Amazon Prime Day 12th July 100,000 Deals Worldwide - post deals here

sarah1972

Like Black Friday for Prime Members

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=pd16_pmp_mob_pre/275-1773173-5039351?_encoding=UTF8&node=6505293031&ref=pd16_pmp_mob_pre&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=top-0&pf_rd_r=3CDMS2QDME19CE66VAJ7&pf_rd_t=8101&pf_rd_p=980167867&pf_rd_i=desktop_landing_prime_member



Prime Day 2016 is the biggest Amazon event ever – more than 100,000 deals worldwide, including thousands in the U.K. alone exclusively for Prime members on 12th July
Prime Day is a one-day only global shopping event exclusively for Prime members. On Tuesday, 12th July, the second annual Prime Day will be the biggest global Amazon event ever. Members in the U.K. can shop starting at midnight (BST) with new deals starting as often as every five minutes from 8am onwards.

Not a Prime member? Join Prime today and enjoy fast delivery, exclusive access to movies, TV shows and music, Kindle books and much more.

With more than 100,000 deals worldwide, including thousands in the U.K. alone exclusively for Prime members, across nearly all departments and product categories in ten countries, there will be something for everyone. In fact on the first annual Prime Day in 2015, worldwide members ordered 398 items per second, exceeding Black Friday records at the time.

IM

I'm confused...

I'm a Prime member, so thought I'd have a look and see what kind of offers they're going to have on the 12th.

But on the website, they have items listed as "Prime Day Countdown Deals" which you can buy now.

Is this a way of nabbing one of the items they will be listing properly on the 12th, early?

Or are they just their usual "Today's Deals" that they have every day, and they're just listing them within the Prime Day area?

jenniewb

IM wrote: »

I'm confused...

I'm a Prime member, so thought I'd have a look and see what kind of offers they're going to have on the 12th.

But on the website, they have items listed as "Prime Day Countdown Deals" which you can buy now.

Is this a way of nabbing one of the items they will be listing properly on the 12th, early?

Or are they just their usual "Today's Deals" that they have every day, and they're just listing them within the Prime Day area?

It's all just marketing IMO. Apparently we're led to believe if you are a Prime member, as well as the "daily deals" for Prime members that already exist, there will be even more and they will be so amazing you'll really value having paid out close to £80 for the privilege of getting a chance ahead of others to pay out more money to purchase them.


TBH, having been a Prime member in the past, when they had their Black Friday offerings (which were offered to Prime members 30 minutes before the rest of the world) despite 1. having money and 2. needing to buy Christmas presents, I could not see one offer which was that amazing I had to have it. Therefore I am doubtful these new offers on the 12th will be even better. Amazon still need to make a profit at the end of the day, I doubt the offers are going to be that better than you can find elsewhere or even on Amazon in the past.


I don't have Prime, I wont be losing any sleep but I can see how it can lure people in. I wish everyone luck who is looking forward to this though- I hope what you'd been waiting for appears in their deals reduced enough for it to be a deal, but I'm yet to find anything that really seemed like an "amazing" deal when I've looked.

Doc_N

jenniewb wrote: »

It's all just marketing IMO.........

.......I don't have Prime, I wont be losing any sleep but I can see how it can lure people in. I wish everyone luck who is looking forward to this though- I hope what you'd been waiting for appears in their deals reduced enough for it to be a deal, but I'm yet to find anything that really seemed like an "amazing" deal when I've looked.

Agreed. I do still have Prime, but mainly for the quick free deliveries and because it's shared by three other family members living elsewhere. It saves a fortune in travelling costs and time.

In terms of deals like these, though, past experience over some years suggests the whole thing will be a very large damp squib. I'm not expecting there to be much worth buying - but a lot of people are lured in by the bogus RRP pricing that Amazon still manage to get away with using to make savings look bigger - despite its being against UK fair trading regulations.

GhostWarrior

I usually find the deals on alcohol during these events are the best value for money. A great way to stock up on some gifts (even for yourself lol).

anotheruser

Doc_N wrote: »

I do still have Prime, but mainly for the quick free deliveries...

But they're not free are they?
You've paid for them already.

I would have gone for it at £50 a year perhaps, although not on a rolling basis, but I don't buy enough from Amazon to make the £79 worth it now. I know it's not just deliveries but the other things are next to useless for us.

pc1271

I think the implied meaning was 'free at the point of use'. We all pay for the NHS via taxation, but most people regard it as free, since you don't pay when you use it.

Nilrem

anotheruser wrote: »

But they're not free are they?
You've paid for them already.

I would have gone for it at £50 a year perhaps, although not on a rolling basis, but I don't buy enough from Amazon to make the £79 worth it now. I know it's not just deliveries but the other things are next to useless for us.

You pay for it.

But then have unlimited uses in that year, and get quite a lot of cash back if you are a heavy user and select no rush.

If you need more than a relatively small number of "next day" deliveries you rapidly reach the point where you are into "free" next day deliveries.

This completely ignores the video streaming, music streaming, photo storage etc.

Doc_N

anotheruser wrote: »

But they're not free are they?
You've paid for them already.

I would have gone for it at £50 a year perhaps, although not on a rolling basis, but I don't buy enough from Amazon to make the £79 worth it now. I know it's not just deliveries but the other things are next to useless for us.

Of course they're not 'free' in the purest sense of the word, but we're talking semantics here aren't we.

Once you've paid the annual fee (and bear in mind that mine covers three families) the deliveries, the music, Prime Video and the monthly Kindle book all come at no cost. Rather like the 'free' waste collection, education etc my Council Tax buys me.

For me, the annual fee is well worth it. For you it isn't. We all have different requirements.

AliBee16

I have student Prime which costs me £39 per year, and is brilliant value for that, especially when in panic mode and need an academic book asap. I also think the money I get off kindle when I select 'no-rush' delivery, and the kindle lending library are good. I have 3 years of student but will probably not bother at £79 - too steep for me.

simmons

Amazon prime day annoys me in a couple of ways.
1 Why reward only the people who pay over the top for prime (see number 2), what about rewarding all those millions of people who don't use prime but have paid hundreds of millions over the years to put Amazon where they are?
2 Why pay for prime, on a regular basis i order and recieve in 24-48 hours anyway, seriously do you need it yesterday and for that are willing to pay over the odds?
The last item i ordered was on a Friday afternon at 5pm and it was delivered Saturday morning, and i don't have prime.
Come on Amazon reward the people who put you were you are not just the ones you overcharge.