Amazon’s First Ever Prime Day Breaks Global Records

34.4 million items, even at a dollar a piece, is 34.4 million dollars. In a day.. lol...
and they weren't a dollar a piece.

jeez...

I didn't have time to flip through constantly but the time or two I looked I saw a few decent deals on electronics, didn't really look too hard though. I think they could have done better form the customer data side, suggest deals from my browsing/wishlist/buying history, etc.
 
Ramses said:
34.4 million items.....think they could have done better form the customer data side, suggest deals from my browsing/wishlist/buying history, etc.
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That were shown 6-items at a time... the least they could have done was allowed you to see a whole page at a time, maybe 60 items on a page.
 
Teenyman45 said:
I thought the cheap-ish SSD deal wasn't too bad or the deals on the Cyberpower and APC ups that sold out in seconds.
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That small APC UPS for modem and router looked perfect for my structured wiring panel for my modem and switch in there. Too bad I had the same problems as a lot of others with website errors keep telling me it was available, then 100% claimed, etc. The $50 non-deal price didn't seem that bad so I was just going to wait a little while to order, but then saw it jumped up to almost $70 as soon as the lightning deal finished.

It certainly didn't take a failure for Prime Day to disappoint me with Amazon though. If my wife did not use it for more obscure stuff she can't find locally, I would have canceled Prime after my problems with them during Christmas. I have definitely slowed way down on my Amazon shipping now most the major B&Ms will price match them without too much trouble.
 
At first it seems unbelievable then you think about it more. Amazon basically succeeded in doing what ever other store on earth has been trying to do for 100+ years. Create their own holiday. A holiday they actually named after their own service. There actually where some good deals, just like black Friday nothing was on high end stuff just mid to low end junk. But the beauty of all this is that unlike black Friday Amazon pretty much hogged all the attention for this day for themselves which meant they didn't have to compete with hundreds of other stores. All eyes were on amazon. So its not surprising they would be able to break many of their own records. If newegg could make amazon and the rest of the internet disappear for black Friday they could do something amazing too.

It will be interesting to see what happens next year as other stores attempt to counter more aggressively.
 
They had exactly one thing I wanted on sAle. When I went to buy it it updated from in stock to oos.
 
More like a yard sale with lots of junk stuff.
Bought nothing, cause I don't need detergent., chap stick or bags of candy.

What a rip off!
 
It wasn't that bad. Mostly junk but something useful here and there. It just wasn't much of a tech sale.
 
I got a pack of baby wipes, yea!. It did pressure Walmart into a big sale as well and I found some good deals on things. Neither sale was filled with electronic deals.

I for one still like amazon's prime service as it is very convenient and their return policy is fantastic. Yes, their sales suck but I can live with that. I use the music service and the free shipping and occasionally the video streaming. Once upon a time Amazon was cheaper on most everything, that time is no more. You have to shop around before you buy, which takes next to no time at all. For me, if amazon is close in price I usually order from them for the convenience and ease of returning items.
 
Yep, looks like Amazon unloaded a bunch of crap that uninformed shoppers thought they were getting a great deal on. Blah....

I did pick up an emergency food bucket I've been wanting for a while for a pretty decent price, but that was it.
 
Ducman69 said:
For those that say that Amazon DID have a few decent desirable items... yes, they did, in virtually no quantity whatsoever.
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That depends on what you were looking for. Beyerdynamics headphones were $147....never ran out of stock. It's ludicrous for people to think that a national online retailer shouldn't run out of stock when they put up a great price. People aren't being realistic about this sale. You're not entitled to it just because you want it.
 
They didn't have what I wanted so I hate Amazon now, all of those millions of people that got what they wanted are dumb and I hate them to. I hate big companies that make all this profit on the backs of the American people!!!1!!one!!

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Haven't been buying myself.

Bit short on money atm, but does seem some good yard sale deals there.
 
I didn't see anything I needed. Some stuff I wanted, but even if I bought it on sale, I didn't need it. I'd just be buying it because it was on sale....

A lot of stuff was just off base as far as why it was there. It was pretty niche stuff. Other stuff was cool, but I wasn't in the market for it. But, just seemed like a lot of fluff stuff was thrown in there to make it look bigger than it really was.
 
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