- When is the second new Amazon Prime Day of 2022?
And what can you expect from the brand new event?
These are the top 10 things you need to know.
In the first spot, this new Holiday Prime Day
will be on October 11th and 12th.
This two-day event Amazon calls the Prime Early Access Sale
will bring substantial savings just in time for Christmas
if you know how to shop the sale correctly,
which I will explain throughout this video.
One of the big questions I get is "At what time
will Amazon release its best deals?"
9:00 AM to noon Eastern,
when everyone on the East Coast heads to work.
And then again, lunchtime for the East Coast
when other parts of the country,
including the West Coast, are getting in front
of their computers for the first time
is the best time to see the most substantial savings.
This October, Amazon will introduce a brand new
Prime Day page which brings me to point 2.
Amazon will reveal its first ever top-100 deal list,
which will include trending deals
from many of the major brands,
and that brings me to this next question.
Many of you have asked,
"What brands can we expect to see discounted?"
Since this is a holiday event, you'll see everything
from big screen TVs, which I'll discuss in a moment,
to huge savings on big kitchen names
like Ninja and Kitchen Aid to tech deals like laptops
and select items from Apple and Samsung,
plus significant discounts on select toys.
And as you can expect on both days of the sale,
I'll be right here to showcase the top offerings.
Point 3, with the economy failing
and crazy high inflation right now, your immediate thought,
may be why in the world is Amazon launching a Prime Day
hoping you'll buy more stuff right now.
The answer, it's been a tough year and retailers have
a lot of leftover inventory they need to liquidate.
And while this video is in no way to encourage you to go out
and spend all of your money to line Amazon's pockets,
if you are allocating a holiday budget for gifts this year,
the new sale from Amazon gives you the opportunity
to split your holiday spending over two months
instead of just the usual Black Friday timeframe.
Point four, what not to buy.
To further ensure you get the most bang
for your buck over the sales period, I recommend avoiding
the high end TVs, the highest end of the laptops
and gaming consoles, all of which will have
significantly better prices on Black Friday.
And the same advice applies for the big-ticket
Apple products like the new iPhone 14 and the higher end
MacBook Pros, although you'll see some nice reductions
on Air Pods, Air Tags and MacBook Airs for Prime Day.
Christmas trees as a whole are another bad purchase
to make on Prime Day as well as gift cards,
which are better purchased on Cyber Monday
and the days that precede Christmas.
Now onto another very popular question.
Point 5, should you buy your TV on this new Prime Day
or wait for Black Friday.
Amazon is promising up to 80% off
select firetv's and smart TVs.
My advice is if you want a brand new entry level
or mid-level TV and in particular you want one
that works with your Amazon Alexa-enabled devices,
this October Prime Day will be as good as Black Friday
and even feature a handful of deals you would never see
on Black Friday, because Amazon wants to justify
the existence of this new Prime Day by impressing you,
at least in the television category.
Alternatively, if you want a higher-end, top-of-the-line TV
from this or last year's model at a clearance price,
I would definitely wait for Black Friday.
And if you're wondering about toys,
I'll handle this topic later on in the video.
Point 6, some useful shopping hacks
to beat Amazon at its own game.
Amazon does not have a price match guarantee
but that does not mean you need to worry
about a better price come Black Friday.
Based on the timing of this new Prime Day,
any Prime item has a 30-day return policy attached to it.
And this 30-day return window following this Prime Day event
in October brings us to just one week before Black Friday.
By that point, all of the ad scans are released
and you'll know if something you bought will
in fact be at a lower price from another retailer,
giving you ample time to return a purchase
and get your money back before Black Friday.
Another great resource for Prime Day is
a third-party website called camelcamelcamel.com.
And if you haven't heard of it, this website gives you
the price history for any purchase on Amazon,
exposing whether a so-called Prime Day discount
is actually a deal.
I should mention not a single part of this video is
sponsored nor is Amazon paying me to make this video.
Another great trick is the day before Prime Day,
simply add any item you're contemplating purchasing
to your shopping cart and click save for later
so you have these potential purchases ready to buy
in the event they drop in price.
An alternative way to do this is
simply set up an Amazon Wish List
and add all the products you're looking to buy to that list.
And that way, the morning of Prime Day, you can wake up
and quickly realize if an item
you actually want has been reduced.
Point 7, another new aspect to Prime Day 2.0 this year
is Amazon launching a coupon section
on the Prime Day main page.
In the past, Amazon's coupons are sometimes hidden
and those clippable coupons are often difficult to click.
That changes with this Prime Day
and this new dedicated coupon page.
This is your reminder that you can stack
any of those coupons with an applicable Prime Day purchase.
Point 8, this Prime Day is restricted
to Amazon Prime members only but if you don't have
a Prime membership you can join Prime for just the day
and then cancel afterwards if you so choose.
I've posted a link below so you can sign up
for a free 30-day Prime membership trial.
And if you're kind enough to use my link,
I may benefit monetarily.
Another thing many people do not realize is there are
special discounts if you are already a Prime member
and you receive government assistance
or you happen to be a student, which I will link to below.
And now with your Amazon Prime membership, there's the added
benefit of scoring a free GrubHub+ membership.
So for whatever amount of time you are a Prime member,
you can enjoy 0 delivery fees on any food order over $12.
Point 9, you can find great Prime Day discounts
outside of amazon.com.
During Prime Day, what some people do not realize is that
if you live near any Amazon-owned stores
like Whole Foods or Amazon's Fresh grocery stores
those physical stores present additional huge deals
to greet shoppers that run in conjunction with Prime Day,
including $1 grocery deals and BOGO offers.
Point 10 is tied to another often-overlooked section
of Amazon's website that can present substantial value
during these difficult times.
And that's this Amazon Warehouse section.
On Prime days, Amazon activates additional heavy discounts
within this section of their website which include
all sorts of big-ticket items like Robo vacs and AirPods.
As an example, on Prime Day this past July,
Amazon offered an additional 20% off reduction
on these refurbished items, which often almost appear
brand new right out of the box.
And now for the bonus section.
Did you know that Amazon has also launched
an early Prime Day sale?
And in my opinion, this pre-Prime Day sale
is mediocre, at best.
You'll find some average deals on Amazon-made products,
some slightly better discounts
on no-name computer accessories.
There are also many tech home gadgets and other accessories
from decent brands that you would regularly find on Amazon
and I believe Amazon is saving its absolute best deals
for the official start of Prime Day
and I would hold off if you can.
And finally, everyone's been wondering about toys.
Toys are actually best purchased in the weeks that follow
Black Friday as we inch much closer to Christmas.
But if you're hoping to secure stock,
you might be interested in Amazon's new curated toy list
which I've linked to below, in the event
you are curious to see what's on sale.
I actually can't believe I'm here, again this year,
talking about an additional Prime Day, but I'll have
the best deals right here October 11th and 12th.
I love you. Bye-bye.