This years Amazon Prime Sale.

[Minusorange]

It sucked, I got a wristband for wiping sweat and some resistance bands and some mosituriser, where I got to use the free £15 they gave out for signing up for their amazon version of google photo

 

[explicit4u]

Poorest prime day i've seen so far, only managed some toiletries and a 6 pack of oat milk that was a little cheaper than usual.

 

[hyperseven]

Bought a few things, will probably return some:
512GB MicroSDs
NVME USB enclosures
NVME drives
blood pressure monitor
Ring cams
Dashcam
Kraken rum
some socks and a hoody

No cheap Lindor this time

 

[Hotwired]

High streets destroyed themself with
Poor prices
Poor range of products/choice
Closing stores in high foot traffic locations to instead open stores on business parks..
If they sell the item you want there's a good chance it's not in stock anyway....

The people making the decisions on store locations are clearly people who don't use stores like a normal person...

Imagine expecting everyone to travel 3-5+ miles to some business park on the edge of a city....

oh look a supermarket, Pet world, Currys and a halfords.... maybe a starbucks and a mcdonalds what a massive draw to get in the shoppers


Why wouldn't people just buy from amazon, no doubt cheaper, more convenient and a wide range of brands

High street shops pay more tax and have higher overheads.

That's not their decision unless they pack up, close the stores and become a increasingly online store out of a giant warehouse.

 

[EVILCOSMOS]

Prime day seems a bit of a let down this year, I did get a nvme drive though.

 

[ivrytwr3]

Razer Izkur chair - nice

 

[BUDFORCE]

High streets destroyed themself with
Poor prices
Poor range of products/choice
Closing stores in high foot traffic locations to instead open stores on business parks..
If they sell the item you want there's a good chance it's not in stock anyway....

The people making the decisions on store locations are clearly people who don't use stores like a normal person...

Imagine expecting everyone to travel 3-5+ miles to some business park on the edge of a city....

oh look a supermarket, Pet world, Currys and a halfords.... maybe a starbucks and a mcdonalds what a massive draw to get in the shoppers


Why wouldn't people just buy from amazon, no doubt cheaper, more convenient and a wide range of brands

Other online retailers.....

 

[glenimp617]

Did quite well yesterday. Needed a new 2TB nvme which I picked up for half price

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Load of stuff that has seen better discounts earlier in the year. Usual Amazon “sale”.

 

[Bassmansam]

Got myself a fitbit charge 5 for £95 instead of RRP of £170. I'd been faffing around indecisively for ages on getting something, so that deal pushed me over the edge.

Not a bad deal but i got one on there in march for £133, much less than £170!

 

[R3dRaven]

Both days I looked through all the gear prime had sale and the only thing that caught my eye was a set of digital scales.

I'm sure the sales are just selling the same junk in bulk that constantly pop up on the normal lighting day sales.

 

[Haggisman]

Filthy tax dodging company siphoning our wealth and destroying domestic businesses.

Enough about the current government, what are your thoughts on Amazon?

Other online retailers.....

I try to use other online retailers - the problem is that almost invariably they are higher priced, charge extra for delivery on top, and usually that's for standard 3-5 business days shipping. If I'm in the middle of a project, I don't have the luxury of waiting a week for something I need to turn up. I don't mind paying a little more if it's something I can get locally (e.g. click & collect), but when you're talking an extra £10 on a £15 item, can you really blame people?

Not a bad deal but i got one on there in march for £133, much less than £170!

I picked one up for £100 from Argos in Feb

Anyway, as for me, I picked up a new Eufy camera which I'd been keeping an eye on, and a couple of bottles of single malt (Talisker 10 year old for £26.50 )

As others have mentioned though, most of the big "discounts" are on tat that nobody wants, and is barely worth the discounted price, much less the original MSRP!!

 

[Nasher]

The first time we properly did black Friday etc in the UK there was actual bargains. Even the Steam sales aren't what they were, you can't find top games for a few £ anymore.

But now it's rubbish. I see a lot of fake sales with stuff actually maked UP. Or junk they can't sell.

 

[Werewolf]

I ended up spending more than intended, but less than I half expected it wasn't particularly great unless you were after things like echos imo.

On the flip side what I did get was all stuff i'd been looking for/considering, things like a cheap lighweight set of BT earphones for my dad, some memory cards, a couple OTG adaptors for my phone etc.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Load of stuff that has seen better discounts earlier in the year. Usual Amazon “sale”.

The best thing about the chrome extension price tracker. It’s saved me a fair bit of cash over the years.

 

[dlockers]

I bought a tap so I can send the old tap back. It was a genuine saving. The issue is I'm not sure I like the tap.

 

[adidan]

Needed a 2Tb NVME and Amazon were only 40 or 50p cheaper (e: on a Prime deal) than Overclockers so ordered from OCUK instead.

I prefer to shop away from Amazon where possible.

 

[adidan]

I bought a tap so I can send the old tap back. It was a genuine saving. The issue is I'm not sure I like the tap.

Ah the classic one tap, two tap, meh tap, no tap scenario

 

[Rroff]

Was actually some decent deals on NVMEs and Micro SD cards but a lot of fake deals - one thing on my Buy Again list was shown as £23.99 crossed out and on sale for £14.25 but has been £15.00 for weeks and between £15-19 for last 2 years, another was £40.00 in the sale showing £64.99 crossed out but went up to that from £49.99 a couple of days before the sale, now at £50.79 and showing £54.00 crossed out post sale - I bought one for £36.00 in the last sale.

Loads of stuff showing as 20-40% sale deal but was only 50p (less than 5%) less than the normal price and/or the normal price went up just before the sale.

 

[Raymond Lin]

As with all Prime Day and all kinds of sale, i check on CamelCamelCamel first before buying and that is only for things I actually need.