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Amazon Prime Day is coming!
Amazon Prime Day is July 16 (afternoon)-July 17 (all day). If you're thinking of buying any electronics (or anything), I'd advise waiting for Prime Day. If you don't have Prime, this would be a good t...
Counting down the minutes. :)
Well, I sort of did, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to how it works, and I can't find any definitive info.
What I mean is, are the "sales" dynamic, or does anything and everything that's going to go on sale do so all at once? And, are those items on sale for the full 36 hours? Or, is it the type of sale that you'll have something pop up on the app that says "all such and such is 40% off for the next three hours!"?
If it's dynamic, forget it. I'm not wasting my time. Nor am I going to sit there, on the wait, with my phone glued to me. Heck, I've never shopped on Black Friday, either. If not dynamic, I'd look through what they have on sale at my leisure.
But, as it stands, I only wanted to get a couple of things, anyway, and only one of the items might have been included in the sale (Sandisk micro sd cards). I decided to not take the chance of them running out of stock, and I wanted to beat the rush, so I placed my order shortly after midnight on Monday. And, as it turns out, the cards were reduced in price, anyway, so I got lucky. :) Due to Prime's two day shipping it shows that I should receive my order on Wednesday. It's now Tuesday morning and my order still hasn't shipped. Unless they're going to ship it overnight I'm not going to receive it tomorrow. :( If that happens I'm really going to question the value of Prime, as the two day shipping is the ONLY reason I decided to get it.
- GabeU, if a Prime eligible item comes even a day late, call customer service and complain. They will generally give you a free month of Prime to make it up to you.
From what I've seen, it's dynamic. Things go on sale and remain so for a few hours, and customers have to place a claim on them. Once an item is 100% claimed, you can't get it at the discount.
I personally don't join in the festivities. :) Edit: I actually have spent some minutes watching the animations at the top of the page. Those are cool.
As for Prime, did the item you buy say it was 2-day shipping? Occasionally, some Prime items are listed are taking longer to ship. If it was a 2-day and it didn't arrive in the two days, I'd contact customer service.
maratsade wrote:As for Prime, did the item you buy say it was 2-day shipping? Occasionally, some Prime items are listed are taking longer to ship. If it was a 2-day and it didn't arrive in the two days, I'd contact customer service.
Yep. All three of the items I ordered said 2 day shipping, and each item showed, before ordering, that I could expect it to arrive on Wednesday, July 18th if I ordered within the next 12 hours and some odd minutes, which I did. And in the confirmation email it shows Wednesday as the arrival date.
Again, it could still get here by the end of tomorrow, but they'd have to next day or overnight the order.
It was actually around 12:15AM Monday morning, though the order shows Sunday.
From the site...
From the confirmation email...
Edit: All three items are still showing as in stock.
