If you have an Amazon Kindle but it’s a little long in the tooth, there’s a new way to claim money off a brand new eReader for a limited time. Amazon is currently offering its high-end Kindle Scribe at a remarkable £90 discount, but if you send off your old Kindle to the firm, it’ll knock an additional 20 percent off.
The Kindle Scribe is Amazon’s most advanced and largest-screened Kindle yet, with a pen that lets you handwrite sticky notes on the pages of any book. You can also use the whole screen as a digital E Ink notebook and back all your scribblings up to the cloud.
If you send in an eligible Kindle you’ll be issued a £5 Amazon gift card too, which you can use on the purchase of a new Kindle. This means you can pick up the 16GB Kindle Scribe with the Basic Pen accessory for £186.99, a massive saving of £143 off the RRP of £329.99.
That’s £329.99 which is down to £239.99 in a limited time deal, with a further 20 percent off the sale price when you trade in a Kindle, plus £5 off with the gift card to get you down to £186.99. It’s by far the cheapest the Scribe has ever been sold – the £239.99 sale price is the lowest it’s ever been on Amazon according to price check site Camelcamelcamel.
This is some serious online bargain hunting, so here’s how you make it work. There’s a limited time deal on the Kindle Scribe, so if you want it for as cheap as possible make sure you select the 16GB model with the Basic Pen. You can also get the Scribe with more storage and the Premium Pen (which has an eraser sensor on the other end to the nib) but those packages will cost you more.
You can only trade in a Kindle that is registered as purchased on the same Amazon account you’re buying the new Scribe on. So if you bought that old Kindle a few years ago on a particular Amazon account, make sure you use that account to get this deal and it should appear when you click on the trade-in options on the Scribe’s listing page.
The Kindle you trade in also needs to be in working condition. Amazon won’t issue you a £5 gift card or the 20 percent off until it has appraised the condition of the Kindle, which takes 10 days. You have to post your old Kindle off to Amazon using a UPS label the firm emails you once you’ve set up the trade in.
One catch is once you’ve sent your Kindle off, it’ll take up to 10 days to give you your discounts – and because this Scribe deal is on for a limited time, we can’t guarantee the sale price will still be on if you have to wait a few days.
You can try your luck by getting your old Kindle sent off today – but remember you can still get 20 percent off even if the price goes back up, or indeed could buy the Kindle Scribe today for £239.99, which is still £90 off the usual price.
