Amazon.com Customers Vote Deals are Back This Year

Last year, I was able to win a cool deal from Amazon.com through their customers vote promotion. It was a Roboreptile that was discounted drastically. I was so excited for that thing and thought my son would love it. Well, he didn’t love it that much and my dog goes into major attack mode whenever we bring it out. It was a bit of a dud, only coming out to play every now and then.

Well, Amazon.com is back at it this year with new deals. Here’s a few of them (you can see the full list here (aff. link)):

Nintendo Wii Game Systems $79 (*normally $249.99)
Panasonic 7.5MP Digital SLR Cameras, $499 (*normally $1,149.95)
Razor E100 Electric Scooters for $29 (*normally $89.99)
TiVo HD Digital Video Recorders, $89 (*normally $253.48)
Magellan Maestro Portable Auto GPS, $99 (*normally $247.00)
Samsung 46â€ 1080p LCD HDTVs, $719 (*normally $1,899.98)
KitchenAid Professional 6-Qt Stand Mixer, $69 (*normally $299.99)

These deals are in limited quantities and you vote for which one you would like. Then, Amazon.com will randomly select people to “win” the deal.

I would love to get a Nintento Wii System (aff. link) for $79. Unlike other game systems, with some games for the Wii you need to get up off the couch and move around for game play. Everything I have read about the Wii has been positive for something a family can do together. There’s also a game that should be coming out called Wii Fit. It comes with a balance board and will be an exercise program. That makes me drool a little. Combine the psychological effect of wanting to “beat” a game with exercise and it sounds like a magical combination. So getting that deal would be awesome. It’s also awesome because finding a Wii to purchase is difficult.

These deals are great, and pretty exciting. But make sure that if you go for them you are buying something for the ability to use it and get your money’s worth and not just because it’s a good deal (well, unless you turn around and sell it on eBay, that is ). Last year, for us the roboreptile was a bit of a bomb. So I didn’t even vote in all of the rounds this year. Oh, and as always, spend only what you can afford and don’t go into debt for a good deal (I’m shaking my head right now thinking about our past and all of the good deals we financed with our credit cards – yikes!).