Since you‘ve used Dollar I assume you are from the USA. Don’t you guys have any sort of law which makes this illegal?
Jaba01
Luckily this is illegal in the EU.
DarkDuo
I found some good deals but I used camelcamelcamel to scope them out
coloredgreyscale
That way you can reason with yourself that you have saved $26 instead of $6, and can put that towards a game or something else 😛
/s
Mygaffer
Amazon, Amazon Prime and Prime day have been complete trash for years now. After they wanted another almost $40 to remove ads from the anemic streaming offerings I recently cancelled. I rarely buy anything from them anymore, comingled inventory, fakes, poor quality not properly rated electronics straight from the cheapest overseas suppliers, it’s a mess and it’s no wonder so many brands don’t even directly sell on Amazon anymore.
TheSilentCheese
A couple things I’ve been eyeing are at slightly better than a 5% discount than what they already were a few weeks ago. Of course, they shot up in price since then in prep for today’s ‘huge’ discount.
spacesluts
They think we’re this stupid because a vast majority of people truly are.
CentralSaltServices
The headphones I bought 2 weeks ago are more expensive today in the Prime Day sale than they were 2 weeks ago
Aldakoopa
It wasn’t a computer component, but still a bit of an expensive purchase. I was eyeing this upholstery cleaner with the ability to do steam cleaning for cleaning up cars. I decided to wait for the prime day sale to see if it went down. It didn’t. They did exactly like this meme.
It wasn’t any less or more expensive, so I just bought it anyway.
joaovitorblabres
I’ve been using Keepa for some years now, so I can check if there’s a real discount or just a scammed price. E.g., I was looking for a mouse, today the price is the same, but they are not advertising as a “prime day deal”, so not that bad
davidscheiber28
At this point I would call prime Day a scam, every product I checked thus far had the price bumped up in the months or weeks leading up to prime day only for it to drop to the original price on prime Day.
therealmodx
The same happened with a handy case I was about to buy. It cost 18 Euro on the 14th of July and 18 euro (reduced from 23 euro) today 🤣.
Then_Sheepherder_302
Shit should be illegal, no good discounts this time around. There are better prices during other sales. Also Nvme/SSD only got more expensive, this sucks.
Lovat69
My Softmore American history teacher liked to go outside the subjects boundaries to make sure we were fully educated. He once explained that companies always make their money. His example was one time he test drove a car and didn’t like it enough to buy it. Later he saw an advertisement that the dealer was offering $500 cash back so he went back to the dealership thinking “I didn’t like it that much but maybe with $500 cash back…”
He went to the dealer and found out they had increased the price by $500 so it was really the same exact price.
tqmirza
That’s why when I saw a 990 pro 4tb reduced to £250 on Amazon with Samsung giving £80 cash back, I jumped on it last month. Sure, last year you could have got the same thing for £160 straight up on a sale; but it isn’t last year anymore. Prime days, for the most part, is a ripoff.
Yes, it was great in the first few years; but I guess that was just to sucker us in.
etfvidal
The JCPenney special!
michelobX10
I don’t pay attention to sales anymore. They all employ shady tactics to trick people into thinking they’re actual sale prices.
zak_the_maniac
It’s absolutely illegal to raise prices to make sales look better.
thissucksnuts
Lol you thought amazon has real sales?
Arbiter61
When shopping a sale, ignore all details except the price of the product. Crossed out numbers, percentages discounted, etc. – all of it is just marketing strategy.
Do you want the product and is the price affordable? That’s all that matters.
ReapingRaichu
Use the Keepa extension, it tracks prices for items and let me tell you, Amazon is getting away with too much of the greedy price hikes/drops
Connathon
camel camel camel is a game changer
Toast_Meat
*”Damn! Literally half the price now? May as well get a couple then!”*
– The unfortunate average consumer experiencing FOMO and not being in the loop.
CapNCookM8
Had a monitor in my list ready to complete my upgrade to 2k, but knowing prime day was only a few weeks away I waited hoping I could save $50-100. The monitor was $199 (20% off from $249) a couple weeks ago. Today I happily purchased it for $199 (33% off from $299).
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First time?
Since you‘ve used Dollar I assume you are from the USA. Don’t you guys have any sort of law which makes this illegal?
Luckily this is illegal in the EU.
I found some good deals but I used camelcamelcamel to scope them out
That way you can reason with yourself that you have saved $26 instead of $6, and can put that towards a game or something else 😛
/s
Amazon, Amazon Prime and Prime day have been complete trash for years now. After they wanted another almost $40 to remove ads from the anemic streaming offerings I recently cancelled. I rarely buy anything from them anymore, comingled inventory, fakes, poor quality not properly rated electronics straight from the cheapest overseas suppliers, it’s a mess and it’s no wonder so many brands don’t even directly sell on Amazon anymore.
A couple things I’ve been eyeing are at slightly better than a 5% discount than what they already were a few weeks ago. Of course, they shot up in price since then in prep for today’s ‘huge’ discount.
They think we’re this stupid because a vast majority of people truly are.
The headphones I bought 2 weeks ago are more expensive today in the Prime Day sale than they were 2 weeks ago
It wasn’t a computer component, but still a bit of an expensive purchase. I was eyeing this upholstery cleaner with the ability to do steam cleaning for cleaning up cars. I decided to wait for the prime day sale to see if it went down. It didn’t. They did exactly like this meme.
It wasn’t any less or more expensive, so I just bought it anyway.
I’ve been using Keepa for some years now, so I can check if there’s a real discount or just a scammed price. E.g., I was looking for a mouse, today the price is the same, but they are not advertising as a “prime day deal”, so not that bad
At this point I would call prime Day a scam, every product I checked thus far had the price bumped up in the months or weeks leading up to prime day only for it to drop to the original price on prime Day.
The same happened with a handy case I was about to buy. It cost 18 Euro on the 14th of July and 18 euro (reduced from 23 euro) today 🤣.
Shit should be illegal, no good discounts this time around. There are better prices during other sales. Also Nvme/SSD only got more expensive, this sucks.
My Softmore American history teacher liked to go outside the subjects boundaries to make sure we were fully educated. He once explained that companies always make their money. His example was one time he test drove a car and didn’t like it enough to buy it. Later he saw an advertisement that the dealer was offering $500 cash back so he went back to the dealership thinking “I didn’t like it that much but maybe with $500 cash back…”
He went to the dealer and found out they had increased the price by $500 so it was really the same exact price.
That’s why when I saw a 990 pro 4tb reduced to £250 on Amazon with Samsung giving £80 cash back, I jumped on it last month. Sure, last year you could have got the same thing for £160 straight up on a sale; but it isn’t last year anymore. Prime days, for the most part, is a ripoff.
Yes, it was great in the first few years; but I guess that was just to sucker us in.
The JCPenney special!
I don’t pay attention to sales anymore. They all employ shady tactics to trick people into thinking they’re actual sale prices.
It’s absolutely illegal to raise prices to make sales look better.
Lol you thought amazon has real sales?
When shopping a sale, ignore all details except the price of the product. Crossed out numbers, percentages discounted, etc. – all of it is just marketing strategy.
Do you want the product and is the price affordable? That’s all that matters.
Use the Keepa extension, it tracks prices for items and let me tell you, Amazon is getting away with too much of the greedy price hikes/drops
camel camel camel is a game changer
*”Damn! Literally half the price now? May as well get a couple then!”*
– The unfortunate average consumer experiencing FOMO and not being in the loop.
Had a monitor in my list ready to complete my upgrade to 2k, but knowing prime day was only a few weeks away I waited hoping I could save $50-100. The monitor was $199 (20% off from $249) a couple weeks ago. Today I happily purchased it for $199 (33% off from $299).