Who's ready for the Amazon 20th anniversary sale? [July 15th]

[zerocool84]

The PS4 deal was sold out in seconds, though.

That's obviously not Amazon's fault, those people that have no lives are at fault.

 

[MSCoder610]

so, I had been waiting for that Vizio 4K TV that someone linked earlier...it was never in the "upcoming list" all day long.

Left the desk to go do some other work for about 30 minutes, came back...it was now in the sale and sold out (apparently $599.00, 22% off).

what a crock of horse shit. I think the fix is on. I'm doubting this was ever up for sale, legit.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TZY5JC6?ref_=gb1h_tit_m12_6162_be833497&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

I actually got that (at $599). The only way I knew about it was from a SlickDeals thread that had been posted earlier in the day, though. So I had the actual product page open, refreshed at the right time, and the Lightning Deal price showed up. I don't think it was ever in the Upcoming list.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Well it is spattered on the front page of Yahoo that Walmart out did Amazon. Amazon is going to get some bad press out of this. Lucky for Amazon they have that quick shipping or else I'd jump ship.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-wallops-amazon-on-“prime-day”-153951428.html

That's the plan. Now they can get free publicity for the epic fail and more free publicity when they announce a do-over next month.

 

[CurseTheSky]

The sale wouldn't have been half bad without all the hype.

Amazon themselves claimed it was going to be bigger than Black Friday. In my opinion it fell WELL short.

 

[Ns1]

Evidently they sold 35k box sets of LOTR. LOL

 

[thescreensavers]

Every deal I wanted

 

[Phoenix86]

The handful of things I wanted were gone in seconds.

The few things I might have been interested in looked like junk. There were some I almost bought but wound up spending zip.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Evidently they sold 35k box sets of LOTR. LOL

Hey, that's a good boxset of movies if you haven't already owned it for four years.

 

[balloonshark]

The Stanley 16 oz 1-Handed Stainless Steel Hot Mug deal I missed I was able to find at walmart at the same price. Walmarts eight o'clock whole bean coffee is also a few cents cheaper per ounce but their largest is only 36 oz. versus amazon's 42 oz.

I'm still on the waiting list for the kindle and can't get on the list for the fire stick.

 

[zinfamous]

Damn, that sucks. I suggest get rid of the pets.

I dropped the one pet off in DC a few weeks back, along with my guns. :\

...Do you think they are my fleas? :hmm:

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Guys should I pull the trigger on this?

http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Lu...im_198_2?&ie=UTF8&refRID=1AF41ZV91KF1NBB2R1ZK

Been wanting a nice carry on. Didn't realize that this counts towards the luggage discount. It's $192.77 out the door. I can either get 5% cash back on it or 6 months no interest.

 

[zinfamous]

I actually got that (at $599). The only way I knew about it was from a SlickDeals thread that had been posted earlier in the day, though. So I had the actual product page open, refreshed at the right time, and the Lightning Deal price showed up. I don't think it was ever in the Upcoming list.

I hate you!

I knew about it because it was posted in this thread, so I also had the product page open. ...oh, well, I had the page open for the 50" TV, not the 49" (seriously--who the fuck produces a 49" TV...especially if they make a 50" TV? This makes no sense)

Anyway, I was also checking the "upcoming sales" constantly, and it was never there. Only some garbage "sound bar" doohicky that no one should own. I left computer work to go to normal science work for about 30 minutes, and then it showed up on the sale page as...sold out. wtf.

Anyway, ti would have been a dicey buy for me: would have to ship to DC (where I'll be moving in ~2 months) to a possible work address and find some way to get it from there to the apartment, all while on the other coast. Also, $500 was my target. whatever.

 

[Nograts]

Hey, that's a good boxset of movies if you haven't already owned it for four years.

Haha you still buy physical media.

 

[Aharami]

I didn't buy anything except for that $10 back on gift cards.

same.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

bad sale imo. too much filler and not enough good deals that were accessible. there needs to be a better way to curate the deals. maybe something like steam with the curated pages. it was easier for me to wait for someone to post a deal on something than try to scroll through the active deals that weren't already sold out.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I really think the sale was rigged. I have a number of items I had opened that went out of stock immediately....that is, until the time of their sale was over, then mysteriously, they had tons of stock at regular price.

PS. The prices were higher on sale than what I paid 2 years ago.

The sale was a joke. Anyone trying to defend it well BWAHAHAHHA.

 

[ImpulsE69]

n/m

 

[EvilYoda]

I was setting up an event today so initially I was bummed about not being able to stay current with the deals...but after a few glances at my phone, I stopped caring. I picked up a tiny Sandisk 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive yesterday for $10 or whatever and was pretty happy about that.

The only thing that caught my eye was the Anova and even then it wasn't a big enough of a sale to make me "have" to buy it.

 

[sportage]

The one thing that caught my attention was a Sony Flash Drive 16GB @ $5.99.
Added to my cart and went to check out and the price in cart had jumped to $12.
The going full price, btw.
Deleted, closed amazon browser, nothing lost nothing gained.
Good try amazon. You almost had me fooled. hehe

 

[Ns1]

The sale was a joke. Anyone trying to defend it well BWAHAHAHHA.

Yet they still managed to sell 3x what they do on a normal July day ^_^

 

[ImpulsE69]

Yet they still managed to sell 3x what they do on a normal July day ^_^

Yea..crazy right? It's like the Ebay bidding syndrome. Number of people here who bought stuff they didn't even want, just to say they bought something. I suppose cheaper than normal, even if it is just a few dollars is still a sale, but the way they promoted it was obviously bait and switch and a bit on the shady side.

 

[RossMAN]

Fortunately I had to work today and shopping behind a corporate firewall using ancient IE 8.x, insufficient RAM is super slow, glitchy and just sucks when you have 6+ tabs open.

So I only ordered 2 things this and something for my wife.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

i missed out on that 175cc husqvarna pushmower for 299 from 499. the deck on my cub cadet isnt looking so great.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Well I survived the storm - if we can agree to call it that - by spending $0.00. Back to Slickdeals and Woot!

 

[xaeniac]

Jeff Bezos was quite ready for the poop deals!