Amazon wants to sell you a button you can push so they can sell you the item you wanted.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Amazon Dash Button is simple to set up.
Use the Amazon app on your smartphone to easily connect to your home Wi-Fi and select the product you want to reorder with Dash Button.
Once connected, a single press automatically places your order. Amazon sends an order alert to your phone, so it's easy to cancel if you change your mind. Unless you elect otherwise, Dash Button responds only to your first press until your order is delivered.

There is a separate "button" for each item you want..."only" 4.99 PER button...for hundreds of items.
YOU pay to get the app button and pay again cause this is for prime members only.

Look here:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_bc_3?ie=UTF8&node=10667898011&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A!133141011%2Cn%3A2102313011%2C&pldnSite=1

[bettyellen]

1. Wow, one button for each product? That is betting people are hella lazy.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. There is one for toilet paper? Really?

Do you just wait on the toilet until the buttwipe arrives in the mail?

[stone space]

5. Just hope that the delivery drone doesn't have a camera attached.

Do you just wait on the toilet until the buttwipe arrives in the mail?

[olddots]

3. amazon will eventually make convenience very inconvenient

Robots don't need brick and mortar humans , humans need humans

[Xipe Totec]

4. Must resist...

[arcane1]

6. Finally! Ordering from Amazon Prime is just too much damn work! It's a pain in the ass!!!

Subscribing to this service is something that should be disclosed in job interviews.

[Marrah_G]

7. Amazon prime already has one click ordering

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Which is free, but if these things sell........it won't be.

Imagine people paying out 5.00 per product to avoid the strenuous effort of sitting down at the puter to make a list.

OTOH, if Prime gives 2 day free delivery, even Amazon's often higher prices just might make up for me having to get into a very hot car, drive to the store,
do the shopping, get back into the very hot car, lug the groceries in the house and then sit around sweating like a horse for 30 minutes, which is what summer shopping is like here.
Not to mention gas and time..

hmmmm...

[Marrah_G]

11. Prime does have the 2 day free delivery

I use it to buy household cleaner, health and beauty stuff and dog food. I can get dog food in bag that lasts for months cheaper then the local stores and they bring it right to my door (I would never be able to carry them.) I am a smart shopper and I only buy from there if I can't find it cheaper locally.

[HipChick]

20. It's same day delivery for me...if I order before noon

It's at my doorstep by 9pm EST

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. I went and checked dog food prices after I read your comment.

Then priced a similar brand that we have been buying here.
We have a 9.5% sales tax on everything but prescriptions in this county, and they are talking of raising more taxes, so often it is more economical to buy
stuff online, with free shipping, than to go to the store here.
I have marked out the Diamond Senior Dog food as a future buy online.

[procon]

33. As a service, Amazon cuts out a long trip to town and the hassle of shopping for me.

I save gas and no more wasted hours pushing a loaded shopping cart around crowded aisles, no aching back from loading everything in the car, plus lots of trips back and forth unloading it again at home. With Amazon I get convenient delivery direct to my home, and with weekend, even Sunday deliveries now, the wait time is getting shorter all the time. I can get a wider variety of foods that aren't available to me locally, now if I could get perishables all my shopping problems would be solved.

I check competitive pricing and their Subscription service is cheap enough to get regular monthly deliveries for cat food, and Prime Pantry is another way to shop for grocery items.

[Marrah_G]

34. They are working on a fresh food same day delivery program too

Which, I assume, would be fantastic for some disabled people.

[procon]

35. Yeah, its a chore to get out and about.

I used to snap back pretty quickly, but not so much now. The need for fresh produce and dairy items is usually what forces me to grocery shop, but I live too far out of town to make those kinds of deliveries affordable.

[Reter]

9. That's actually awesome

Buying, thanks!

[TBF]

10. So you put these little buttons all

over your house? Aren't you paying for the pleasure of advertising company's products for them?

Now I've seen it all.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Good point.

Can you imagine having a house guest with a twisted sense of humor going around LITERALLY pushing your buttons?

[TBF]

13. My kids would push them all the time -

we'd be bankrupt.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. "smartphone" ? "home Wi-Fi" ?

What are these things of which you speak ?

Can I get through life without spending my scarce funds on these items ? Really ? Good.

[Skip Intro]

15. Would the web, and the world, be better without Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc?

Amazon is clearly out for every penny it can scrape from it's customers.

Google and Facebook and several other big web presences exist to gather data on and/or bilk those using their services.

The more ubiquitous they become, the less choice people have.

I wonder if the web and world would be better off without them.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. I am happy buying very cheap 2nd hand books from them

could never afford to have the library I have if I had to pay full retail.

I don't see Amazon as bilking people. They have low and high prices for stuff, just like any other shopping place.

[Skip Intro]

17. Well, if you have to pay for a button to press on your phone to buy something,

that kinda sounds like bilking to me.

At any rate, I shun those mentioned as much as I can.

I'd just rather not support the walmartization of the web, and I'm flat damn tired of being asked personal information every time I use Facebook, and not being able to do virtually anything online without some tentacle of Google monitoring my activity, and building a profile on me.

[gollygee]

21. It's asking someone to pay money to allow someone to aggressively market to them

If Tide and Charmin want to market that aggressively to people, they should pay for it themselves.

[Old Codger]

18. LOL

Amazon kicked me off and closed my account,I have bought thousands of dollars worth of things from them, BUT I refuse to keep junk, I was a prime member and didn't have to pay for shipping either direction s o I would return items that were junk and attempt to find something that was at least worth keeping. Apparently they don't want the junk back either...

They sell a lot of decent stuff but sometimes hard to figure which is which, also a lot of sellers on there pay people to write rave reviews, I was offered a lot of things if I would write a good review of a product regardless of what it really was...Amazon knows this and they actually condone it pretty much turn a blind eye to it...

[gollygee]

19. I can imagine my younger kid pushing that button over and over again wondering what it does

and me ending up with 40 boxes of Tide. No thanks, even if the button were free.

[hobbit709]

22. Just what I always never wanted.

[Motown_Johnny]

23. But how can I buy the button if I don't have the button?

This makes no sense at all!

[Bosonic]

24. Who do these appeal to?

The inveterately lazy.
The tech trendies.
Anyone caring for someone bamboozled by technology and housebound.

I wouldn't be interested personally, but the initial cost of a button seems reasonably low, and the default behavior is only the first button push counts before the order is delivered (so no deliveries of 1500 toilet rolls).

I'm interested to see the uptake.

[BlueJazz]

26. Don't tell any of the manly men but I rather LIKE to go shopping.

Sometimes it's fun.

[Cleita]

27. Funny dat. I'm a woman and hate shopping. I only do it out of necessity.

But my late husband enjoyed it and often shopped for me when he wasn't at work.

[BlueJazz]

28. I don't like huge crowds (Well..who does?) but the hands on thing is important to me...

,,..even if it's only a box of cereal.

[Xipe Totec]

29. It's an acquiring taste. nt

[steve2470]

31. I only like to go shopping for computer parts lol nt

[steve2470]

30. a bit off-topic but jet.com

It's like Costco but on the web. Upfront yearly fee and low prices. I have not tried it yet but, anyway, here's the info.

https://www.jet.com

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. thanks...will check it out....

[Initech]

36. And I say: no sale!

I'll go buy from Newegg instead.