# 250 pages of Amazon lightning deals

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 29, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/250-pages-of-amazon-lightning-deals/773389 "2016-11-29T18:02:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/250-pages-of-amazon-lightning-deals/773389/1 "2016-11-29T18:02:56Z")

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So I went to Amazon for Cyber Monday and there are 250 pages of lightning deals.

Sure I can narrow that down to a few dozen pages if I know what I am looking for but then I’m not really looking at the lightning deals, I am just shopping. Amazon has always had a “sale” filter.

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/250-pages-of-amazon-lightning-deals/773389/2 "2016-11-29T18:40:02Z")

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And this shocks you?

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/250-pages-of-amazon-lightning-deals/773389/3 "2016-11-29T18:48:26Z")

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most of what I seen last weeks flash sales were maybe 4 or 5 acceptable deals and the rest were "clean out our closet before the xmas stuff comes in "

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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/250-pages-of-amazon-lightning-deals/773389/4 "2016-11-30T13:23:47Z")

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> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> And this shocks you?

Well, yes.

You can’t flip through all the lightning deals before they start to expire.

> [@nightshadea](#):
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> most of what I seen last weeks flash sales were maybe 4 or 5 acceptable deals and the rest were "clean out our closet before the xmas stuff comes in "

And THIS is what I’m talking about. I see something I like and I goggle it to see if the price is really a “lightning deal” and Target has it for less. I bought some camping equipment that looks like last year’s model but its frikking camping. I also bought a pressure washer and the prices on newer models generally means that they have cut some corner that they don’t think you need.