INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Amazon Prime Day 2018 in the US is next month, and our exclusive reporting on the 36-hour deals day (and a half) reveals exactly when you
It's like Christmas shopping in July.When is Amazon Prime Day in the US What items will see deep discounts What are the best Prime Day deals
for 2018 We'll explore all of these questions in our guide.Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has made plenty off of the all-encompassing retail website
It's about time you got something back for your Prime membership.When is Amazon Prime DayPlot twist: Amazon Prime Day 2018 starts at noon on
Monday, July 16 in the US and lasts until midnight on Tuesday 17th
We got the scoop when we exclusively discovered a banner image hidden on Amazon's site
It's one week later than Amazon's previous Amazon Prime Day outings, but means you'll have more time to save up for it.What deals can we
expect on Prime Day 2018Amazon loves to discount its own products first and foremost, and that means you'll see deals on Echo smart speakers
We're anticipating all-time low prices for the $50 Echo Dot ($25 maybe) and the Amazon Echo Spot (fingers crossed for $80)
announced in the US for $119.99 could get a warm reception on Amazon Prime Day, luring new customers into the Amazon Prime family
We've hold off on buying, as we've noted in Why we're waiting until Amazon Prime Day to buy the Fire TV Cube.Nintendo Switch may be getting
We're even more certain that PS4 and Xbox One console bundles will see a price drop, or at least come with more value-added games to sweeten
Microsoft's Xbox One X and Sony's PS4 Pro are competing heavily, which is no doubt good for everyone else on a day like Prime Day 2018
That's why we've also written about waiting for an Xbox One X Prime Day deal.Philips Hue bulbs are a great way to upgrade your home into a
That can be expensive at full price, so we're waiting until July 16 and 17 to see how many of the multi-colored lighting solutions we can
scoop up.Cheap 4K TVs are a staple of every sales holiday, and Amazon Prime Day is no different here
We're already running a US cheap TV page
Expect even lower prices from manufacturers like Samsung, LG, and TCL, to name a few..The Echo and Echo Dot were the most-bought items last
Prime DayWhat is Amazon Prime DayAmazon Prime Day is the retailer's big members-only summer sale and it's been a massive success in the few
short years it's been going
If you want to get involved with the best discounts though, you'll need to be a member of Amazon Prime
With free next-day delivery on thousands of items and the excellent Amazon Instant Video streaming service being just two of the
membership's key highlights, millions of you are already signed up.Brilliantly though, you can always sign up for a free 30-day trial to
take advantage of the sale and other membership benefits
And if you don't want to continue the service after Prime Day, just cancel the trial before the 30 days are up
Amazon know too well that many shoppers will find it hard to say goodbye to those super perks though.Amazon Prime 30-day trialPrime gets you
free superfast delivery, exclusive deals, video and music streaming and lots more
There's a no-commitment 30-day free trial too, which you can get by signing up to Prime here:- US free trial- Canada free trialMore people
As of April 2018, Amazon confirmed it had passed 100 million subscribers for Amazon Prime, that's up from around 80 million before Prime Day
last year and 58 million in 2016
That's some pretty incredible year-on-year growth for the last few years
We wouldn't be surprised to see Amazon Prime's 2018 numbers grow dramatically again by the time Prime Day arrives.Amazon also reported that
sales via the Amazon app more than doubled year-on-year and "tens of millions of people" used the app to buy items last Prime Day.So is
Amazon Prime Day just another Black Friday Actually, no
As Amazon puts it, Black Friday is largely about gifts for other people (it's ok, we had a laugh at that too) - it takes place just at the
start of the Christmas shopping season - but Prime Day is all about treating yourself.The overwhelming majority of decent deals on Prime Day
were on things you might buy for yourself or for your home
There were good deals on laptops and consoles too of course, but they were alongside deals on hammocks, juicers, robot vacuum cleaners and
Last year's Prime Day was 30 hours long starting at 9pm the night before and lasting until 3am the day after
We wouldn't be surprised to see Prime Day 2018 last even longer
Prime Day 2022 may well start before Prime Day 2021 finishes.Prime Day: do Amazon's rivals respondThey did
It was Free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven and Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-fil-A, which offered free food to anybody in an animal costume
Bazaarvoice, 76% of US Prime Day shoppers visited rival retailers to check whether they were getting the best deals
Prime Day deals at Amazon, we'll keep an eye on all your favourite retailers to see what bargains they have
At the very least we expect some sneaky price matching from many stores like Walmart, Newegg and Jet in the US.So are Prime Day deals really
supermarkets on Black Friday), but many deals are genuine
The camel site is pretty reliable and a great way to check how good a deal really is and it works
It'll also show you how likely a price is to come back around again, meaning your spending budget might be better spent on something with a
went up to $209.10, dropping back to $129 the following day
The Kindle Paperwhite price goes up and down more often than a kangaroo on a bouncy castle, moving from $119.99 to $99.99 every fortnight or
Some deals, such as the pressure cooker, are genuine (and no doubt arranged with the supplier way in advance to trade margin for volume)
not everything went according to plan on Amazon Prime Day last year
Some deals were more expensive on Prime Day than they were normally, while other deals simply reproduced deals that had been available the
at the ordering stage either
While Amazon boasts about the fastest-ever Prime Day delivery of just 14 minutes between ordering and delivery, many of us saw our next-day
or two-day deliveries become even longer.Pro tip from us here at TheIndianSubcontinent: if any of your Amazon Prime delivery dates are
longer than they should be, complain to Amazon and you might get something back
A free month of Prime added to your sub for example.The Fire TV Stick was down to $34.99Could Amazon do betterWe think so
One of the biggest problem with Prime Day was actually finding the deals, which involved wading through lots of irrelevant products: Amazon
specific kinds of computers or accessories.Finding interesting deals meant looking past an awful lot of Lightning cables
We're here to make things easier for you though as we'll provide a guide to the very best Amazon Prime Day deals, as it can be a right pain
such as Philips Hue bulbs, limited to single orders per customer
biggest problems were with availability and delivery, though
And seeing Lightning Deals disappear before you had time to read them was particularly frustrating
Not everybody is accessing Amazon on a super-speedy broadband network, and logging into the mobile app at the right time to see the deal had
already sold out was a particular torture for phone users.What can we learn about Black Friday and Cyber MondayThe short answer: not much
day for mobile payments, with a total of $3.34 billion sold in the US alone
Expect Amazon to be just as enthusiastic about Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 as it was for the last few years
Although truth be told, we reckon the Amazon device deals on Prime Day will be slightly better than Black Friday.Last year tens of millions
of Prime members made a purchase on Prime Day
That was a 50% increase year-on-yearWhat were the best Prime Day deals last yearAs ever, you can count on us to find the very best Amazon
huge task ahead of them last year with an incredible number of items needing to be shipped for next day delivery via Amazon Prime.Amazon
Prime Day sales last year:3.5 million toys50,000 TP-Link smart plugs200,000 dresses300,000 lightbulbs100,000 Amazon Launchpad items45,000
pairs of headphones32,000 electric toothbrushes52,000 kitchen items37,000 power toolsAs you can probably imagine, the reaction to Amazon
Prime Day on Twitter featured snark and moaning in roughly equal measures
through the medium of Muppets
importance of reading the reviews.Come back to TheIndianSubcontinent on Amazon Prime Day 2018 where we'll once again be listing the best
