Are there actually any deals worth getting on Prime Day?
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?
fun fact, the term "monopolistic" refers to a specific, relatively competitive type of imperfect competition, and not to monopoly competition. You're thinking of monopoloid practices, or in the case of their labor practices, oligopsonistic (having only a few buyers and many sellers).
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.
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 itās on sale, thatās optimal. Other than that, itās usually Amazon devices and other Amazon products that have the best deals (Fire TV, Kindle, Echo, etc.)
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.
Yeah thatās fair, and to be sure I donāt engage with mine as frequently as say an iPhone. But for the things I do use it forā¦ mainly activity-related stuff, weather, at a glance notificationsā¦ 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.
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.
that looks like a pretty generic ad site that mostly exists to throw out as many links as possible, whether the sale is real or fake, because they make money either way.