in a KSO thread, asking me for my codes. I won't give my codes away, even if I do not use them and I caution you not to do so, either.

From the rules and restrictions:

• Promotional code must be requested on Kindle with Special Offers device
• You must have a Kindle with Special Offers device registered to the same account as the qualifying purchase.
• Offer is non-transferable and may not be resold.
• If you violate any of the Terms & Conditions, the promotion will be invalid.

So, you must have a KSO to ask for the code, you must have it registered to your account when you use the code, you cannot give the code away or sell it to someone else and if you get caught, at the very least the purchaser of the laptop would be liable for the promotional discount and you both risk losing your Amazon account.

Not worth it (if you are going to save $600 using this code, then buy a KSO today, get it tomorrow, use the code, get your laptop ordered and then decide if you want to send back the KSO in the next few weeks .. or just consider it a free kindle and the discount to be a bit less).

These codes are being sold on ebay - so, that destitute student who asks you for a code, may be a large ebay seller, in reality, who can sell the code with zero risk to his/her own Amazon account, but both you and the person using the code do risk having it suspended. For a person making a one-time laptop purchase, they may not care, but I would not like to lose access to my Kindle archives for such a reason.

For codes that cover Kindle books, you can use your code to gift a book (or, at least, it has worked for some in the past), but I would not give your code to anyone else. If it is mistakenly used for a family member, I'm sure Amazon will forgive it, but giving it to a stranger (or worse, getting caught selling it) may not have as happy a result.