Recoup Your Holidays Shopping Expenses with Price Protection

By Pinyo, on January 7, 2008

Just like Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” If you bought your holiday gifts less than 30 days ago, you may have some uncollected money waiting for you! Since I don’t know where you bought your gifts, I will share my own experience with gifts bought from Amazon.com.

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PriceProtectr and Price Protection

A couple of weeks ago, I learned about a web site called PriceProtectr from my friend at Gather Little By Little. So I gave it a try, and registered purchases from my most recent order with Amazon into their system. Less than a week later, I got an email saying that Amazon had reduced the price on an item, with a detailed instruction on how to get my money back. Here is part of the email:

“Please verify the item and price, and review the retailer’s price protection policy before requesting a refund.

To claim your refund: Visit their contact page, click the ‘e-mail’ tab, and choose ‘Refund Inquiry’ from the dropdown list. Or contact their customer service department at 1-800-201-7575. Hitting 7 should get you to a customer service rep right away.”

Amazon.com and the 30-day Post-Order Price Guarantee

The process was simple. I followed the instruction and sent Amazon.com a request for refund via their contact form. In less than a day, I got my email confirmation and the $1.28 refund back from them. Encouraged, I went into my order history report and found more items that had their prices reduced. I followed the same process, and overall, I got a total of about $10 back from Amazon.

If you did your shopping less than 30 days ago, it may be worthwhile to go back to the web sites and stores to review their price protection policy and see if you can get money back for some of the items you purchased.

Good luck with refund hunting!

More on price protection:

• Protect Against After-Purchase Price Drops with PriceProtectr @ Zen Personal Finance
• Track Price Drops with Price Protectr @ Get Rich Slowly
• It’s YOUR money, be CHEAP! @ Canadian Financial Stuff
• Price Protectr @ Blunt Money

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• The Festival of Frugality #107 – The Little Things Edition hosted by Cash Money Life. For more information please visit the Festival of Frugality.

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