Amazon Dash Button

@PurplePawprints Apparently I read it only works for the first push and you can set minimum ordering intervals. However, this seems April Foolish to me..

May or may not ne. I personally wouldn't want to use it.

@juststephen I'm so hoping it's that April 1 thing.

@juststephen Dammit. I completely forgot that April Fool's Day is tomorrow. Seems like I need to stay off the internet for the next 30+ hours. Also, I did read that about the 'first push only' thing, but if this were real, and you had enough of them around the house, the kids could still spend enough to get you in trouble. At least, they could here (not that my kids would do it) because our account often runs low toward the end of a pay period.

@PurplePawprints this doesn't register as a 4/1 prank to me. it's a completely reasonable product as far as technology and production goes, and it would let amazon into huge deals with brand names.

@PurplePawprints Ah, but there are fail safes built in. You automatically get an email telling you that you ordered, you can cancel from that email. Also, Amazon only recognizes the first button push, until your order arrives.

@juststephen As someone who works at Amazon, I assure you it is not an April fools day joke. As far as I know, Amazon has NEVER done an April Fool's Day joke. We are too customer centric for that; the chance of offending an alienating one or more customers isn't worth it.

@grum Well there is today's main page ... sort of. Also, there's some good irony in the 1-star review for this shirt.

@narfcake I stand corrected.

Wasn't / isn't there a refrigerator that auto-magically generated a shopping list based on the weight of the container on the shelf in the door? You had to assign the item (milk, juice, etc.) and then as it was used it would alert you to replenish . . .

@Foxborn You could probably do that with NFC tags. They've been mentioned here before, though I've done nothing with this knowledge since then: https://meh.com/forum/topics/cobra-joyride-smart-charger#54b0b73c8d3d7fb0074b36cd

@ssiemonsma Not an April's fools joke - been reported in mainstream media for a couple days. If it is a joke they've got very reputable news outlets to play along.

@ssiemonsma Bluetooth only to setup the button. After that, it remains completely off until you click the button, at which time it will connect to your WiFi, send the single request to Amazon, then turn off.

@cengland0 I think that the items supported for this service are items that Amazon either guarantees will be in stock or, if on the off chance that they aren't, Amazon would let the customer know before charging them. (Related, the list of Amazon Dash Button items: http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=11267118011)

@grum It's not about if it's in stock or not. I don't want them charging me $20 for a container of Tide when I know I can get it cheaper elsewhere. Amazon does not always have the best prices and I like to do my due diligence before making purchases.

@cengland0 ... and that's exactly why they want folks to use this button. Like almost all retailers, Amazon would rather everyone just order more stuff without checking elsewhere.

@cengland0 Ah, I see. I just know that most of Amazon's price fluctuation occurs due to Amazon themselves running out of goods and automatically switching the displayed price to the next cheapest third-party sellers'. Amazon price fluctuation may still be an issue, I would imagine. I guess the dash button is for people who really don't give a shit about what they pay in the end, as long as it gets there. =P

@grum that has not been my experience. We have 5 pages of 'saved for later' items so refreshing the cart shows price changed items. Most price changes I see are for goods sold by Amazon. And, while the price changes are often by pennies, they can be very dramatic, like from $19 to $27 and back. I'd never price-blind-buy from Amazon.

@cinoclav You would think that but then again same could be said about having an amazon app on your phone. Personally I stopped caring what other people think of America. Let them be all judgey (is that a word?) If I was in Norway and someone asks "What do American's think of us?" My answer is ummm... I like Lillyhammer?

@StrangerDanger My answer would be, "Beautiful blondes."