You Can Search Amazon for Amazon!
A few days ago I was lamenting the inability to search Amazon.com for products sold by Amazon rather than by third party vendors who charge more for shipping and have a decidedly fly-by-night feeling to them. Thankfully, Lori points out that it is sort of possible:
Many of the Amazon.com store categories let you refine your search in the left column. As you refine, you’ll get an option to limit results “By Seller”. Choose Amazon.com to limit your results to the items sold by Amazon.
You have to search for something, say routers, then choose to limit your search to a category, say Electronics, and then you’re given the option to limit your search by vendor to Amazon.
I wish this were a little bit more transparent and that you didn’t have to first narrow your search to a category before you can filter by vendor (why doesn’t Amazon have some sort of Advanced Search option?) but its definitely better than nothing.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:54 am
This did not work for me today. Although the search also didn’t rank correctly, so maybe the whole engine was messed up.
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