July 15 Amazon Prime Day

Classic Films · 2015-07-06 13:50:07

I got a good waffle iron for under $20! :lol:

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07-15-15 | 06:30 PM

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Re: July 15 Amazon Prime Day

I got a good waffle iron for under $20!

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07-15-15 | 06:31 PM

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Re: July 15 Amazon Prime Day

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Originally Posted by Why So Blu?

Did anyone buy anything from Wal Mart? They had quite a few decent "rollback" deals.

What did they have Blu-ray-wise? I looked a few times, but I didn't see any BDs, and the DVDs they had were all Billy Blank and fitness stuff. I didn't keep looking, though, so maybe they added something and I missed out.

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07-15-15 | 06:36 PM

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Re: July 15 Amazon Prime Day

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Oh, I totally forgot about Blu-rays cuz I was on the look out for a sweet TV deal.

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07-15-15 | 06:42 PM

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Did anyone buy anything from Wal Mart? They had quite a few decent "rollback" deals.

I looked this morning but what I saw looked even more lame than the stuff Amazon was hawking. I guess it all depends on what you're wanting but so far neither has delivered much.

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07-15-15 | 07:08 PM

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Wal-Mart had 25 pages for their electronics, and the last 15 pages or so was nothing but computer parts and off-brand electronic knick-knacks.

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07-15-15 | 08:50 PM

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Good tip. I likely would not have noticed it was a $3 credit if you had not mentioned it. Having said that, one decent deal all day....

That "standard" shipping option with the $3 credit has not been available most of the day. It was taken off last night and came back as $3 sometime around mid afternoon.

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07-15-15 | 09:22 PM

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Re: July 15 Amazon Prime Day

Next week there is a big sale at Best Buy so said the news report promoting the Amazon sale.

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07-15-15 | 09:28 PM

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Re: July 15 Amazon Prime Day

Totally placing some cat food orders to get the $3 credit for no rush shipping. The only other thing I ended up getting today was the $45 gift card pack with the $10 bonus.

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07-15-15 | 11:09 PM

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Just ordered Kingsman and used my CC points. It came to about $8.36 and I used the standard shippping option and that will give me $3 in credit, so that works out great.

How'd you get the $3 credit?

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07-15-15 | 11:15 PM

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When you check out, if you elect to have your purchase shipped via standard delivery rather than 2 day, they will give you the $3 credit.

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07-15-15 | 11:23 PM

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Re: July 15 Amazon Prime Day

I bought about 25 $3-$5 books, BDs or CDs today, getting $3 credit each time. Pretty much paid for Prime today alone.

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07-15-15 | 11:39 PM

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I really can't believe that Amazon won any brand loyalty with the travesty this Amazon Prime Day turned out to be.

Walmart actually had real Black Friday deals very early in the day. There were some incredible sale prices on high-quality gym equipment, lower than I've ever seen.

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07-16-15 | 08:20 AM

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Well, the only thing I purchased was the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I wouldn't have even purchased that, but it just so happens that I recently finished The Hobbit movies and had been thinking about upgrading. It wasn't a great deal but was good enough. This thing sure was a bust. I expected much more.

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07-16-15 | 08:39 AM

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Re: July 15 Amazon Prime Day

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I'm 6 years in, but I'm paying for streaming and free shipping. I was still going to continue to keep my membership whether this sale happened or not

BF sales have been shit for a while. Did we really think this was going to be any better?

Most of the blus that went on sale, I already had. The TVs that were onsale are still too small for me.

Overall there's just a lot of shit I don't really need.

I echo all of that - the videos and shipping are excellent value for money for me/us, and I have most stuff already, too!

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07-16-15 | 08:40 AM

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When you check out, if you elect to have your purchase shipped via standard delivery rather than 2 day, they will give you the $3 credit.

Thanks - earlier on that wasn't an option, and then by midday I got some weird '$5 towards tools' thing...! MP3/video credit is far preferable.

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07-16-15 | 10:03 AM

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I got a good waffle iron for under $20!

Glad my wife didn't see that one.

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07-16-15 | 10:05 AM

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That was Amazon's cunning plan to con their competitors into selling off things too cheaply.

Jeff "Baldrick" Bezo must be giggling himself to death this morning.

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07-16-15 | 10:06 AM

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I got a good waffle iron for under $20!

Glad my wife didn't see that one.

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07-16-15 | 10:25 PM

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The social media hashtags were funny, everyone just blasting Amazon. I actually dug their Black Friday last year as I didn't have to go out into the stores and search madly for blu-rays as they pretty much price matched everything I wanted. But this was just awful. Here's hoping BF has some decent deals to make up for things.

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07-16-15 | 10:29 PM

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Re: July 15 Amazon Prime Day

I was prepared to buy a lot of stuff but the sale really turned out to be a joke. At least in terms of Blu-ray and DVD there weren't many deals and even the ones they put on sale weren't that spectacularly priced for the most part. Disappointing but I guess I saved some money.

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07-16-15 | 11:24 PM

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Re: July 15 Amazon Prime Day

I bought one item... not part of the sale. Just a regular item I was gonna buy anyway for a birthday gift. Like many others I was prepared to spend some money but apparently they didn't want it.

Hell even a generic 10% off items in your wishlist (prior to the sale of course) would have had many people pulling the trigger on some stuff.

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07-17-15 | 01:39 AM

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I think some of it has to do with the limits in their shipping departments. Amazon pricing things too low would lead to a rush of orders they may not fill in an orderly manner. They have to bulk up their warehouses and packing staffs whenever they run 4th Quarter sales. I doubt they added a single worker for this "sale" in the middle of July.

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07-18-15 | 01:08 AM

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While the internet/social media basically burned this, I am curious to see what kind of traffic and sales this led to for Amazon. Any reports on that?

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07-18-15 | 02:00 AM

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While the internet/social media basically burned this, I am curious to see what kind of traffic and sales this led to for Amazon. Any reports on that?

They said they sold a lot of stuff and signed up a lot of people, and it'll be back.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/other-talk/627613-get-your-wallets-ready-here-comes-amazon-prime-day-7.html

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07-18-15 | 02:26 AM

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They said they sold a lot of stuff and signed up a lot of people, and it'll be back.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/other-talk/...ime-day-7.html

Damn...LOTR was the top seller. How that many people don't already own it as it is always on sale (I own it and have yet to even watch those films yet because it was a great deal a while back), I will never know. I'm curious to meet the people that helped make it such a big hit, bigger than Black Friday.

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