Amazon Auto Buy lets you set a target price for an item and automatically places the order when the price drops to or below that amount.
How to Use Auto Buy:- Open the Amazon app.
- Browse to the item you want.
- Launch Rufus.
- Say or type: "Buy this item if it hits $XX."
- Confirm the target price when prompted.
- When the item reaches your price, Amazon automatically places the order.
Sample Commands:- "Buy this item if it hits $25."
- "Set a price alert at $40 for this item."
- "Buy it when the price drops below $100." (Alexa+)
- "Buy it when the price drops by 20%." (Alexa+)
- "Manage my Auto Buy requests."
- "Cancel my Auto Buy request."
Notes:- Auto Buy is currently available to Prime members only.
- Only works on items Fulfilled by Amazon.
- Default alert window is 6 months.
- You can only have 1 active Auto Buy request per item and only 1 unit per item.
- Up to 200 active Auto Buy requests total.
- Coupons and promotional discounts do not apply to Auto Buy purchases.
- If you are not viewing an item, you must be specific about which product you mean.
- Rufus on the website allows typed commands, but will ultimately show a message that Auto Buy can only be finalized in the app.
- You can also set up and manage Auto Buy using Alexa+.
- You can cancel the Auto Buy order within 24 hours in Your Orders.
- This is one of the first widely useful, practical features released under the Rufus assistant.
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Additionally they are using their garbage AI to gather valuable data about people are willing to pay for things, they're also going to measure how long the average person will wait for their low ball offer before giving up and buying something for a higher price. Interestingly, we just saw this type of thing happen with the Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro pricing mistake deal from over a month ago - seller pledged to fulfill orders but claimed they were backordered. They are keeping customers in the dark about progress, essentially to shake people out who didn't feel like having their money held for an unknown time. After about a month, people started to give in and ask for refunds - now the seller doesn't have to lose money on those orders, but they get to keep the "good will" of telling people they would fulfill.
I'm not saying this won't be useful for people in the short term maybe, but like all things these companies are doing, it's going to be used to study your behavior and manipulate you. So they want you to use AI to manage this, why? Let's say you are holding out for that lowball $5 order for a $20 bottle of Tide laundry soap. Rufus, cancel my autobuy order. Hello valued cattle, I'm sorry I can't offer you this item at $5, I would be happy to cancel that for you - but good news! I see that you're running low on laundry detergent, so what I can do is offer you this tide for $18, still a good deal, right? Would you like me to place an order for this Tide at $18? They are pushing to use AI to be a salesman to drive up sales. The scary thing is they'll know your shopping behavior and "buy points" better than you do.
That's just my 2c on where I think they're going with this. I'd be interested to see what other people come up with.
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This is one of those obnoxious uses of AI where functional UIs are being replaced by tedious chatbot conversations
Since coupons/promotions are excluded, this isn't really helpful for getting the best prices
SD can't be happy about this either cause it steals their affiliate commission
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