INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News AgencyAmazon Prime Day 2018 will likely fall on July 10th this year - the second Tuesday in July
deals pages and buying guides pointing readers to the best deals and the best products! Prime day has always taken place on the second
Tuesday in July, so that's why we've got our money on Amazon Prime Day 2018 taking place on July 10th.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 toolsThe figures for headphones, toothbrushes, kitchen items and power tools are for
best Amazon Prime Day deals
In 2017 the best Prime Day deals included the PlayStation 4, high quality headphones, Oral-B Bluetooth toothbrushes
Other top deals included:Amazon Devices: Echo speakers, Kindles, Fire TV StickPressure cooker: the Instant Pot Duo80 cooker was $40
offPhilips Hue: smart bulbs were 50% off in US and UKLG OLED TV: $700 savings on 65-inch LG OLED TVs in the USMicrosoft Surface Pro 4:
back to $129 the following day
Reader, we bought it.Checking other devices can be illuminating, though
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 our pressure cooker, are genuine (and no doubt arranged with the supplier way in advance to trade margin for volume)
The RRP on those only exists to give retailers a laugh.What were the weirdest deals this yearWhere do we start There was 40% off cream made
from sheep placentas, 27% off Yeti Garden Statues, 40% off a Viking-style drinking horn and 20% off a hot dog toaster
You could get 14 dollars off a 12-pack of Perky Jerky Turkey, 20% off a Beard Bib and 56% off glasses that apparently make your eyes think
through the medium of Muppets
importance of reading the reviews.The Echo Dot was the most-bought item on Prime Day in the UK this yearSo what is Amazon Prime Day
According to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, some 80 million people were already Prime members before Prime Day 2017; in 2016 it
Amazon also reports that sales via the Amazon app more than doubled and "tens of millions of people" used the app to buy stuff on Prime Day
As Amazon puts it, Black Friday is largely about gifts for other people - it takes place just at the start of the Christmas shopping season
- but Prime Day is all about Amazon
Sorry, you! It's all about you! Ahem.The overwhelming majority of decent deals on Prime Day were on things you might buy for yourself or for
There were good deals on laptops and consoles too, of course, but they were alongside deals on hammocks, juicers, robot vacuum cleaners and
Prime Day 2017 was 30 hours long
No doubt Prime Day 2018 will be longer still
big, not everything went according to plan on Amazon Prime Day this 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 UK 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.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
Dell ran 'Black Friday In July' on Prime Day this year, Toys R Us offered 20% off everything, Best Buy took $200 off Dysons and $70 off the
Apple Watch Series 2 and JC Penney ran its Penney Palooza sale
Wal-Mart decided not to take part in the frenzy, preferring to offer extra discounts on in-store collections instead.The Fire TV Stick was
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 at an awful lot of Lightning cables
We did our very best to help by providing a guide to the very best Amazon Prime Day deals, but it was a right pain if you wanted to browse
Amazon's own site And it was disappointing to see deals we did want, 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 2017 as it was about Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2016.Tens of
millions of Prime members made a purchase on Prime Day 2017, more than 50 percent higher than the prior yearPrime Day 2018: any other days
82.2% of sales were via mobile devices
might just be the future of retail
As Deborah Weinswig of Fung Global Retail noted, in the West shopping is a chore
do some form of live streaming involving celebrities or stories.There was an augmented reality game where players could earn prizes and
discounts; and most significantly of all, there was a Superbowl-scale countdown featuring Katy Perry, Kobe Bryant and One Republic, live
streamed to China as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong, two important new markets
The next step is to take 11/11 truly global.Come back to TechRadar on Amazon Prime Day 2018 where we'll once again be listing the best deals
so you don't have to suffer the pain of navigating the Amazon website!o2EgYfctFddmSmpfoZhJAW.jpg#
