How you check Amazon Black Friday deals?

[Carson Dyle]

Question: How do you watch for BF deals on Amazon? Or do you?

Last year I was after a few things - some hard drives, a few others odds and ends. What I found was that none of the deal sites were keeping current with the prices, nor sending out alerts. Amazon would lower a price on an item by a significant amount for an hour or two, then it would go back up to the normal price or maybe $5 or $10 below normal. The deal sites mainly rely on users posting deals and only occasionally did anyone notice the price drops and post them as soon as they happened.

I found that the only thing I could do was add items to my shopping cart (or Saved for Later) and keep checking the cart, where Amazon shows you any items that have changed in price. And the deals weren't only on Thanksgiving or Black Friday, but last through the weekend. So four days or so of that silliness.

 

[JTsyo]

I've heard of a list you could make and they would ping you when it went on sale. Not sure of the details.

Here's a list of stuff and some other details.

$99.99 Kindle Paperwhite (regular price starts at $119)
$30 off Kindle and Kindle for Kids Bundle
$34.99 Fire 7-inch tablet (regularly $50)
Fire Kids Edition for $84.99 (regularly $100)
$25 off Amazon Fire TV (regularly $100)
$15 off Amazon Fire TV Stick (regularly $40) and Amazon Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote
Up to 45% off select Samsung and LG TVs, including:
Samsung 32-inch 1080p LED TV for $177.99
LG 49-inch 1080p LED TV for less than $370
Samsung 75-inch 1080p Smart LED TV for less than $2,000
A top-selling 60-inch 4K LED TV for $799.99
TCL 55-inch Roku Smart LED TV for $348
TCL 32-inch Roku Smart LED TV , $125
Hisense 55-inch 4K Smart LED TV, $448 (app-only deal)
Unnamed 50-inch 1080p LED TV, $149.99 (app-only deal)
Acer Home Theater Projector, $299.99
Vizio 38-inch 2.1 home theater sound bar for $79.99 (regularly $180)
$49 off Sonos 2-Room Streaming Music Starter Set (regularly $398)
40 percent off on a Polk Audio Omni S2 wireless speaker
25 percent off Denon Heos 1 wireless speakers
50 percent off Sony Extra Bass Bluetooth Headphones
50 percent off on Sennheiser HD 598 Special Edition Over-Ear Headphones in Black (Amazon-exclusive)
$100 off an Intel Dell 2-in-1 Laptop
Asus 15-inch laptop, $129
40 percent off select Acer desktops, monitors, Chromebooks and tablets
$99 Jawbone Up3 (regularly $150)
20 percent off on select Samsung Galaxy tablets
70 percent on select SanDisk memory cards and USB flash drives
A top-selling mobile printer for less than $100

 

[edro]

I wish they would say what the Asus 15-inch laptop, $129 was.
It will probably sell out in 1min. anyway.

 

[Mike64]

I wonder what the logic is, behind only sending alerts only to the mobile apps, and having so many deals available only through them, too? I don't have a smartphone and have no particular desire to stay glued to my Kindle all day, every day, for a week. As a marketing strategy, it just seems destined to alienate a lot of people - it certainly pisses me right off..

 

[TwiceOver]

All I want from there is the Kindle Fire Kids edition tablet for $85, but who knows *when* it will be on sale.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Looking for a PS4 + games for $300.

Right now there is a PS4 w/Uncharted Remakes for $300. But, I want a few more games.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Pretty decent deals. I wonder what the $150 Unnamed 50" TV will be.......

 

[balloonshark]

I wonder what the logic is, behind only sending alerts only to the mobile apps, and having so many deals available only through them, too? I don't have a smartphone and have no particular desire to stay glued to my Kindle all day, every day, for a week. As a marketing strategy, it just seems destined to alienate a lot of people - it certainly pisses me right off..

I feel the same way. I wanted a couple of things on Amazon Prime Day and got screwed over by those stupid waiting lists. I was more than happy to buy my fire stick from Best Buy and Fire Phone from ebay. I'm not bending over backwards to give Amazon my money.

 

[JTsyo]

I wonder what the logic is, behind only sending alerts only to the mobile apps, and having so many deals available only through them, too? I don't have a smartphone and have no particular desire to stay glued to my Kindle all day, every day, for a week. As a marketing strategy, it just seems destined to alienate a lot of people - it certainly pisses me right off..

Point is to push their app. I mean really why would you wan their app since you can just visit their site on your browser. This gives you a reason.

 

[Mike64]

Point is to push their app. I mean really why would you wan their app since you can just visit their site on your browser. This gives you a reason.

Yeah, I guess... though I don't really see why they'd want to push it to the exclusion of computer-based users. A customer is a customer, after all...

 

[balloonshark]

Some of the Kindle readers and Kindle Fire kids bundle is on sale now.

 

[balloonshark]

Some of the deals are live now. I just grabbed the $35 7" Fire tablet.

 

[Scooby Doo]

The Fire tablet for $35 is ok if you don't mind having ads on the lock-screen otherwise it costs $15 to remove them, putting you back at retail price.

 

[tsupersonic]

Amazon has got the worst site layout, can't tell what the freaking deals are. Nothing is of interest

 

[Mike64]

The Fire tablet for $35 is ok if you don't mind having ads on the lock-screen otherwise it costs $15 to remove them, putting you back at retail price.

I honestly can't imagine why anyone would pay even $1 to remove the ads. I almost never look at the stuff that's advertised, but at worst, you see the ad for all of a literally second or two between turning it on and swiping past the screen - OK maybe 3 seconds if you use a password...

 

[Leyawiin]

Amazon has got the worst site layout, can't tell what the freaking deals are. Nothing is of interest

Seriously. I use Newegg and the Hover Hound addon for Chrome/Firefox from HardOCP to shop there. Find items on Newegg, hover the mouse over the price and it'll show the price at Amazon (and Tigerdirect). Its easier than fighting with Amazon's convoluted search system.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1783952

 

[mafia]

Anyone know when the 149.99 50 inch TV will go live?

 

[RossMAN]

Anyone know when the 149.99 50 inch TV will go live?

Unless you're willing to manually refresh the page or install a script, I would subscribe to this SD thread.

If it goes live online it will sell out rather quickly.

 

[cisco]

I saw on amazon a company named signalock, checked their website and they have a Black Friday ad on their site starts at midnight until supplies run out, try searching the amazon sellers websites for sales