For me, Prime Day is not a time for good deals, but a time for my packages to be delayed. I hope you won’t need anything in a hurry for a week after it.
It can be fun to watch prices a little before and during Prime Day. I've seen quite a few things on my wishlist go up in price the week before, then a "Prime Day Deal" that's higher than the original price was.
There's still the possibility of shenanigans with different models that can be overpriced for long so they look like a good deal when they get a normal price
Yes. In the UK they go up a month before, because we have consumer protection laws that required retailers of e.g. white goods to have maintained the higher price for any announced discount for at least a month. So you knew that sellers thought there would be (at that point unannounced) Deal Days, because the prices of some things went up 20% back at the beginning of September.
I had ordered a new wireless charger about two weeks ago (without Prime). a day or two before it was meant to be shipped (about a week before Prime day), my order was cancelled "due to lack of stock". I go to the original product page and what do you know, it's in stock but $3 more expensive. Looking again today, it's on the Prime sale for the old price.
Prime Day is a great day to encourage people to use tools like CamelCamelCamel or Keepa to see if the "deals" are actually deals.
For me, Prime Day is not a time for good deals, but a time for my packages to be delayed. I hope you won’t need anything in a hurry for a week after it.
It can be fun to watch prices a little before and during Prime Day. I've seen quite a few things on my wishlist go up in price the week before, then a "Prime Day Deal" that's higher than the original price was.
There's https://camelcamelcamel.com to check how prices developed.
There's still the possibility of shenanigans with different models that can be overpriced for long so they look like a good deal when they get a normal price
Yes. In the UK they go up a month before, because we have consumer protection laws that required retailers of e.g. white goods to have maintained the higher price for any announced discount for at least a month. So you knew that sellers thought there would be (at that point unannounced) Deal Days, because the prices of some things went up 20% back at the beginning of September.
I had ordered a new wireless charger about two weeks ago (without Prime). a day or two before it was meant to be shipped (about a week before Prime day), my order was cancelled "due to lack of stock". I go to the original product page and what do you know, it's in stock but $3 more expensive. Looking again today, it's on the Prime sale for the old price.
Scummy behaviour at best, and illegal at worst.
cheapest prices are always two weeks before any public sale
that includes "Black Friday"
then there are hilarious prices like twice what it was two years ago
what exactly did amazon do with those billions in tariff refunds?> what exactly did amazon do with those billions in tariff refunds?
Plan expensive weddings in Venice. And we're all doing our part paying as consumers and tax payers.
Amazon certainly puts up some impressive numbers.
For example, Amazon warehouse workers experience serious injury rates that are roughly 2 times the industry average!
~6.5-6.7 per 100 workers at Amazon compared to ~3.2-3.8 per 100 workers for the overall industry.
Which industry and what is counted as an injury here?