How to Avoid Overspending on Amazon Prime Day 2021
Strengthen your bank accounts and temper your nerves guys: Amazon Prime Day 2021 is just a few weeks away.
The online store’s annual mass sale will take place in June this year, a month earlier than a year earlier. Wirecutter reports that Prime Day 2021 will take place on Monday 21 June and Tuesday 22 June, which means you have less than three weeks to formulate your Prime Day game plan.
What’s on sale at Prime Day 2021?
Prime Day often includes sales of TVs, tablets, laptops, home appliances, exercise equipment, pet supplies … to be honest, almost any item sold on Amazon was discounted during the promotion. We just won’t know what the deals really are until Prime Day kicks off.
However, it’s safe to assume that many Amazon products will receive discounts, including:
- Amazon Echo Speakers, Echo Car Accessories, and Echo Smart Displays
- AmazonBasics products such as kitchen appliances, furniture, and home goods.
- Blink CCTV Cameras
- Wi-Fi routers Eero
- Fire TV streaming devices
- Kindle e-readers and Fire tablets
- Ring Cameras & Home Security Devices
Perhaps Amazon products will be available at the lowest prices – or at least the lowest prices since the last Prime Day. Add any of these you are planning to your Amazon Wishlist and you will be notified if they go on sale. But beware – you should always make sure you are actually making a deal before buying anything on Prime Day.
How to know if a Prime Day sale is good
The Amazon Prime Day landing page can be overwhelming, with many discounted items not showing on the first page, making it difficult to keep track of ongoing deals. Luckily, you can subscribe to deal notifications on the Amazon mobile app and desktop from your Amazon account settings .
Push notifications can help you close a deal before it’s over, but don’t let the excitement force you to make unnecessary purchases. Amazon will use countdown timers and other strategies that force you to buy items quickly, add extra items to your cart, or hit a certain spending threshold to unlock bonuses, but none of these are worth chasing if that means buying the things you want. don’t. actually needed. Likewise, we strongly recommend that you refrain from impulsive purchases of tech items on Prime Day without doing preliminary research, especially if you don’t recognize the brand.
Plus, there are tricky strategies that some companies use on Prime Day to make you think a product is for sale when it really isn’t. Luckily, Chrome and Edge offer built-in price tracking so you can judge if a deal is legitimate or just marketing, and there are many third-party extensions out there that will check Prime Day deals and tell you if a discounted item is worth buying.
[ CNET ] This article was published on May 28, 2021 and updated on June 2, 2021 to add the final 2021 Prime Day dates.