Amazon has added the ability for customers to upload their own photos to be displayed with the Amazon-supplied product shots. This is a really amazing idea in my opinion, and it looks like people are already uploading some helpful photos, comparing the product’s size to other common items, pointing out “trouble spots”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B0002OKCX4/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_1/002-1052569-5777652?%5Fencoding=UTF8&index=1#gallery, showing the “back”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B0000DC69T/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0/002-1052569-5777652?%5Fencoding=UTF8&index=0#gallery of some items that you don’t normally see from the generic product shots, etc.

Other users can rate the images based on how helpful they were in their decision to buy the product, etc. The feature isn’t available for all items yet, because it’s still in beta, but it looks like most of the electronics products have it in full effect.

via “Waxy”:http://www.waxy.org/