I got some AAA batteries

Some good deals in vitamins and food products could have been had in the sale. I picked up a new tablet and a few 4K UHDs.

Nothing for me this year, and that is fine.

As an Amazon affiliate, I received tons of emails encouraging me to spread the word on lots of recommended products to push. I use my affiliate stuff for niche things that are of my world(s) instead of chase the latest craze, so I didn't bother. No time and energy to even try.

What? Nobody excited for Prime Day, no more?

Maybe I’ll glance at my wish list and see if anything is a possibility, but I think I’m tapped out after the Criterion sale.

I bought the Back To The Future Trilogy 4K UHD with each of the films in their own case and the last two Iron Maiden Funko Pops that I need to complete the collection.

Purple Rain 4K

Bought a "Like New" Sony WH-1000 XM4 headset for $133. That's much less than the $200 sale price, let alone the $349 MSRP for those headphones. I don't need them, but I heard they were much better for noise canceling than my Beats, and I'd pay almost any price to stop yearing my wife's reality TV crap when I am unwinding at bedtime.

I ordered a Ryzen 7 5800XT CPU to replace the 2700X I have in a system I built in 2019 (I think). According to the motherboard manufacturer, it will work. I'm not ready to totally upgrade an entire system. ALso a tube of decent thermal compound although I do have tiny tubes of generic stuff. Hey it was on sale!!

Couple pairs of basketball shorts, couple shirts, South Park BLU 4K, a 10th (?) Cobra Trooper figure, and one thing I actually need, a new cuttingboard.

I love these, I am using them now. The noise canceling is great.

My wife and I use 2 Motorola Moto G Power 2020 phones, like them just fine, but they're 4G. I have a pair of Moto G Power 2024 5G phones in my cart, saved for later so I can get pricing updates. With Prime Day, those phones went down in price quite a bit, not game changing, but not bad at all. Only problem is I'm now looking at the Moto G Power 2025 models which were not affected by Prime Day and are $260 ea. (vs. $170 ea. for the 2024's). Fortunately, our 2020's are still working just fine, they just have Android 11 on them, which is still functional, just old hat (so to speak).

That was the only thing in my cart (of 57 items, saved for later) that was affected by Prime Day. I'm not looking through 50 pages of crap just to see if there's anything I might be interested in, so that is my Prime Day.

Easily the weakest Prime Day deals since the tradition started. Aside from haphazardly matching Target's media sale, there aren't many blockbuster savings.

I had the Moto G Power 2020 and switched to the Moto G Power 2024 last year. I like it so far. If you can wait until Black Friday the 2025 model will probably be around $200.

Grabbed some off brand Ace Bandages also. Not much this year for sure.

Anyone expecting anything from the upcoming Amazon "Prime Big Deal Days"?

I've cut way back on Amazon this year so haven';t spent too much time attempting to find if they might have any deals that interest me.

Honestly, not much. Prime now mostly seems like Amazon's way of gatekeeping who their customers are. I'm sure we'll see a few price cuts on media but mostly pricematches.

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No and I never do. Those "sales" always have the look and feel of a clearance sale of overstocked junk.

Junk?!?! Is the 14th GI Joe Classified Cobra Trooper action figure I’ve bought “Junk”?!!!

Or sometimes companies (not just Amazon) raise the prices before the "sale" and later decrease prices at the start of the "sale" . Therefore it ends up being virtually same price or sometimes a bit higher than the original price.

So far I've picked up

My first pair of jeans in a decade
A meat chopper
Some blue jean overalls for my daughter for Christmas
AA Batteries
Some new crazy looking preworkout

there's a thread for that!!

I picked up an Osprey backpack that's usually ~$250 for under $135. I was in the market for this for a while and was at REI today trying a few on. When I went on Amazon to see if they had an extension belt (they don't, but Osprey does, directly), I found the bag I was looking at at the discount, so I went for it. Can't recall buying something on these Amazon days in years until now.

Did you get any classic Vipers?