Amazon Prime Day

[Flasch186]

Anything good?

Im having a hard time figuring out what is what and what's a good deal and exclusive anyways.

[bob]

So far looks like mostly crap to me unless you were looking to buy a Kindle. For all they promoted this, I don't see anything else of note.

[EagleFan]

So far looks like mostly crap to me unless you were looking to buy a Kindle. For all they promoted this, I don't see anything else of note.

Scrolled through the items and it looks like you're okay if looking for an iPhone 6 case, a watch or a USB charger... Nothing that made me take a second look.

[CraigSca]

Yeah, I didn't notice anything great, except for the Amazon Kindle that no one wants. Also, can't listen to any Prime music to enter the $25k contest as it seems the servers are overloaded.

Incoming Amazon backlash...

[Grover]

Deals will ramp up through the day.

You don't open with your strongest material in something like this.

[MacroGuru]

I did buy a HD7 Kindle as I left mine on a plane about 6 weeks ago and need to replace it. Saving at least $60 for me was a plus.

[muns]

I just got a new desktop, and was hoping to snag a monitor and a decent set of speakers today. Not impressed yet. The first monitor was only 20 bucks off what they were selling it for in the first place.

[ISiddiqui]

So far looks like mostly crap to me unless you were looking to buy a Kindle. For all they promoted this, I don't see anything else of note.

Yeah same here. Though I hope Grover is right, ramping up of deals would make it worthwhile.

[bob]

Yeah same here. Though I hope Grover is right, ramping up of deals would make it worthwhile.

That may be true, but you can already look at the upcoming deals, and those are crap too. So unless they have some that they aren't showing yet, which seems kinda dumb since lots of people won't come back, this was a great publicity stunt.

[MrBug708]

Some good deals, just depends on what you need. I ended up buying a 9 pack of 80 baby wipes for like 5 dollars.

[jeff061]

Deals will ramp up through the day.

You don't open with your strongest material in something like this.

Yeah, I don't know, I'd lead with my best. I stopped checking the site altogether because of the garbage. If there were some interesting things scattered in there I probably would be checking it as the day progressed.

But I'm not bothering.

[bob]

Seems like a wasted opportunity to highlight some of the other benefits of Prime - everyone knows about the "free" shipping and the video benefits. But how about Amazon music, Kindle lending library and Kindle First, Kindle singles, etc.

[bob]

Also, thanks for the heads up on the baby wipes.

[muns]

Some good deals, just depends on what you need. I ended up buying a 9 pack of 80 baby wipes for like 5 dollars.

Ya I'd say that was a steal there.

I just picked up a 24inch monitor for 99 bucks. 106 with taxes, which isn't shabby at all

[Ragone]

I got the fire tv stick for 24 bucks... Liked the chromecast.. but never was impressed with how slow it was.. apparently this one is much better..

[RainMaker]

I got the fire tv stick for 24 bucks... Liked the chromecast.. but never was impressed with how slow it was.. apparently this one is much better..

They had a 2-day sale last year where they were selling it for $19.99. Still not bad at $24.

[RainMaker]

Deals will ramp up through the day.

You don't open with your strongest material in something like this.

If I was Amazon, I'd open strong. Best way to get buzz going online. Right now the buzz is that Prime Day sucks.

It seems most of the sales are just leftover crap they're trying to unload. Maybe that's what they're going for but not something that would make me want to be a Prime member.

[ISiddiqui]

The other thing they could be going for is dropping some amazing deals in the middle and end (right now they seem to be selling some Blu-rays and games at discounts) and then those folks go online telling about amazing deals and the people who dropped out early go "Oh man, I can't believe I didn't keep looking". Kind of like the idea behind Woot's Woot-Off.

[Peregrine]

50 bucks off an Echo could be a good deal if you wanted one. A friend has one and I have to admit they're pretty cool.

[bob]

50 bucks off an Echo could be a good deal if you wanted one. A friend has one and I have to admit they're pretty cool.

I'm pretty sure that its sold out at this point.

[Subby]

Anything good?
Nope.

[Subby]

Sorry. Stand corrected.

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[cartman]

a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff

[stevew]

Someone on another forum was talking about jailbreaking his FireTV with software(whatever XBMC is called) and getting a bunch of free content that is "legal because it's cached overseas and never downloaded and the copyright cant be enforced" I'm kinda doubting he's right.

[Arles]

I got a little fortunate with a few prime purchases. The best was the Fitbit Charge HR: Amazon.com: Fitbit Charge HR Wireless Activity Wristband, Black, Large: Health & Personal Care (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N2BW2PK?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00)

It was pricematched to $117 because of the Wallmart sale (for about an hour). So, I added that to my cart and used the code "PRI20ARC" ($20 off a $100 purchase if you use your amazon rewards visa today). That knocked it to $98 and then I will get a $25 amazon credit once it ships. My wife has one and loves it so I figured this was the best price I would be getting.

[Subby]

Prime members have bought tens of thousands of Fire TV Sticks, 35,000 Lord of the Rings Blu-Ray sets, 28,000 Rubbermaid sets, and 4,000 Echos in 15 minutes. The Kate Spade purse was gone in less than a minute. The 1.2K of $999 TVs sold out in less than 10 minutes.
Amazon Prime Day Orders Outpace Black Friday - Fortune (http://fortune.com/2015/07/15/amazon-prime-day-orders-eclipse-black-friday/)

[JonInMiddleGA]

You pretty much know you've botched your big event when you don't even get to the end of the day before the dissatisfied customer stories hit the wire.

My Way News - Shoppers disappointed in much-hyped 'Prime Day' sales (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20150715/amazon-prime-day-fizzle-4f0ddedc6b.html)

[Arles]

It was pretty crazy for a lot of stuff. I tried to get in on a 32 GB flash drive deal. The second the lightning deal started, I clicked the item and tried to add the flash deal to my cart. Within that 2-3 seconds, it was sold out. That's a little silly to have that few items available for a fairly insignificant sale. I can't imagine trying to get a TV.

[bob]

Ok, found a good offer - pair of shoes I wanted that were $100 on Amazon (and rei, etc). So 100 - 30 (30% off fashion item) - 20 ($20 off a 100 purchase with using Amazon card) = 50.... That works

[bhlloy]

Seems like 99% junk with the other 1% sold out immediately or buried under so much junk you couldn't find it. You would have thought with this much hype they could have planned it a lot better - it almost seems like they just wanted to shift as much garbage as they could, which is fine but not when you've been hyping it as better than Black Friday.

[BillJasper]

I didn't see anything that was such an awesome deal that I had to have it today.

[The Jackal]

I guess it was a little underwhelming - there were some solid looking discounts on more expensive things that I didn't consider a need. I bought a couple of small things, and that $25k music sweepstakes made me realize that I should be listening to Prime stations, so that's a win.

I'm just a little bummed I never saw that $115 40" tv - I'd been looking for it all day and then finally saw it around 9pm in the "deal over" section of the deals of the day. I feel like they need to make a filter for deals that are over or have been fully claimed so that you don't have to sort through a hundred pages of stuff.

[Grover]

the Amazon Fire Stick doesn't support HBO Now does it? Is that stille Apple-only?

[bob]

I don't think it supports HBO Now but does support HBO Go.... or at least the Fire TV box does.

[ISiddiqui]

Yep... HBO Now is still Apple only for now. Eventually they'll move to other devices, but no one knows when that is.

[ISiddiqui]

Well, talk about speaking slightly too soon - this came out 30 mins ago:

HBO Now hits Android devices, coming soon to Chromecast and Fire TV (http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/16/hbo-arrives-on-android/?ncid=rss_truncated)

If you own an Android phone or tablet, you can now access the standalone TV streaming option for $15 a month. You'll still have to wait to employ a Chromecast, Fire TV or Fire TV Stick to do your watching, though, but the service is said to arrive on those gadgets soon enough.

[Surtt]

I don't think it supports HBO Now but does support HBO Go.... or at least the Fire TV box does.

I have a Fire TV stick and I get HBO Go.

Or at least it is an option to download.
I have not tried it I don't have an HBO sub.

[bob]

I should have stated that both Netflix and HBO Go work like crap on my Fire TV box, even though both work fine on my 1st generation Roku. Well, at least did until Roku just randomly disabled the HBO Go channel for no explicable reason, other than to try to get me to buy a new device from them.

[Dodgerchick]

I guess it was a little underwhelming - there were some solid looking discounts on more expensive things that I didn't consider a need. I bought a couple of small things, and that $25k music sweepstakes made me realize that I should be listening to Prime stations, so that's a win.

I'm just a little bummed I never saw that $115 40" tv - I'd been looking for it all day and then finally saw it around 9pm in the "deal over" section of the deals of the day. I feel like they need to make a filter for deals that are over or have been fully claimed so that you don't have to sort through a hundred pages of stuff.

Yeah I was looking for it too, and never saw it. The 32" one was sold out.

I was also expecting big things, but nope.

[AnalBumCover]

Prime Day 2016 is tomorrow! (7/12)

[Grammaticus]

What's up with Prime? 2 day delivery has turned into 2 to 4 days and in some cases up to 7 days.

[bhlloy]

What's up with Prime? 2 day delivery has turned into 2 to 4 days and in some cases up to 7 days.

My biggest gripe is with items that are marked as prime same day/2 day eligible via search but then display as taking longer (either because they are out of stock or some other reason) once you get to the final page before delivery. This has been happening more and more over the last few months and is really fricking annoying.

If I'm specifically searching for something with prime 1/2 day delivery, there's a reason for it. Don't tell me after I've gone all the way through the process that you can't fulfill that. Partly first world problems, but partly also a main reason I pay for prime in the first place.

I haven't had issues with prime delivery much (a couple of things arriving a day late which I didn't really care about) but then again, living in LA probably helps.

[RainMaker]

Yeah I've been souring a bit on Prime lately. I mean it's still worth it but the basic things I used it for are getting worse and more expensive. They seem to be putting money into the things I don't care about like photo storage and video.

[Logan]

Yeah I've been souring a bit on Prime lately. I mean it's still worth it but the basic things I used it for are getting worse and more expensive. They seem to be putting money into the things I don't care about like photo storage and video.

Their cloud based services are how they make enough money where they can keep losing tons of money on virtually every retail item they sell.

If you get a shipping delay on something they've guaranteed within 2 days, just email them and they'll extend your Prime service for another month at no charge. It's no hassle.

[SlyBelle1]

I still love Prime....use it all the time and have saved me a lot of time and money...Amazon has become my go to place for just about anything. As for the sale itself, the thing I don't like about it is the fact its so hard to really grasp what's on sale that's meaningful to me...just so much stuff.

[Logan]

I just picked up the cheap Fire tablet for $33. Our iPad has been slow as molasses and I almost bought this a couple weeks ago at $50 just to have a cheap, light way to watch Netflix and Prime...plus being able to download the Prime content for offline viewing was a major plus.

[RainMaker]

I just picked up the cheap Fire tablet for $33. Our iPad has been slow as molasses and I almost bought this a couple weeks ago at $50 just to have a cheap, light way to watch Netflix and Prime...plus being able to download the Prime content for offline viewing was a major plus.

I'm tempted too. Do you have to use all Amazon products on it? Like can I use Chrome?

[Logan]

I'm tempted too. Do you have to use all Amazon products on it? Like can I use Chrome?

I think you can use Chrome by first installing another app.

[Logan]

Loving this cheap tablet BTW. I spent $8 on a standup case and $10 on a 32 GB memory card for all the offline content I want to save. Installed Kodi on it. Endless streaming options while connected to wifi, plenty of space for movies/TV shows with the expandable storage while offline. All for about $50 with the Amazon discount. Complete steal.

[MrBug708]

Starts tonight. Doesn't seem like much hype over it this year..

[RainMaker]

They are just dumping their clearance stuff. Outside of maybe one of their tablets/phones going on sale, there isn't much to the sale.

[CU Tiger]

Its actually a really cool concept.

Amazon uses this as a scaleable test for infastructure and staffing/supply chain modeling for Christmas Holiday. They attempt, 6 months out, to create a short term demand equal to the 7 week continuous holiday demand. This serves as a stress test for any new tech implemented in the last year.

My company is doing some backbone projects for Amazon and we heard this in a site meeting recently. I thought it was a brilliant strategy.

[PilotMan]

Picked up a 2nd Echo dot for the house, but that's it. Ends up being less than $30 after the $10 credit (for future purchase) is figured in.

[bob]

So Amazon had an interesting start to Prime Day. When the deals went live at 9PM, tons of items that shouldn't have been listed as a Prime Day deal were marked that way and had some crazy discounts on them due to errors - 25%, 20%, and 20% off applied to each item (so basically 65% off). I read about it this morning, but Legos, video games, board games, etc at least. Not sure if it affected the entire site. But people jumped on and bought a ton of things (here's an example posted online)

http://i.imgur.com/CcbyUxc.jpg

[NobodyHere]

PS4 slim for 229, Sony must be getting desperate

[bob]

So Amazon had an interesting start to Prime Day. When the deals went live at 9PM, tons of items that shouldn't have been listed as a Prime Day deal were marked that way and had some crazy discounts on them due to errors - 25%, 20%, and 20% off applied to each item (so basically 65% off). I read about it this morning, but Legos, video games, board games, etc at least. Not sure if it affected the entire site. But people jumped on and bought a ton of things (here's an example posted online)

http://i.imgur.com/CcbyUxc.jpg

So it sounds like they shipped these orders. Quite the deal for those that got them.

[AnalBumCover]

So it sounds like they shipped these orders. Quite the deal for those that got them.

I'm one of those who jumped at this "glitch", buying 5 board games for less than $20 in all. None of these are shipped yet, and I'm expecting my orders to be canceled before they are.

[muns]

I actually picked up a cable modem and a gaming router that should really improve my internet speeds. Should have cost me 350 and I picked them up for 209. I can't complain about that, especially since getting rid of the Comcast cable modem will save me 120 a year itself.

[bob]

I'm one of those who jumped at this "glitch", buying 5 board games for less than $20 in all. None of these are shipped yet, and I'm expecting my orders to be canceled before they are.

According to the posts I've seen on Reddit, the orders that have shipped so far were all from people that paid for 1 day shipping.

The only deal I've done so far is getting a $5 credit for buying a $25 gift card. Might as well take the free $5 since I buy so much from Amazon anyway.

[panerd]

I love sites like slickdeals and utilize them quite a bit when making major purchases like appliances and even smaller stuff like diapers. Some of the people though seem to take "deal" to the extreme and I'm not personally sure if they are any worse than the people who pay full retail everywhere. What in the world is that guy going to do with $800+ worth of legos? Sure he "only" paid $300 but sometimes a deal is not really a deal.

[bob]

I love sites like slickdeals and utilize them quite a bit when making major purchases like appliances and even smaller stuff like diapers. Some of the people though seem to take "deal" to the extreme and I'm not personally sure if they are any worse than the people who pay full retail everywhere. What in the world is that guy going to do with $800+ worth of legos? Sure he "only" paid $300 but sometimes a deal is not really a deal.

These were people buying the $150+ sets. So 1) collectors who saved a bunch on what they were gonna buy anyway or 2) resellers that are gonna make a ton.

[CU Tiger]

FBA.....PROFIT

[AnalBumCover]

These were people buying the $150+ sets. So 1) collectors who saved a bunch on what they were gonna buy anyway or 2) resellers that are gonna make a ton.

LEGO sets, especially those selling for $150+, hold their value very well, even increase in value as they "retire". It's pretty difficult getting a used set for a discount, especially if it's a more popular IP (Star Wars, Marvel, etc). Either way, as a builder or as an investor, this guy made a killing.

[muns]

LEGO sets, especially those selling for $150+, hold their value very well, even increase in value as they "retire". It's pretty difficult getting a used set for a discount, especially if it's a more popular IP (Star Wars, Marvel, etc). Either way, as a builder or as an investor, this guy made a killing.

This is crazy to me. Thanks for explaining this. My GF is a kindergarten teacher and each year we try to find LEGO's to replace the ones that kids eat, and lose and all that fun stuff. Its virtually impossible to find ones that are cheaper because the secondary market is just like paying full retail for them. Now I know why that is.

[AnalBumCover]

I'm one of those who jumped at this "glitch", buying 5 board games for less than $20 in all. None of these are shipped yet, and I'm expecting my orders to be canceled before they are.

So far 4 of my 5 games have been shipped. The last one has an expected Saturday delivery date. Reports on reddit are showing games arrived on their doorstep.

So it seems Amazon is honoring those orders. With a $1B in sales in one day, this glitch didn't hurt them at all.