Prime day on Amazon started 45 minutes ago and the web site is actually crashing a lot for me right now, which is incredibly rare.
I believe Ebay and Walmart are running sales as well.
What are the best deals you have found?
Prime day on Amazon started 45 minutes ago and the web site is actually crashing a lot for me right now, which is incredibly rare.
I believe Ebay and Walmart are running sales as well.
What are the best deals you have found?
Seriously, I keep getting the “Sorry, something went wrong on our end” message at Amazon.com.
Yeah pretty weird that this bring Prime Day #4, and Amazon being a major player in the data and networking game, that they can’t get their site running.
I was in there at 3 PM checking out all the deals, and I added myself to the alert list for some things (mostly dog treats) but when I click through on the alert, the app and the site are down.
I feel bad for the doggies who have to keep apologizing for the server being down!
Who else is having sales? Best Buy is, I know that.
I’ve been stuck in the “See all the deals” loop all day.
I wasn’t planning on buying anything, but I wanted at least to see what was on sale. Oh, well.
If I see another one of their dogs …
Yeah, the site has been often fubar for me.
Several nice deals on things I don’t need or don’t want. That seems to be every Prime Day for me.
I managed to buy a couple of sports bras before it all want wonky. Got stuck in the “see the deals” loop and the sad puppy faces when I could get past that page.
The website hasn’t been working for me since I tried last about an hour ago.
Been getting this message all afternoon:
I managed to buy some Yak Chews for my dogs, and a game for my friend’s kid that I’d been waiting to come down in price. It wasn’t a Prime deal but it finally came down $5, and it’s for an August birthday so I win.
I was trying to do some investigating on the Yak Chews before I bought them and they “sold out” before I could add to my cart. Then I put myself on the “waitlist” for the chews and got notified by the app on my phone that I could buy them again.
If nothing else they DEFINITELY do a good job of creating false urgency. Suckers me in every time
Walmart is having a sale today, and Target’s sale starts tomorrow (the 17th).
NM, misread.
Essential android phone for $250 which is 50% off.
They seem to be putting up coupons for non-prime people as well. I ordered a couple of things today that had 10percent or more off coupons. I dropped prime because my supposed 2 day shipping was a nice fantasy that only happened about half the time and there was rarely anything on the prime video worth watching and I was having to pay for anything I wanted to see anyway. Why give them a hundred bucks a year for imaginary benefits?
I got Tyranny for free through Twitch Prime, should be up for another couple of days I think.
I shopped at Amazon for a hard case for the school issued laptop we’ll be getting next month but I ended up going to Walmart instead, where I also bought my daughter three silly tee-shirts on clearance to tally it up to 35 bucks so we got free shipping. Not a bad deal! I couldn’t find a better deal on the cases at Amazon even with free shipping.
I’ve had no trouble clicking into amazon, but oddly, there’s nothing I want. Either I’m an extremely enlightened being, or I’m so self-indulgent on the other 364 days of the year that a special sale day isn’t a big deal.
I bought myself a bouquet of flowers at the grocery store this morning. Of course, I do that every week. (No point in waiting for someone else to do it.)
I’m going to go back to amazon and see if I can’t crank up my consumerism…
I’ve seen more dogs today than I ever want to again.
Honestly, I’m going to Walmart.com today. They are offering 2-day shipping, no prime membership needed, and are also slashing prices.
And their web site works!
I was in the endless loop when it started, but everything is working for me now (knock wood). I bought some sheets and saved $20, and plan on buying some vitamins later. Maybe some impulse-buy kitchen stuff if I can’t stop myself.
ETA: I was very close to buying a Fire tablet, but I’m pretty deep into epub and don’t want to make the switch to mobi so I’m glad I talked myself out of it!
Not strictly limited to Amazon? Ok, I’ll bite.
Today (in Canada) I ordered a sleeping bag from Walmart. The sleeping bag was 20 bucks; the shipping was 11 bucks.
And I had to pay 13% tax on the whole shebang.
See why on-line shopping may not be as popular in Canada?
ETA: processing fee $5, shipping $5.99.
I work at Da Jungle so I bought a pair of shoes ------------ on eBay. Much better deal by far.
Just a $2 kindle version of The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill.
Given that Amazon is run via Amazon Web Services, this hurts more than the retail side of the company.