Amazon Prime Day(s)

[KungFooBob]

Anyone found anything worth actually buying?

I spotted that they'd reduced the same model Huawei laptop I bought last week from £650 to £550. I paid £494 for it on the Huawei website.

[Claude]

Nope. Nothing so far.

[MrLongbeard]

Nope, I was after one of 2 watches but they've not been discounted

[KungFooBob]

The dot seems a good deal, if you want to get wiretapped by Amazon.

[Silly Car]

The kids have picked up a dot each for their respective new homes, kinda half tempted on a 5” show at £40 but not that bothered.

The savings elsewhere don’t appear to be *that* good.

[Yorick]

Never used Amazon. I hate the crummy website.

[rodbargee]

Shag all even my lavazza coffeee has gone up five quid from normal was waiting on this promo before I ordererd again this way co-op is almost good value

[moth]

The dot seems a good deal, if you want to get wiretapped by Amazon.

I bought one. Bargain.

That's three and an Echo now. Some poor sod must be bored witless eavesdropping on us

[Claude]

Eufy cam2 down from £149 to £85. We already have the 2 cam and base setup so chuffed at that.

[Taipan]

Tempted to get a Echo Show to hook up to my Ring doorbell, but thinking it would just clutter up the coffee table and what difference to looking at that as opposed to my phone? "Gadget Wants" is a terrible disease!

[Claude]

Tempted to get a Echo Show to hook up to my Ring doorbell, but thinking it would just clutter up the coffee table and what difference to looking at that as opposed to my phone? "Gadget Wants" is a terrible disease!

I need to go look!

[636mick]

Tempted to get a Echo Show to hook up to my Ring doorbell, but thinking it would just clutter up the coffee table and what difference to looking at that as opposed to my phone? "Gadget Wants" is a terrible disease!

Mmmmm, ended up with a show and a ring cam for in the front porch! Not sure why I need it but I know that I do.
Mick

[the_priest]

Nothing on sale in my "need" list. Nothing in the want list either...

[Claude]

Tempted to get a Echo Show to hook up to my Ring doorbell, but thinking it would just clutter up the coffee table and what difference to looking at that as opposed to my phone? "Gadget Wants" is a terrible disease!

Mmmmm, ended up with a show and a ring cam for in the front porch! Not sure why I need it but I know that I do.
Mick

I'm hovering over the show 8 and mini cam.

Then I thought I'd try setting up eufy with 'home kit' now I have to reset the cameras again. SHould probably have RTFM.

[KungFooBob]

All this talk of Amazon Show's got me thinking, a Show 5 would probably make a good bedside alarm clock that'll pay whatever online radio station I like as an alarm.

Would the screen be too bright at night time?

[gremlin]

Being middle-aged and dull, I read Which? magazine. They've done a number of investigations and found that prices are simply ramped up in the weeks before and then 'slashed!' to whatever they were before. I ain't saying it's smoke and mirrors, but it certainly appears to be akin to smoke and mirrors.

In fairness to Amazon, it ain't just them either, by all accounts. A supermarket favourite is to have have items go up from, say, £1.49 to £1.69 at exactly the same time as there's a 'buy 2 for £3!' offer. Sneaky minxes.

[Rockburner]

Being middle-aged and dull, I read Which? magazine. They've done a number of investigations and found that prices are simply ramped up in the weeks before and then 'slashed!' to whatever they were before. I ain't saying it's smoke and mirrors, but it certainly appears to be akin to smoke and mirrors.

In fairness to Amazon, it ain't just them either, by all accounts. A supermarket favourite is to have have items go up from, say, £1.49 to £1.69 at exactly the same time as there's a 'buy for £3!' offer. Sneaky minxes.

I'd imagine they all do it to a lesser or greater degree - it's all part of the modern way of doing business & marketing, and if you're not doing it, then you're going to be left behind.

For what it's worth I did buy a few things today, but nothing terribly exciting.

[Horse]

A supermarket favourite is to have have items go up from, say, £1.49 to £1.69 at exactly the same time as there's a 'buy for £3!' offer. Sneaky minxes.

Even more sneaky, Tesco had beers at £1.50 each, or 4 for £6!

[Claude]

Being middle-aged and dull, I read Which? magazine. They've done a number of investigations and found that prices are simply ramped up in the weeks before and then 'slashed!' to whatever they were before. I ain't saying it's smoke and mirrors, but it certainly appears to be akin to smoke and mirrors.

In fairness to Amazon, it ain't just them either, by all accounts. A supermarket favourite is to have have items go up from, say, £1.49 to £1.69 at exactly the same time as there's a 'buy 2 for £3!' offer. Sneaky minxes.

I'm sure they do. I've been after additional Eufy cams since I bought my 'starter pack' and they've never been this cheap that I have seen. Mind you I only bought in August.

[moth]

Being middle-aged and dull, I read Which? magazine. They've done a number of investigations and found that prices are simply ramped up in the weeks before and then 'slashed!' to whatever they were before. I ain't saying it's smoke and mirrors, but it certainly appears to be akin to smoke and mirrors.

In fairness to Amazon, it ain't just them either, by all accounts. A supermarket favourite is to have have items go up from, say, £1.49 to £1.69 at exactly the same time as there's a 'buy 2 for £3!' offer. Sneaky minxes.

Yeah, being old and dull I read that too.

TBF to Amazon, the price of the Echo Dot was £50. It drops to 30 quid when the new version goes on sale on Friday (I think), so 19 notes is still a bargain.

I bought a BFO Denby cast iron casserole a few years back on Black...whatever. 65% off RRP. Cheapest I could find it anywhere else was still a sight more than I paid