Mobile retail fix

Hannibal book I made my first purchase on the internet at the tail end of 1998 with Amazon (I bought a copy of the Hannibal book as a gift). I went on to buy a bajillion things through the years—mostly books and CDs.

Sprint Treo 650 Eight years later, I find myself in the “mobile revolution,” so with my Sprint Treo 650 in hand, I went to amazon.com/pocketpc and decided to check it out first-hand. By the way, there’s a page on their site that gives you a few different points of entry depending on your device—click here to see it for yourself.

Portastatic cd So, I do a quick search for the latest Portastatic CD and boom, it comes up without a hitch. Then I went through the same steps: add to cart, checkout, verify shipping address, etc.

I remember after completing the transaction I felt like it dumped me on a “nowhere” kind of page, but other than that, I think the whole user experience was pretty fluid. I will probably not use it too much, but that’s because I’m not buying things as much as I did 5 years ago. At any rate, it’s a nice option to have. I couldn’t help to think that it would be a terrific “delayed gratification tool” when, let’s say I’m in Barnes & Noble thumbing through a $50 art book. Hmm, let’s see how much Amazon is selling this thing for—whoa! $35 with free shipping!

Has anyone else give this a try? Whether it be with Amazon or otherwise, I’d be interested in your mobile commerce experiences. Feel free to drop me a line.

date Posted on Sunday, 05 Feb 2006
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