Amazon.com goldbox?
 

Does anybody know anything about this goldbox at amazon.com? Is everybody getting the same offer or are these customer specific? I got an offer for a camera, binoculars, and a CD player. Nothing I really want. I guess I will check back after 24 hours.


Jerry

I signed in with 2 different accounts and got different items except for 1 (a rice cooker). I might be wrong but my guess is they have a certain number of items, and then randomly pick from that when you click. Most of the prices weren't that great (15-40% off) anyway.

Lots of repeats, looks like a limited selection.

An occasional good deal (I GOT a three cup rice cooker), but definitely hit or miss.

I just noticed this for the first time five minutes ago. Nothing I wanted, seems like a neat feature though. How often do we get new offers in our gold box?

Your Gold Box™ offers are currently unavailable.
You can access your Gold Box once every 24 hours. If you've already viewed your daily offers or made a Gold Box purchase, you'll have to wait for your timer to reset before seeing a new set of offers.

You get 5 a day....

mostly kitchen/appliance type items i've seen.

no dvds or books so far....

I want a good camera offer.

There won't be any media related items (CDs, DVDs or Books) in the Goldbox for now.

Check out this CNet article on the Amazon Goldbox:

http://news.com.com/2100-1017-934048.html

too bad, because that's what I usually buy from amazon... guess the point is to try to tempt me into other areas.

So what of the comments on the DVDTalk homepage about people seeing incredible DVD deals in their goldbox?

All I've seen in mine thus far are for kitchen-type stuff. And I don't care how good they are, or how good a deal Amazon is offering me, I can't imagine spending $25 on a pair of scissors.

I don't see no damn gold box.
I signed in. I haven't bought anything from them since December.
Does it only work at a certain time each day?

I know everyone is getting different things in their goldbox, but 3 out of the 5 items in mine were digital and normal cameras. One was even a telescope. If I knew anything about photography I might have bought one, but they were all really expensive even with the super-duper discount...

That's what I was wondering too! One of them (Vanilla Sky for $5.70) is at the beginning of this thread. I keep clicking on the Gold Box, hoping to find a great deal on a DVD, but all that comes up is a bunch of stuff I have no interest in. :(

Rob

I just clicked on today's Gold Box, and the 5th offer that came up was the Harry Potter DVD, for $12.79. And it's even the widescreen edition! :D I already have it, anyway. But I'm glad a DVD finally came up; I was beginning to get discouraged!

Rob

All I get are cameras, pagers, and portable cd players. All crap that I don't need.

I finally got two DVDs --- Vanilla Sky at $5.40, Oceans 11 at a cheaper, but not really great price.

The only way I think I'd buy Vanilla Sky would be if it was that cheap, so I'm kinda hoping it pops into mine. But all I got was wine glasses and a George Foreman grill. I've never bought anything from their kitchen store. In fact, the only thing I've bought that wasn't a book, CD, DVD, or video game was my DVD player. Oh well.

I still havent seen a goldbox yet

The box was there yesterday when I made a purchase but was empty. I went back this morning to see if there were any deals and the box is completely gone from my screen. I even tried to link to it thru the dvdtalk front page... empty page. Wot the... :hscratch:

Me either!

It's discrimination!!

I just checked it again - still no gold box. Bastards!

This is driving me nuts! Do they only give you a gold box if you have an established an account??? I bought from them... why aren't they offering anything? Cripes.

just checked on amazon and no gold box. Strange cause i had one a couple of days ago

Bah. 4 out of my 5 for today were out of stock! What the heck, man? Why make an offer if it's not there? Seems like a poor design.

/me has no gold box either ;(

I had a goldbox the first day, nothing since then though.

no gold box...link on dvdtalk leads to an empty page :(

I had a Gold Box today, and I got Ocean's 11 for a cheaper price.

Now mine's gone too. This is really confusing. Maybe they took it away becahse I went through it three times and didn't buy anything.

Well, if I have plans to buy an electric razor, I might have but...

Ditto here...

Same here

Those who cannot see a gold box: have you tried deleting your cookies? I closed my browser, deleted my cookies, reopened the browser and BAM!, gold box.

I tossed my cookies, My Temporary Files, & my history. Then I closed down the browser (IE6). Started it back up went to Amazon, signed in and still NO GOLD BOX!!!!

I'm going to stick with my discrimination theory.

I tried switching browsers from IE6 to Netscape 6.2 and it came up in Netscape. And I finally did see Ocean's 11 in my box...and about three out of stock products. Oh well, I guess they're still working out the kinks.

I hope you're feeling better now...:yack:

It keep getting the idea that this is the internet deal killer. Giving personalized deals to only a few people in a small time frame, kill the effect of bargain sites. I guess amazon does not like the business it gets from sites like dvdtalk.

I just checked...i have a goldbox now.

Kitchen stuff.....how impressive.

I've had a Gold Box since the day after it began but only media I've seen is Ocean's 11 and Harry Potter (for more than 9.97).

No Gold Box for me either and I've done several hundred dollars worth of business with them within the past week.
What's Up?

FINALLY for the first time instead of getting knives, and garlic peelers, and pots and pans, I had a DVD pop up, but first of all, it was one I did not want, but secondly it did not seem like a deal at all. (Kate & Leopold for 17.99) ?????

i just called Amazon and inquired about this Gold Box because I got it two days in a row, and then didn't get it today. The CSR told me it's done randomly. So I'll be wishin and hopin and wishin and hopin...

Ever since my first gold box nothing has popped up. I cleared out my cookies, shut down... everything... gah I'm peeved. :mad: