Prime day 2018 - anyone snag any good deals?

[ExtraSlow]

Site keeps crashing. Anyone see good deals on Android tablets? Anything else noteworthy?

[Chandler_Racing]

Purchased (5) Blink XT cameras.

Replacing Arlo with them.

[dirtsniffer]

Why is 1 day shipping tomorrow and 2 day is thursday?

[phreezee]

Ecobee 4 cheaper than what I bought it for a month back by $20.

$225
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[andyg16]

Bought the fire stick basic, couldn't see much else since the site kept crashing. There's been some decent deals leading up to prime days as well. I think I've got Amazon packages being delivered to my house every day this week..the wife won't be too happy haha

[VWEvo]

Site keeps crashing, kinda annoying really

[Mitsu3000gt]

The website is having major problems.

I'm not aware of any actual deals though - the event is specifically to get people to sign up for Prime memberships.

DO NOT look at the "before" price on the Amazon website, it is not accurate. Check the item on camelcamelcamel.com to see if it's an actual deal or not. Most things that appear to be heavily discounted are either that price every day or 5-10% off tops (same scam as a boxing day flyer or similar).

[Strider]

Picked up a Garmin Vivoactive 3 for $240, better than Costco's sale price of $290 last week.
Should be good enough for my cycling needs since I don't foresee getting a power meter anytime soon.

[HiTempguy1]

Seagate 8TB external harddrive $169.99

It appears to be a very good price for 8TB, and supposedly the 8TB harddrives are very reliable.

[bjstare]

I can't see anything on the site except Oral-B toothbrush deals (which are actually really good deals, but we already replaced ours a couple months ago), and the LG 4k 49" TV (no idea if it's a good deal or not).

If anyone figures out how to make the site work, I'd be interested to actually shop prime deals. haha

[hurrdurr]

I can only see their spotlight ads on their splash page - unable to delve deeper into the discounts. Cool

[HiTempguy1]

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I can't see anything on the site except Oral-B toothbrush deals (which are actually really good deals, but we already replaced ours a couple months ago), and the LG 4k 49" TV (no idea if it's a good deal or not).

If anyone figures out how to make the site work, I'd be interested to actually shop prime deals. haha

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I can only see their spotlight ads on their splash page - unable to delve deeper into the discounts. Cool

That's not really they point I don't think. I imagine this is supposed to be like K-Mart "blue specials" that are unannounced and random. You're supposed to browse.

An easy way to sort of cheat this system is to have stuff you were interested in already on a wishlist or in your "saved" cart. Just click on all that stuff, if there is a prime deal, it lets you know.

[benyl]

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Purchased (5) Blink XT cameras.

Replacing Arlo with them.

Will they actually last 2 years?

[Mitsu3000gt]

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Will they actually last 2 years?

Personally I doubt it. The forums suggest it's more like 2-6 months and have lots of people bitching about battery life. They are not good for high traffic areas. Their battery rating is based on 10 "events" per day and it only records a 5 second clip (it only records when it sees motion), which is not very many. The other battery powered cameras (Arlo) are littered with battery life complaints as well, especially outdoors in the winter. If its an indoor camera you might as well get a plug-in one. Personally I recommend the Wyze Cam V2's and they are way cheaper, but you do need to plug them in.

[colsankey]

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Why is 1 day shipping tomorrow and 2 day is thursday?

They only count days from actually shipping it and thwy dont always ship tue day you order.. So it probably wont go put until tuesday or wednesday to give themselves a buffer.

[Mitsu3000gt]

Quite often my packages come 1 day early, or I will get 2-day items in 1 day. They also deliver on weekends as long as it doesn't ship Canada Post.

My 2-day items often have a courier stick on them that says "next day" or something to that effect, so Amazon is probably shipping them the same method regardless.

The website works for me now, they seem to have sorted out all their issues. You can filter the deals however you want - it is definitely not set up to just randomly browse as someone mentioned above.

[ExtraSlow]

Have been looking, nothing compelling has caught my eye yet.

[Mitsu3000gt]

There are some OK deals on large SSD's and fast memory cards, nothing really crazy though. I looked for quite a while and nothing you couldn't get on a normal day if you wait a bit.

I've seen numerous items that are the everyday price they are trying to pass off as a deal.

[HHURICANE1]

Picked one of these up.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have the 20000 mah at home and it's been great.

[ExtraSlow]

Wow what a beast. More power than I need.