It’s Prime Day once again so I’m here to start my annual thread about it. Anyone find anything good?
The only difference I see in this year’s Day is that they have real Apple stuff on sale, which I don’t think has ever been a feature in the past. No iPhones on sale as of yet. They do have Samsung phones on sale.
They also are pushing small businesses this year. Here’s a page with links to small business products.
Sale prices do seem to be substantially discounted right now, on name brands. Instead $1 or $2 off some off-the-wall electronics item I’m seeing 20-30% off brands I’ve heard of before. I just picked up calming chews from Zesty Paws I had shopped for previously.
I had some floating shelves from a no-name brand in my “save for later” list. In the list it said they were $38. I clicked through to the item and they were $30, apparently just for another 15 minutes. Amazon fucking with me? Probably. But I was explicitly saving them waiting to see if there’d be a Prime Day deal so I bought them.
Some other special notes about Prime Day:
- You have to finish it by tomorrow but if you do all the stuff to fill out your Prime Stamp Card you get a $10 reward
- If you have an Amazon Prime credit card, rewards are 6% today instead of 5%. Try not to use any gift cards, points or cash back today. Save them for another time and get your full 6% back.
- Use the site camelcamelcamel.com to see if the item you’re considering is ACTUALLY on sale or fake on sale (as in, it’s regularly cheaper they just inflated the price today).
- There’s usually some pretty good deals on Prime Video on Prime Day. There might be some newer movie you meant to watch that you didn’t want to pay $10 for, that is only $3 to rent today. You can also get access to some streaming channels for 99 cents a month for 2 months. Great deal if you want to binge a show but don’t want to pay a lot to do it.
- A LOT of other stores are having big sales on the 12th and 13th, including Target, Best Buy, Walmart and Nordstrom. Here’s an article with an extensive list.
Ok Dopers, let me know if you find anything good!