What Are You Looking For: Prime Day on Tuesday, June 21

[activeStick]

Reminder to CP - Amazon Prime Day is this coming Tuesday starting at 12:01 AM PT and ends on Wednesday at 11:59PM PT.

I'm going to see if there are any deals on air conditioner units, bluetooth ear buds w/microphone (strongly leaning to Samsung Galaxy buds) and a new couch.

Anything you planning on potentially buying?

[Fuzz]

Not planning anything. In the past I've found the deals no better than random price drops through the year. Install the Keepa extension and and you can see the price history for anything, to see if you are actually getting the deal they say you are.

[sleepingmoose]

I thought Prime Day was postponed in Canada? Unless you're shopping on Amazon.com?

https://www.amazon.ca/primeday?pf_rd...ref_=pd_gw_unk

[rubecube]

Is "Jeff Bezos to get struck by a truck and have his wealth redistributed to his exploited warehouse workers" an appropriate answer?

[Hack&Lube]

I feel like this event is overhyped and I've never really found anything I really want or need whenever it comes around.

Also Amazon always wins as I keep my Prime subscription around for another month when I hear news its coming up and then forget to cancel it.

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by sleepingmoose

I thought Prime Day was postponed in Canada? Unless you're shopping on Amazon.com?

https://www.amazon.ca/primeday?pf_rd...ref_=pd_gw_unk

I did not know that! Hmm... that kind of sucks as I was hoping to find some deals.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Also, June 21 is monday.

[RichieRich]

I'm looking to stop my wife from buying more unnecessary crap and to pay my future self the ability to retire that much sooner. Money "saved" buying something is still reducing my bank balance.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Also, June 21 is monday.

And it's my birthday

[Maritime Q-Scout]

All I want for Prime Day, or any day really, is for Amazon to ship my order in a timely fashion.

It takes 2 days to get to my house. Fine.

Why tell me it'll arrive in 15 days then ship 13 days later? If I order it on Monday, ship it like Tuesday, not a week from next Thursday.

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by sleepingmoose

I thought Prime Day was postponed in Canada? Unless you're shopping on Amazon.com?



https://www.amazon.ca/primeday?pf_rd...ref_=pd_gw_unk

Yup, Canada and India I believe. Been mentioned on the radio many times.
Also too bad was hoping to update my Netgear R7000 router, still works fine but is getting a little long in the tooth.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

All I want for Prime Day, or any day really, is for Amazon to ship my order in a timely fashion.

It takes 2 days to get to my house. Fine.

Why tell me it'll arrive in 15 days then ship 13 days later? If I order it on Monday, ship it like Tuesday, not a week from next Thursday.

That has to 3rd party sales.

"prime" only man

[ZedMan]

Definitely has happened to me as well on prime items.

[FireGilbert]

The sky writers were at work in Brisbane today, writing “Amazon Prime Day” for all to see. Stolen from Reddit:

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

That has to 3rd party sales.

"prime" only man

Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca

Ordered a book on June 15th and no movement yet.

[photon]

[chemgear]

No deals for you!

[Yamer]

"Safety of employees" is rich.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Yamer

"Safety of employees" is rich.

I think it's true. There's been outbreaks at the warehouses so they shut them down for safety reasons. I've had a ton of issues with orders lately and I had to contact Amazon several times for multiple things that didn't show up to get a refund (some were like 2-3 weeks late).

About a week ago, one of the agents I spoke with said they've had outbreaks at several of their warehouses across North America so had to shut them down for a few weeks and divert orders to other warehouses (but this doesn't necessarily work for some product housed in specific warehouses that were shut down).

The agent also mentioned that she was aware that there was some outbreak with Canada Post or the group that delivers to Canada Post or something, so they had to divert packages to be shipped from a different location which was potentially adding a day once the packages were ready for delivery.

If you notice that the seller is amazon.com.ca (vs amazon.ca), those I believe are shipping out of a US warehouse location to be redistributed from a Canadian warehouse location. With additional border stuff and additional travel, those packages are especially prone to getting caught up and inexplicably delayed (which was my situation several times).

[CorsiHockeyLeague]