Amazon offers US$10 to US Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data


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  • Wednesday, 17 Jul 2019

An order picker collects customer delivery orders at an Amazon.com Inc. fulfilment center during the online retailer's Prime Day sales promotion day in Koblenz, Germany, on Monday, July 15, 2019. Amazon is tapping high-profile actors, athletes and social-media sensations like never before to maintain buzz around its Prime Day summer sale, now in its fifth year and battling increasing competition from rivals. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

Amazon.com Inc has a promotion for US shoppers on Prime Day, the 48-hour marketing blitz that started July 15: Earn US$10 (RM41) of credit if you let Amazon track the websites you visit.

The deal is for new installations of the Amazon Assistant, a comparison-shopping tool that customers can add to their web browsers. It fetches Amazon's price for products that users see on Walmart.com, Target.com and elsewhere.

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Monthly Plan

RM 13.90/month

Best Value

Annual Plan

RM 12.33/month

RM 8.02/month

Billed as RM 96.20 for the 1st year, RM 148 thereafter.

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