Amazon Prime Day

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Has anyone spotted any Prime Day bargains?
I’ve never really spotted anything great, but it may be useful to share any finds here?

There isn’t a lot visible just yet....

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Some deals are available to preview on their app now.

It seems to be full of Chinese ‘brands’.

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paulrockliffe said:

Does stuff normally go live all at once, or might things come on stream later in the day? I was after one of the new Ticwatch Pro watches, but read that they were going to be on sale today. As far as I can see they're not reduced at all, which isn't a surprise as they're still on Amazon exclusive, but I want to know what's what before I purchase as I don't want it to be cheaper later on!

Various deals go live at different times over the course of the 72 hour long ‘day’.

Edited by shopper150 on Monday 16th July 07:52

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El stovey said:

Presumably all amazon echo devices will be on sale as bezos takes over our lives and drags us into the amazon universe so he can make spaceships.

And so he can listen to every spoken word in your home!

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miniman said:

Pondering a 4k Fire TV for £39...

Is it possible to mirror from an iPad to Fire TV?

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I was disappointed last year. Most of the discounts appear to be for their own brands or secondary or tertiary Chinese ‘brands’ that are only brands on Amazon

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Quite fancy getting a Dremel.
No idea why.

Anyone noticing that the prices on the app are higher when you click through?

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ajprice said:

Prime Day 2020 is 13th-14th October https://www.amazon.co.uk/primeday/.

It has been quite disappointing over the last years. Lots on unheard of Chinese branded products massively reduced from ‘RRP’

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IamJacksContempt said:

Annoying that this now takes place in October. Used to be July just in time for the other half’s birthday so was always able to get some good discounted presents!

Only thing I’ll be keeping an eye out for tomorrow is AirPods really. Not sure if they’re usually discounted or not?

Also in need of a decent dash cam actually

Edited by IamJacksContempt on Monday 12th October 19:10

New model AirPods are due to be announce imminently

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toastybase said:

I managed to pick up a iPhone 6s for £700 which apparently is quite good value?

I hope you’re joking.

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I’m looking for some games to play with friends and family during Christmas etc.
Would be grateful for any recommendations of stuff that’s a bargain at the moment.

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Welshbeef said:

Articulate is down to £22 a superb game and one to keep for life.

Thanks, ordered!

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So now we wait for Black Friday!
I'm sure we will see the same pricing for Ring products etc

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ambuletz said:

I've a question for anyone who's bought several (5+) items at once.

I'm planning on buying multiple items, and hopefully have it set to all arrive at the same time. Part of me wants to order it to be delivered to my local offie as part of pass+/pass my parcel. How will I know if all the items are going to be in 1 box, or come in several?

Suppose I had 10 items that all came in 4 boxes, but i collected 3, and didn't know until i got home that one of my items wasn't there. where do you know how many boxes/packages there will be?

You will get dispatch notifications and it will tell what is in what package

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illmonkey said:

My emails don’t say, just a price. They used to list items, don’t know why it’s changed

Your order history will tell you

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bigandclever said:

I once ordered a network switch and 20 x 1m patch cables, in one order from one supplier, with one despatched email. Postie had to deliver 21 packages, he was properly pissed off

Perhaps it wasn’t sold and fulfilled by Amazon.
If not, third party sellers will go do what they want

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Davie_GLA said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

So are the rings doorbells genuinely crap, I have almost created peak laziness in my house with almost everything being automated but still have to get up to answer the door, I have a new fangled TV with alexa built in which gets all sorts of notifications from all over my house and will pop up with an image of someone at my door if I had the doorbell.

Are they really that bad?

They are.

Admittedly I had one of the first gen ones but they are so reliant on environment variables that they are more than frustrating. By the time you connect to it when the door goes the visitor has got bored and moved on.

I fancy one of the blink external cameras as they apparently have a 2 year!! battery life and I have something i'd like to document at the house that's fairly well concealed and records audio. But I don't think you can buy the cameras on their own, I think they need a base station and mesh network to do their thing.

I don’t think they are bad.

The main issue is that some people don’t realise that having 10 plus Wi-Fi devices connected to the 99p router provided free of charge by the ISP on a 2mbit connection isn’t really going to cut it.

Don’t bother buying devices if you can’t be arsed to spend on the infrastructure that serves it.

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Sheets Tabuer said:

I have a full mesh network, work in IT so pretty robust home network.

In that case, they are not crap. Plan it. It’s a small device, it will need good Wi-Fi and good bandwidth. As will your mobile if you are using it away from home.

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Davie_GLA said:

shopper150 said:

I don’t think they are bad.

The main issue is that some people don’t realise that having 10 plus Wi-Fi devices connected to the 99p router provided free of charge by the ISP on a 2mbit connection isn’t really going to cut it.

Don’t bother buying devices if you can’t be arsed to spend on the infrastructure that serves it.

Also have a very robust network with most high demand devices hard wired over dedicated switching. I placed the doorbell side by side to my (a little more expensive, at £1.49 component parts) router and tested it. It of course has to connect to Amazons networks to come back to your phone and serve up the experience while at the same time trying to ring the chimes.

They did work better when Amazon weren't the owners but that's semantics i guess.

Noted, they are not without their limitations. But I would rather have one than not. Works well most of the time for me. Component parts of my router are £1.99!

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QuartzDad said:

Seems a decent price and my current mouse looks like a health hazard

Lot's of offers on Logitech Mice, nothing on decent Logitech Keyboards (other than the usual £20 ones)