How to Find Cheap Stuff on Amazon

This article shows a hack we use to find the Cheapest Item on Amazon

p.s. If you’re just looking for the product links to the cheap Amazon items to get Free Shipping, it is on the bottom of this page!

Finding the item you’re looking for on Amazon is very easy. When you type in a search term, you’re most likely going to click on the first few products that come up on the search results.

After clicking first item, and maybe a few more for comparison, you’ll most likely going to purchase one of the several at top of the search results.

This is exactly what Amazon wants you to do.

Default Amazon search doesn’t give you the best deal

Amazon search results will present you the products that you will most likely buy. Based on how well those products are selling, and how many other customers saw those items on search results, and eventually made the purchases.

You can argue, that the best selling items usually have the best quality/price ratio, and are the best deals. But that is not always the case.

1. Amazon tend to put its own brands, Amazon Basics, Amazon Elements, before the other brands.

2. 3rd party sellers can shoot up the search ranking by giving away or deeply discount their products of for a period of time. The money they lose by selling at a loss for a short period of time, is offset by the gain of being at near-top of search rankings.

So what we’re saying here, is that you can’t totally trust the Amazon search engine to give you the best price/deal. The Amazon search is made to give Amazon the most profit.

If there is a new product on Amazon, that does not have a high number of reviews, or high sales history, it will be buried deep in the results page. This new product could be a great price, and great quality too, yet it will be seldom found and be sold.

We have found a hack to their search tool to help you find the best cheap items on Amazon.

This works especially great for generic products, where the cheapest version works just as well as the most expensive ones, but at 30% of the cost. Items like picture frames, lamps, storage boxes, even electronics like mice and keyboards.

The Generic Amazon Search Tool

With the generic Amazon search tool, we can type an item like keyboard.

The first few results are always the best selling items with the word Keyboard in the title. Most keyboards that between $20 to $30. But we just want a generic keyboard that’ll do the job. We don’t need a fancy keyboard that lights up and does my chores for me.

We can also sort the prices from low-to-high, using the drop down menu on upper right hand corner.

But this will display the products that sell for $0.01. When you click on them, you find out they have a high shipping charge, and long ship times.

We can scroll down the search page, we can find a keyboard that sells for $8.99, prime eligible for free shipping. Seems like a good deal, but can we find a keyboard that’s even cheaper?

Scrolling the first few pages of search results, we can’t find any better deals.

We have a hack for you to find the cheap stuff on Amazon that Amazon doesn’t show you, unless you specifically search for it. Read on to find out.

Hacking the Amazon Search Results to Get the Best Cheap Amazon Item

Amazon used to give you the ability to refine the results by price range. But that feature was taken away.
Luckily, we’ve figured out how to manually do that.

Here’s the step by step guide.

• Type in an item you want to buy on Amazon in the search bar, like Keyboard. Click the Manifying Glass to search.

 

• You’ll be presented with search results page, with a web address like: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=keyboard&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

 

• Add the following to the end of the web address, to search for items between $1.00 and $7.99 and are Prime Eligible
  &rh=p_36%3A100-799%2Cp_85%3A2470955011

 

• The web address would become: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=keyboard&ref=nb_sb_noss_2&rh=p_36%3A100-799%2Cp_85%3A2470955011

 

To change the price range, just modify the 100-799 number in the url.

i.e. &rh=p_36%3A255-1127 will give you items priced between $2.55 and $11.27

You can lower the maximum price to whatever you want. (To $$0.50 if you want)

Why didn’t I search between $0.01 and $7.99?

This is because if the minimum price is $0.01, the search will return back a lot of keyboard accessories, instead of keyboards. Items like keyboard cover, or keyboard cleaners, will dominate the search results

Let’s see if we can find anything cheaper than the $8.99 keyboard by adding &rh=p_36%3A100-799 to the web address to narrow the search down.

We do find at the very top of the result, is a keyboard on sale for $7.99.

Why was this item on top of the result? It’s because it was within our refined price range of $1.00 and $7.99, and it is the item that was most purchased when other shoppers searched for the word “Keyboard” on Amazon.

There could be another keyboard that is even cheaper.

In fact, we did for only $5.19, just below the $7.99 keyboard. There are few other cheaper ones too, but they are narrow, slim or reduced size keyboards. Not what we’re looking for at this time.

How is this Amazon Search Results Hack Useful?

Find the Cheapest Price

Whatever you’re looking to buy, you can use this trick to dictate what Amazon will show you in the search result. Use it to find the cheapest price on Amazon.

For Non-Prime Members, great for finding filler items to meet the $25 Free Shipping threshold

If you don’t have Prime, (why not? Get Amazon Prime 30 Days Free) and need $25 order total for free shipping, cheap amazon items for free shipping is extremely useful. Check the section below for some cool cheap things on we found on Amazon with this hack.

Prime Eligible Cool Cheap Things on Amazon under $2