Apple Watch Activity High at eBay on First Day; Amazon Trumpets Shopping by Apple Watch
Activity was brisk on eBay Friday as Apple Watch opportunists looked to recoup their investments several times over, we found. Some 1,170 items came up in an Apple Watch search Friday afternoon, although we watched an Apple Watch Sport with…
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42mm silver aluminum case and white sport band time out without a buyer. The seller started the bidding at $699 and had a Buy It Now price of $999 but came away with no takers. A space gray version of the same watch began with a 1 cent bid, and price leapfrogged after 37 bids to $1,250 with more than an hour to go, we found. A 38mm sport watch in space gray had no bids on a $475 price tag with 32 minutes to go. Sellers used “Confirmed Delivery” to indicate they had preordered the product. Amazon, meanwhile, took advantage of the Watch by announcing that the Amazon shopping app for the Apple wearable offers one-click purchasing and save-to-wish list functions. The shopping app will be available on Apple Watch in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.S. and the U.K., Amazon said. Calling the first day of Apple Watch availability “day-one for wearable devices,” Amazon Director-Mobile Shopping Paul Cousineau said Amazon worked to distill the best parts of the Amazon shopping experience into fast and simple access points from users' wrists. Users can search the Amazon catalog and find “glanceable” product information including name, price, shipping information, product images and star ratings, he said. When we typed “Apple Watch” into the Amazon search box, we were fed 114 pages of related products but not the Apple Watch. The search produced the Samsung Gear S ($199), the Motorola Moto 360 ($219), the LG G Watch R ($310), the Pebble Beach Smart Watch for iPhone ($181), the Sony SmartWatch ($70) and the Martian Watches Notifier ($70), along with accessories.