Buying from Amazon.com.au? Please use our links
Posted by Huw,
G'day!
Brickset is now an Amazon.com.au associate which means we will earn a small commission from purchases made through our links.
We are hoping to be able to leverage the Amazon API to generate Bargain Watch alerts for Australia, as we do for European and North American Amazon sites, but before we can do so effectively we need to generate some sales. So, if you're buying anything from Amazon Australia, click here first, or use the Amazon link on the sidebar of the home page. Thank you!
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Brilliant!
Thanks mate! Aussie Aussie Aussie! About time too... Pity Amazon Australia is not very good.
Oh and btw Huw, please dont say G day, its too cringy. And having been to England I can say as a fact you guys cant do good fish and chips. XD
^ What do you mean? We invented it!
Beaut cobber!
Streuth!
Sorry to disagree @Brickchap but English Fish 'n' Chips are better.
Nice!
@Huw Well thats exactly what I mean, you guys invented fish and chips but cant cook them properly hahaha
Rather like cricket hence The Ashes (back in oh well whenever it was a humorist wrote an obituary for English cricket having been beaten by the Australians)
@Mr_Orange
Well where I come from in NSW we have fresh seafood almost all the time and its generally prepared very well. I had fish and chips in an English pub near the Sherlock Holmes museum in London and it was disgusting. Now I dont expect much from English fish thats understandable that Atlantic and Channel fish wouldnt be as tasty as Pacific fish but even the chips were terrible.
Note* This is all in good Aussie humour
There is certainly some variation in quality. A pub isn't necessarily the best place to have it, it's best to go to a dedicated fish and chip shop with a high throughout of customers so that everything is cooked freshly.
Those on the coast are often the best, and eating fish and chips on the beach is a British tradition.
Anyway, what's this got to do with Amazon? :-)
This is great news as cashrewards/shopback have stopped providing cashback on amazon on the toys category. Will be good that brickset gets something out of it. I wonder if amazon will sell the osprey? ??
@Huw Have you ever seen an Australian stay on topic? hahaha
Seriously though thanks for sharing this.
@Huw Amazon Australia's prices aren't particularly competitive, Lego or other retailers usually offer better prices.
Do Amazon.nl or .de have links like this?
@sturts said:
" @Huw Amazon Australia's prices aren't particularly competitive, Lego or other retailers usually offer better prices. "
That's *usually* true but I recently bought a set on Amazon at 20% off RRP with free postage. That's as good as most sales from major retailers, so it's worth comparing the offers with other sellers
Woo! Thanks
Noice
@Faryn said:
"Do Amazon.nl or .de have links like this?"
.de yes, it's been there for at least 12 years!
.nl, no, because to be a .nl Amazon Associate you need to have a .nl bank account, for some reason.
That could come in handy when the (very rare) sales occur in brick and mortar stores that Amazon au (sometimes) price matches.
Fish and chips from a pub in London?! Of course it was bad! Get yourself to a proper fish and chip shop in a coastal town and you’ll get the real deal. I’m from South Shields on the North East coast of England and there’s plenty of quality chip shops.
Glad that Huw has managed to secure another source of income for the website. Hopefully other countries can get similar deals to keep Brickset going for many more years to come :-)
I can’t believe you have judged our fish and chips by a pub near a tourist trap! Too right you should go to the coast and have it prepared properly at a Chippy - North or South Shields, Whitby even Whitley bay would sort you out. I hear they can even do a decent job down south, although I had some in Southend and they were the worst. Still better than some pub near the Sherlock Holmes Museum though.
All this talk about chips leads nowhere as there is nothing so good as Belgian fries.
Great timing. I have an Amazon AU purchase I wanna make today. So I just click the link above, and then I can click a link from a different site, and Brickset gets the referral?
How many sales (or prerequisite) is needed before the next stage of Bargin Watch can be implemented?
@Mr_Dunlop said:
"Great timing. I have an Amazon AU purchase I wanna make today. So I just click the link above, and then I can click a link from a different site, and Brickset gets the referral?"
Click on our link, then locate the item you wish to buy. If you click on a link from a different site, the other site will get the commission.
@Brick_With_Knobs said:
"How many sales (or prerequisite) is needed before the next stage of Bargin Watch can be implemented? "
Not many, fewer than 10 I think.
Amazon generally price match the major retailers though so a 20% off sale at Big W, for example, will be matched by Amazon. The advantage of Amazon is that they are more likely to actually have stock.
Fish 'n' Chips in England - you need to go to a proper fishing port on the east coast, not a pub in London!