Archives for September 20, 2019

New Amazon Feature: FREE Samples (not just Prime members)

If you had been a regular Amazon shopper, you may have noticed and participated in some of the more complicated ways Amazon was using to giveaway free samples (store credit promotions, etc). Now they’ve decided to simplify things even further. They have launched the Amazon Product Sampling feature that lets any Amazon shopper (not restricted to Prime members) to sign up and receive free product samples. The freebies will be sent to your default address, so make sure your default address is the one you want the samples to arrive at (mayhaps they are doing this to prevent abuse of the freebies?).

To join the program, you go to the Preferences page [link in the page above] and select the product categories you are interested in and save the choices to your Amazon account. You cannot select individual products, products will be randomly sent to you as determined by randomness and/or-probably Amazon’s ever-evolving-and-devolving AI 🙂

Joining this may put you in Amazon’s AI good graces and that may lead to invitations to participate in other more interesting Amazon programs and services ~ although this is pure speculation and there’s no guarantee that anything will come out of this…

Friday C&P Lightning Deals: Godox MS300, 15.4″ digiframe, stabilizer-y things, Etc

Lettuce take another looxie inside-y the Camera and Photo lightning deals section of the Amazon Gauld Bawx:

+++ in-progress as of the time of writing:

+ APEMan 4K action cam for $40

+ GVM lighting options from $68 to $255

+ Victure 4K action cam for $64

+ NEewer waterproof camera backpack for $21~

+ FotoPRO UFO2 [Bob Lazar NOT included] flex-pod-thing for $15

+ Feelworld F6 Plus 5.5″ on-camera monitor for $196~

+++ coming later today [as of the time of writing]

+ Hohem smartphone gimbal stabilizer 3-axis

+ Feelcare 10″ digiframe, 8″ generic digiframe, 15.4″ APESIN digiframe

+ Akaso V50 action cam, generic camcorder; Suptig housing for GoPRO

+ 3x10ft foil fringe curtain backdrop

+ GVM camera slider

+ SmilePowo, Neewer and generic charger/batteries for various Sonys

+ Godox MS300 studio strobe (300W, GN58, 5600K, Bowens)

+ E-Mart 10ft backdrop kit

Weekend (B&H): Browning Trail Cameras, RucPac Strap, Etc

Fright Day (Friday the 13th) was last week, this week it is plain old September 20 and this 4-pack of B&H dailies, as usual, lasts until Saturday at 11:59pm ET but note that B&H is closed between Friday PM and Saturday PM [check their website for exact times]:

+ Browning BTC-4P Command Ops Pro Trail Camera for $59

+ RucPac Sentinel Camera Strap for $30

+ Pelican 3rd-Generation 1910B LED Flashlight for $15

+ TP-Link Archer A6 AC1200 Wireless MU-MIMO Gigabit Wi-Fi Router (Refurbished) for $30