- When is Amazon Prime Day 2020?
What do you need to know
about Amazon Prime Day
and what should you not buy?
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would not buy for Prime Day,
what deals you can expect,
and more importantly,
when is Prime Day 2020,
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The big question now,
when is Amazon Prime Day 2020?
And I should begin with
this quick disclaimer
that, of course, I host
live programming for Amazon.
I am not their employee, I'm
an independent contractor,
and none of what I'm going to share
is an opinion expressed by Amazon.
This is just what I know
as a consumer reporter
that I've been researching since 2015.
That was the first Prime Day, 2015.
Now, five years later,
Prime Day typically falls mid-July.
Usually right around that
12 to 14th July mark.
Which means if you are
watching this video right now,
Prime Day should be happening today
or it should have already happened,
and what you might not know
is Prime Day is postponed.
The big question is when
is Prime Day postponed to?
And I'm gonna get to how I
have the information I have
in a moment,
but the main question I'm
getting from folks right now
is what deals can you expect
on Prime Day when it happens
and what should you not buy?
So I wanna begin with your first,
most important piece of information,
which is what not to buy,
and when I tell you right now
I wouldn't buy anything made by Amazon
within one month of Prime Day.
Some of you guys are
gonna immediately assume,
Well, that's just all
Echo products, right,
or anything that has
the word Amazon in it.
And these days Amazon is actually involved
with many of its own lines
and it can get very confusing,
so I just wanna show you some
of the lines you might not be aware of.
Don't buy this within
a month of Prime Day,
and then I'll explain
when I believe Prime
Day is going to happen.
When it comes to furniture,
Amazon has a brand called Rivet, or Rivet,
however they want you to pronounce it,
but I'm gonna pronounce it
Rivet for the sake of it,
and that means deals, like you
see right now on your screen,
$850 bucks down to 709,
just a glimpse of what will
occur when prime day does happen
and prime day as I said
has been rescheduled,
but rivet is a brand
and then stone and beam.
I don't know if you
guys are aware of that,
but stone and beam right here,
this is kind of how it looks.
This is a line you want to avoid
within a month of prime day.
And that also includes Amazon basics.
Now amazon basics would be the example
of the third furniture brand
and Amazon basics makes all
sorts of things.
I would also avoid the Amazon basics brand
within a month of prime day,
the second purchase to avoid
within a month of prime day.
And don't worry I'm not
trying to tease you.
I'm gonna get to all
my data the do not buy
is really what I love
showcasing on the channel.
Televisions that have the fire
TV operating system built in.
So these are deals that you can
come to expect on prime day,
Amazon generally partners
with three television brands
on prime day.
The first is Toshiba, the second is TCL,
and the third is generally Sony
with some subpar Samsung reductions,
in my opinion, but Toshiba,
which has the fire TV
system embedded in it
a $280 TV down to 200 bucks
will likely come closer
to 169 on prime day.
And Insignia television,
which is actually best buys
in house brand generally sees
some reductions as well cause they have
the fire TV operating system built in.
The $60 you see off this television,
it will be at least a hundred dollars off
on prime day brands you can shop from now,
which include the TCL 65 inch TV
that I'm going to show you
like this one right here
is a safe purchase because this television
is paired with the Roku operating system,
which is actually a competitor to Amazon.
Although this television works
with the Amazon Alexa device,
it has a Roku enabled television,
which you can see right there.
And Amazon wants to focus on
its own products on prime day.
Why?
Well, when they can basically
give you an echo for free,
it's not just out of generosity,
it's that so your household is embedded
within the Amazon ecosystem.
So that that's one of the benefits
of prime day Amazon celebrating itself.
It would be weird if
Amazon wasn't doing that,
it would be almost as though Sam's club
created its own celebration prime day
and then offered discounts
on Kirkland products
made by Costco right there.
They're going to favor themselves with
that being said,
this brings me to the next set of products
I would not buy within a
month of Amazon Prime Day.
That includes the fire TV stick.
So the fire TV stick
is a $39 typical price
for the non-4K version.
This is going to be $19
and 99 cents for prime day
in my estimation.
And then if you gO to
the fire TV stick 4K,
this is going to be $29 and 99 cents.
So roughly $20 off the
discounts that Amazon
is pushing every prime
day, almost identical.
So that's how I'm able to
say that with some authority.
I would under no circumstances
ever buy an Echo Dot
for $49 and 99 cents over
the course of a year.
This typically retails for about 29.99
and then on prime day, I expect
this to go as low as 19.99
again for Prime Day 2020 again.
I'm gonna get to the prime
day stats in a moment.
If you're in the market
for the Instant Pot,
I actually would not buy one right now.
I've just had a few sent to me to test
and I'm going to speculate
that the deal you see
on your screen right now
is going to be at least 10
or $15 better on Prime Day.
Instant pot is one of the big reductions
that we see on prime day.
I also want to mention to
you guys that Instant pot
has its own air fryer brand
called Vortex relatively new.
And these are the type of deals that you
are going to see on prime day.
If you ever see a price, for example,
at 58% off this six Quart
Air Fryer, it's a great grab
that would be a safe purchase.
But if you don't see prices like this
within a month of prime day,
I would not stock up on
anything from instant pot sorry,
which is a competitor also has deals
that will far exceed what you
see on your screen right now.
So these multi cookers these air fryers,
not a good grab within
a month of prime day.
The three other product lines,
I would not touch within
a month of prime day.
And don't worry I'm gonna
get to the dates in a moment,
include the Amazon eero mesh WiFi system.
This will reduce to
approximately 199 or less
on Amazon prime day.
So if you do need a
reliable mesh WiFi router,
whole home coverage
system do not buy this now
just as an example.
If you are watching this video right now,
and you're thinking oh Deal
Guy come on that's not helpful
I need an eeuro mesh system right now.
That tp-link makes a
competitor, which is on sale.
Let me see if I can find
that for you here we go.
So if you need a competitor,
this one's on sale,
but you eeuro mesh is not.
And Amazon has also purchased
two other major brands,
which we'll see wide
reductions on prime day.
That includes Blink
Security Systems and Ring.
A lot of you may not
have realized that Blink
is now a part of the Amazon product line.
So all of these non reduced prices you see
on your screen within a month of prime day
do not touch Blink in my opinion.
And while there are some
nice ring deals like
this Ring Video Doorbell.
The free echodot bundles,
and some of the better
savings tied to these deals,
which will exceed $50 off per product
are going to be better purchases
within a month of prime day.
With that being said a
reminder, the Echo Show 5
is going to be $59 on
prime day and most likely
the Echo Show 8 will be 89.
So $10 less than Amazon's best
deal price over the course
of the year is what I see on prime day.
And the Echo Show 10,
my goodness If you ever see
it at 229, I would wait,
that's going to be
reduced by almost a $100.
The echo spot again, $10 better
than what you see right now.
So this is 89 bucks right
now with a huge deal
that's being run on this.
It will be $79 or less on prime day.
So the big question,
one of the main reasons
you watched this video,
other than to see my tie
that keeps getting crooked
as I speak at my slightly oversized nose,
which is now shiny, cause I
get sweaty when I get excited.
Prime day is expected to
be the week of October 5th,
but that is assuming that things
don't get more catastrophic
than they are in your community
in the United States right now.
So, if you are watching this
and things are going great
in your community and you're
feeling upbeat about the world,
we can likely expect prime day.
If things are are taking some turns,
obviously the focus is
not going to be on Amazon.
If things are a certain way
and I can't predict the future,
but I will tell you a lot of people
are incorrectly predicting it.
And just because you read a headline
that says prime day 2020,
and I've seen a lot of people
out here just saying that prime day
is going to be postponed.
There's not a whole lot
of research tied to this.
This is an article from
digital trends on prime day.
And there's basically no
information in this article
other than that it's
coming later than expected
as early as August, I just
don't think that's going
to be the case.
A lot of media outlets will
write when is prime day 2020
and a headline so you
can end up on their page
and they can get some great
advertising onto your computer.
But that doesn't mean they actually
have any new concrete information.
This is a Tom's guide and this says
it may happen in September.
And all I know which again is nothing tied
to speaking on behalf
of Amazon as a company,
a leaked memo to a couple of distributors,
which I think business
insider picked up indicated
to those merchants that
they can expect Prime day,
the week of October 5th.
Now generally prime day
happens between the wee hours
of Monday and Tuesday, 12:01
a.m. Pacific Standard Time
Amazon being a Seattle based company
by about 3:01 a.m. Eastern
Tuesday, October 6th,
you can expect some of the
best deals in the world
available on amazon.com in the Amazon app.
And I've got tips and
tricks to really score
the best prime day deals
first and the fastest
But this is contingent
upon the state of the world
in October and I can't
offer any predictions
other than that, the timing is perhaps
a little bit better for
our prime day in October.
A lot of people are more aware
of their holiday wishlist,
their shopping needs,
what they need for that
Christmas Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,
whatever it is that you are
celebrating or not celebrating,
it's a time of the year where people
are looking to stock up.
It may also take some pressure off of you
to line up on black Friday,
being that you have this
massive sales day in October.
Now has everything a great
purchase on prime day?
No should you do all of your
shopping only at one retailer?
No, I'll be focusing on
best buy, Walmart, Target
as they promote deals over
the course of this year.
But obviously Prime Day
is a big discussion point
for a lot of people.
It's Black Friday,
Cyber Monday, Prime Day,
and then a couple of long
weekends over the course
of the year as the top shopping days.
So I will hook you up,
but hopefully this shows
you what not to buy,
the timing and what you absolutely want
to avoid within a month of
October 5th give or take.
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