17 incredibly useful Amazon products and services you never knew existed

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Amazon isn’t exactly a complicated site: All you have to do it log in, browse the product selection, and make a purchase. That’s it.

But there are some features, products, and pro-tips that only dedicated Amazon fans know about.

Here’s how to become an expert Amazon shopper.

Jillian D’Onfro contributed to an earlier version of this post. 

Looking for replacement car parts? Amazon Garage lets you store your car’s make and model to make it easy to find accessories that will actually work with your vehicle.

Add cars to your Garage here.

Amazon also wants to help you unclog your toilet and mow your lawn. Home Services makes it easy to book pre-vetted professionals whenever you need them.

Right now, Amazon says select services are available in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C. Browse what’s available, and where, here. 

In 2015, Amazon launched an Etsy competitor called Handmade to help people find products handcrafted by artisans.

So if you’re craving caramel frappuccino earrings or a guacamole greeting card, you can now find ’em in Homemade. 

Browse the selection here. 

You can also support startups through Launchpad, Amazon’s designated section for fledgling products.

Learn more about how it got started and check out what’s for sale here. 

If you get invited to become an Amazon Vine reviewer, you’ll get free stuff from companies to review.

Vine is Amazon’s invitation-only club for a small percentage of elite reviewers. Every month, Amazon sends selected Vine reviewers a list of products. Each person can select two products to review at a time, and they can keep those items as long as they provide a review within 30 days. Amazon insists that reviews don’t have to be positive. 

You can learn more about Amazon Vine here. 

You can use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to crowd-source “human intelligence tasks” — like identifying photos — to people all over the world.

Mechanical Turk basically gives users access to an on-demand workforce, and it gives people who want to make a little extra money a way to find quick-and-easy online labor. Here are some examples from the site: You can get paid $0.04 a picture to find images of specified real-estate agents or $0.02 to copy text from a picture of a business card.

Learn more about Mechanical Turk here. 

If you’re a teacher, you can check out the newly-launched Amazon Inspire for a bunch of educational resources.

Read more about it here and check out the resources on the site. 

If you own a business, you can get discounts on bulk supplies, whether you work in IT or as a janitor.

Register your business here. 

You can get a book published in Amazon’s Kindle store less than 24 hours after submitting it through Kindle Direct Publishing.

Learn more about self-publishing on Amazon here. 

If you live in a city, there’s a good chance you can use Amazon Locker to get your packages dropped off at secure location while you’re at work.

For people who work all day and don’t want to get personal packages delivered to the office, yet can never make it to the post office before it closes, Locker is a godsend.

Lockers are often in 24-hour facilities — like 7-Elevens — and when you go to pick up your package, you just have to enter a code that was texted or emailed to you to get it. 

Check out Amazon Locker. 

Shop with Amazon Smile and the company will donate a percentage of your total order to a charity of your choice at no extra cost to you.

If you spot an Amazon link on Twitter, you can add the product to your shopping cart by replying with the hashtag #AmazonCart or #AmazonWishList.

Are there a few products you buy all the time? You can subscribe to get it on a regular basis. Plus, you’ll get free shipping.

Amazon lets you subscribe to certain items you’ll need to buy over and over, like toothpaste, toilet paper, or dog food. In exchange for agreeing to buy an item on a continuous schedule, you’ll get a little discount. 

If an item is available for subscription, you’ll see the option when you go to check out. You personalize how often you’d like the item delivered, and Amazon will email you before shipping the item so you can delay it if you’re using a product slower than expected.

Learn more about Subscribe & Save here. 

If you don’t care about buying something new, you can also search specifically for refurbished goods.

The Warehouse Deals category on Amazon offers deep discounts on open-box, refurbished, and used products that are in good condition, but not technically “new.” For example, you might get a returned laptop for 15% off.

Browse the selection here. 

 

Amazon Dash Buttons let you reorder supplies like paper towels or laundry detergent with the click of a button.

Prime members can use WiFi-connected Dash buttons to more easily reorder things they use regularly. The button itself costs $4.99, then you pay for the cost of the product you’re ordering. 

Browse through available Dash buttons here. 

Prime members can also take advantage of Amazon Restaurants, a service that delivers you food from restaurants in your area.

Learn more about Amazon Restaurants or place an order here. 

Amazon has its own line of supplies called AmazonBasics that’s typically cheaper than brand-name products. Amazon sells lightning cables, towels, backpacks, and more under its Basics line.

Browse AmazonBasics here.

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