Anybody watching Amazon Prime Day?

I did take a look at their announced specials and the hand tool deals are pretty limited. I did see a flir thermal camera coming up but I think its 20% off and a fairly basic model

I don't pay close attention to most sales. I check the sales when I need something to see who might be offering a better than normal price, but I'm generally not one to buy a BrandX widget when I like the BrandY better just because the former is on sale.

Still, I did take a glance at the Prime Day ad this year.

Even though I never had any strong inclination to get a table, least of all a locked down Amazon model, $33 for a Kindle Fire turned out to be low enough I couldn't resist. So far, the main use is as a cookbook that takes up less counter space than the hardcover versions I normally use. I also found it handy at work recently - I loaded a few PDF documents I needed to read, so that while installing equipment at a customer facility where I had a lot of downtime while the customer inspected things, I could still get other work done without carrying around a laptop in addition to my tools.

Personally though, if my wife weren't insistent we keep it, I'd ditch the Prime membership. I don't think we actually use it enough the shipping savings pay for themselves, and certainly not if you consider how few of the items we've bought we actually need in 2 days.

And factor in the times they've promised 2 day delivery but failed to meet their deadline...

iamlucky13 said:

And factor in the times they've promised 2 day delivery but failed to meet their deadline...

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Five days for me one time because of a three day weekend which I guess doesn't count. I did the Prime one-month trial recently because I needed something next day. That worked out fine. So we've been watching some of the Amazon-produced movies, which have been surprisingly good.

The periodic sales don't interest me. They mostly seem a way for them to get rid of slow movers which is okay I guess, but I've never seen anything interesting for us.

begreen said:

I refuse to get sucked into Black Friday and now Prime day deals, especially when you have to pay $99 to get them. We have enough stuff and prefer to stay out of debt.

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We do about 90% of our shopping online, even groceries, and the majority of it is Amazon. That fairly nominal fee is money well spent, for us. I also watched a movie free on Prime, with the kids last night.


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begreen said:

We have enough stuff and prefer to stay out of debt.

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Enough stuff I understand, but staying out of debt is just, well, unAmerican!