Amazon CEO talk Prime Day sales

[renz20003]

 

[Zeze]

7/10

 

[KeithP]

Been there, done that…
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/jeff-bezos-interview-regarding-amazon-prime-day.2439507/

-Keith

 

[13Gigatons]

What was that expression about a sucker born every minute?

 

[Sonikku]

The first Prime day had a lot of people buying into the hype, but ever since most people see it as the farce it is. Just a bunch of old warehouse items that have been sitting around unwanted for years selling for below average prices. Or at best, actual good deals with quantities so limited, they're sold within seconds. Maybe Prime Day is the first holiday just for bots?

 

[ultimatebob]

They should stop beating around the bush and give out free Echo Dots to any Prime member who wants one this year.

They're already practically handing them out like party favors as it is.

 

[zinfamous]

Guys, don't knock it so soon.

We can get a $12 counter-top trash can for $10.79!

It's probably not Trident-approved, but we can't all be ballers like that.

 

[SearchMaster]

I picked up 3 Fire sticks for $20/ea today...it's been a successful Prime Day for me so far.

 

[IronWing]

I guess today is the day?

 

[jpiniero]

Amazon's website is allegedly having problems... wonder what Bezos will do to the poor workers?

 

[SearchMaster]

It's supposed to be the day but they seem to be having issues. On the website, everything I click pretty much takes me back to a page with a banner saying "Shop All Deals", and the mobile app takes me to a page with a dog saying "Something went wrong on our end." I think it was supposed to start at 3pm EST. I'll probably check back in a little while but give up if it's still a mess.

 

[dainthomas]

It's supposed to be the day but they seem to be having issues. On the website, everything I click pretty much takes me back to a page with a banner saying "Shop All Deals", and the mobile app takes me to a page with a dog saying "Something went wrong on our end." I think it was supposed to start at 3pm EST. I'll probably check back in a little while but give up if it's still a mess.

I was able to get in long enough to add a couple things to my cart, then it locked up again.

 

[13Gigatons]

Robot Check

Robot Check

Robot Check

sigh

 

[allisolm]

It's supposed to be the day but they seem to be having issues. On the website, everything I click pretty much takes me back to a page with a banner saying "Shop All Deals", and the mobile app takes me to a page with a dog saying "Something went wrong on our end." I think it was supposed to start at 3pm EST. I'll probably check back in a little while but give up if it's still a mess.

Same thing happens to me.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Guys, don't knock it so soon.

We can get a $12 counter-top trash can for $10.79!

Yeah, $1.21 doesn't seem like a lot, but order a million of them and the savings really add up.

 

[ElFenix]

so how's the fire tv ginormous dongle thing? may or may not have destroyed my OG fire stick because it was being a giant POS.

 

[ultimatebob]

Amazon's website is allegedly having problems... wonder what Bezos will do to the poor workers?

Considering that AWS is Amazon's cash cow and he NEEDS those developers and sysadmins, probably nothing more than a strongly worded e-mail. Which will probably get leaked to Reddit

 

[Sonikku]

Gundam Versus dropped to $15 but every time I kept trying to add it to cart the website crashed. Tried to get a 128gb sandisc card for my Switch, but it kept crashing too and now that deal's gone too. There an officially branded 1st party Nintendo 128gb card for $35, but that's a hair too rich for my blood.

Meh.

 

[dainthomas]

so how's the fire tv ginormous dongle thing? may or may not have destroyed my OG fire stick because it was being a giant POS.

If you don't care about 4K, the second gen fire stick is fantastic.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

bastard. I saw this thread and was hoping it was serious so I could post this exact same video....

By the way, at this point it is 2+ years old from the first time there was Prime day.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

They should stop beating around the bush and give out free Echo Dots to any Prime member who wants one this year.

They're already practically handing them out like party favors as it is.

Dude, my fucking EMPLOYER just sent out an email today where everyone gets a free Amazon echo speaker or a free Google Home... I don't need that shit damnit just give me an extra $100 and call it a day.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I logged onto Amazon to check my order in teh pipeline. No problemos.

But then, I'm no prime member and my order was placed yesterday. Considering I'm not a Prime member, I wish they wouldn't spam me with the Prime Day landing page. Talk about irrelevant.

I think Newegg's trying to cash in though.

 

[esquared]

Got a 1TB Crucial SSD for 132.99.

184.99-45.00- 7.00 (using Visa Prime card)

 

[ultimatebob]

Dude, my fucking EMPLOYER just sent out an email today where everyone gets a free Amazon echo speaker or a free Google Home... I don't need that shit damnit just give me an extra $100 and call it a day.

Yeah, they give the damn things away when you open a new bank account now. They need to stop pretending that they're still worth $49 retail and lower the normal price to $25. If you're a Prime member? $10, tops. You know that they're making the money on the back-end by selling you shit and data mining your responses for useful information to give to advertisers.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Got a 1TB Crucial SSD for 132.99.

184.99-45.00- 7.00 (using Visa Prime card)

Yep, I got that SSD too as well as another Blink XT camera for my HA stuff.