What the title says. Every year I hear everyone at work go buzzing about Prime Day, and then when I’d go check what items were on sale they were mostly cheap gaff and a bunch of minimally discounted tech products. Am I missing something that’s optimal to get around this time of year?
Ive been needing to restock some home stuff, water filters, air filters, etc. Then a few things we’ve had on the list to buy, but just hadn’t gotten around to it, new dish drying rack, raised garden bed. I checked camelcamelcamel as well.
Oh and something completely frivolous, I got the latest Kindle Paperwhite, cause it’s waterproof and USB C. I traded in my older kindle for 25$. Now I can finally stop carrying that micro USB cable when I travel.
This was such a useful suggestion, just got a bunch of replacement water filters for my fridge.
I got the best deal of all: canceling my Prime membership. I’m saving tons of money! 🤡
(but seriously, screw Amazon and their monopolistic, anti-labor practices)
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Yeah, that. 😅
If you already had something in mind to get, and you check the price (camelcamelcamel.com is a great resource for Amazon price tracking) and it’s on sale, that’s optimal. Other than that, it’s usually Amazon devices and other Amazon products that have the best deals (Fire TV, Kindle, Echo, etc.)
There might be some good deals, but since it’d involve shopping at Bezos’, I’d try to avoid it nonetheless
Not so much. I use it as an occasion to look through my wishlist to see if there are any legitimate discounts on quality goods from actual brands, and I’ve rarely seen anything. As far as I can tell, it’s generally fictional discounts on bootleg junk sold by made-up Chinese brands like BANGOOSMILE.
I even popped a few things into camelcamelcamel and on many of them you could see how something was selling for $30 for months, then the day before Prime Day, they bumped the price up to the fictional MSRP for a minimal amount of time so they could claim it was on “sale” for like 66% off or some nonsense.
If you’re into new Apple stuff like the watch series 8 or AirPods Pro 2, those are pretty good deals
As an iPhone owner, I’m not sold on dropping 280 or whatever on a watch. Is it really that useful to people?
Yeah that’s fair, and to be sure I don’t engage with mine as frequently as say an iPhone. But for the things I do use it for… mainly activity-related stuff, weather, at a glance notifications… I really appreciate it.
I have a series 6 watch and it is very useful. I can check the time, the weather, and my parents timezone with a glance. It’s nice to control my music without taking my phone out of my pocket, and I enjoy the fitness rings. I’m not a big sports/outdoory person so I can’t speak to how useful it is in that regard. I will say though, I would probably wait until the series 9 comes out because it’s expected to be the first time since the series 6 that they’re significantly improving the efficiency of the chip.
I bought a puzzle box which had a good deal. But that was blind luck. That is I think the first time something I wanted was on sale.
Amazon Fresh (I think you need a Prime membership to access this) is having a lot of buy one get one free items, and lots of coupons (25 to 35% off) on certain items. If you order $100 there’s a 20% off code (FRESHSAVE20).
Also Starz subscriptions are 2 months for 99 cents (a good deal for a non pirate).
Other online retailers are probably running sales to compete with Amazon so I would check other sites.
They’re really bad at showing you the best deals on the site, search for news articles to find the good stuff.
In previous years I’ve got my Roomba, my drone, a good toothbrush. a kindle fire, ring cameras and a cordless vacuum.
All things I wanted and was keeping an eye on so I spotted when the prices dropped.
The Verge had a listing for the Hyper-X Cloud II Wireless headset for like $60, but it turned out that price was for the wired version. 🙁
If you’re looking for deals, I like dealnews.com . I’m sure there are similar sites but in my experience they’re great.
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Thanks for the criticism.
Do you have a better deals site to suggest?
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I grabbed an Intel Arc 750a & a Jackery power station + a 100w portable solar panel. My wife & I have been looking at both of those for a while.
