- I have insider information
on Amazon's huge global shopping event.
Or in this case, an event you didn't know
was kicking off right now.
Hey, guys, I'm The Deal Guy, Matt Granite.
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Before I explain this massive sale
that's about to kick off that lasts for one week
or that has already kicked off
depending on when you watch this video,
I'm gonna make sure you know what to buy
and also steer you clear of some things
that appear to be huge deals that are not actually reduced
to the extent that you believe,
so I'm really here to advocate for you a reminder
that I advocate for you around the clock,
on mattsdailydeals.com,
you're gonna find all sorts of massive reductions
including the most popular product on my website right now,
these Bluetooth earbuds,
129 down to 19 where the charge case
doubles as a power bank.
Absolutely awesome savings.
I do use affiliate links, which means I benefit monetarily
if you're kind enough
to use any of the links that I supply.
So this huge global shopping sales event right now
that kicks off is not Prime Day.
I'm gonna explain the differences
between this and Prime Day,
what you can expect for Prime Day 2020
if it's even gonna happen,
and then also some insider tips
to really make sure you save big
in general on Amazon and right now.
If you haven't yet seen some of the news coverage
from folks like CNBC and CNN and Forbes
all talking about Amazon's big style sale,
you'll notice that a lot of people
who aren't Amazon insiders
don't really know what to tell you, and that's fine.
I'm here to make sure you know.
So the first thing is you're going to see a fashion sale
but I'm also gonna tie this
into all sorts of other things if you don't like fashion
or if you are like me and you have no sense of fashion.
Let's start with the basics of the sale.
This is a sale that runs June 22nd for seven days,
and what can you expect?
Massive brands reductions tied to fashion
which also includes accessories
which if you actually look at it
will include things like luggage
and there is a sales and deals page
that caters to all of this.
But just to give you the big headlines,
Kate Spade, 40% off.
J.Crew, 40% off.
And just like that, many brands in this fashion sale
will cater to all sorts of groups of people
whether you're shopping low end, high end
for an anniversary gift, there's gonna be handbags, jewelry,
watch reductions, it is an unbelievable sale
and if you can get past the fact
that fashion just doesn't simply mean runway
and summer dresses
and things that you may not be using right now,
this is a versatile sale
where if you do you need to replace things
like household clothing and decor items,
there's also going to be reductions on that.
I'm also gonna discuss electronics in a moment.
So that's the June 22nd seven-day sale,
and Amazon is using many of its own brands,
which you may or may not have heard of,
to really push this considerably
so the traction tied to this is going to be huge.
And while Amazon is pushing a sale
that has millions more people on their website,
you can bet there's going to be reductions
that I'm gonna be profiling all week,
not just tied to fashion.
So let me separate the frugal fact from fiction
on all of these other shopping categories
which are gonna call up right now on my computer,
because this is very important for you to see.
We're going to discuss a few categories
and I'm also going to show you
what you wanna avoid at all costs.
So first things first,
a lot of people just simply go to Amazon
and they go to the Today's Deals tab.
And I want to show you one very important thing,
when you are going through Amazon or mattsdairydeals.com,
I've made sure that this missed box is not checked.
You do not need to be wasting your time
looking at sales and deals that you've missed.
But Amazon, for whatever reason, prechecks this box.
So you wanna get rid of that and that will actually give you
a much better shopping result
where you're not looking at items you can't even buy.
It's a very strange thing.
Beyond that, there's also a Deal of the Day.
A lot of people don't know what deals of the day are,
they're gonna be featured in this category.
You can see it's empty right now
but that's all about to change.
And Deals of the Day are deals that exist for the full day
until they sell out,
that is different from what a Lightning Deal is.
A Lightning Deal is a time deal
that doesn't run for the full day.
They've got different intervals
that run over the course of a day,
and this gets very confusing.
So while you are shopping this shopping event,
and then I'm gonna discuss Prime Day and what to expect
and will Prime Day return and when,
you're gonna notice that some deals
have two minutes left on them and they're only 6% claimed.
And then there are other deals on here
that have a longer duration, but a higher claim rate
and so on and so forth.
So it's a good category.
If you are a Prime member,
there is a Prime Early Access advantage
that many of you will have which is great,
particularly on tech.
I know this is a huge fashion thing,
but you're gonna see the Prime members
get 30 minute early access to Lightning Deals.
If you're not a Prime member, there's a free 30-day trial.
You can find it on my website or even on Amazon,
use that free 30-day trial to your advantage,
including over the course of the next seven days.
On mattsdailydeals.com,
I also have a list of the Prime Early Access deals
streamlined for you and sorted,
there's a lot of different sort mechanisms that you can see
that include just different discount categories.
You can even search later down the line by size.
So if you are searching fashion,
if you want two 2XL or 3XL or small or medium,
you can actually navigate those parameters.
So that is worth noting.
There are four additional categories and subpages of Amazon
that many people don't know about.
I recently uploaded a video
on insider clearance savings on Amazon,
and these are the things that people have never heard of.
But I'm gonna show you how these operate
pertaining to a major sales and shopping event.
So first things first, category one,
there is something on Amazon called Outlet,
and this is thousands of discounted and overstock items.
It's kind of like the equivalent
of shopping the discount bins
at Costco or Sam's Club or BJ's,
and you're going to find all sorts
of clearance deals and great categories.
One category I'm going to advise
you don't waste a whole lot of time on
is the under $10 category.
A lot of people deals in the under $10 category
are not always under $10,
you're gonna see when we call this up.
Yeah, they've got some okay deals in here
but this is $15 and 99 cents,
that's clearly not a $10 discount,
and you're going to find that
for some of the other products,
there are some inadvertent miscategorizations that occurs.
So that is the subpage number one.
The second category or subpage,
which is really important when you are shopping a sale event
or in general is the Coupon section.
The Coupon section will always default
to most popular coupons.
And just because it's popular for someone else
doesn't mean it's actually what you want.
I shop a lot of electronics, I'm an electronics reviewer,
before you ever buy a product on Amazon,
please check the respective category.
If you look in the electronics section right now,
you're going to see that there's 20, 10%
or like you could save an additional $10
on some of these headphones.
These are significant reductions
considering these headphones that I'm showing you
are only $59 to begin with.
So please keep that very well rated.
Please keep that in mind as an important subcategory page.
The third subcategory back page of Amazon
or depending on where you're looking,
this might be front and center for you,
is the Warehouse deals.
These are quality products that have been used,
they're renewed, they've gone through an inspection process
and a lot of cases, they have a 90-day return
attached to them with Amazon's Renewed Guarantee.
What a lot of you may not know
is although we think Amazon's got a great return policy,
they don't really in the grand scheme of things,
they're fine, but it's not like IKEA,
where you got 365 days to bring things back.
Amazon's return policy is generally 30 days.
If an item is defective, you can return it,
Amazon handles the return shipping
and their customer service is awesome.
But what you might not know
is that if you don't like an item,
you generally have to pay to send it back
unless it's signified with the free prime shipping
and free prime returns.
That's great for fashion because all of the fashion deals
that you'll see is part of the sale,
if they don't fit, you can send them back and forth
until you find the right size,
but that policy does not apply
to a lot of these other categories,
which is why the Amazon Renewed is so important,
you get 90 days instead of 30.
When you are shopping the Amazon Warehouse deals,
keep an eye out for the Amazon Renewed section
that is generally populated not just with coupons,
you'll know it's the Amazon Renewed section from the logo,
but you will be able
to score that additional 90-day warranty.
The Amazon Renewed section
also has great deals on smartphones that are unlocked
and ready to work with any carrier.
And the fourth category or fourth page
or fourth subgroup on Amazon
where you definitely wanna keep an eye out for deals,
not just during this sales event but in general,
is the Woot page.
If you guys don't remember,
Woot was an independent daily deal website a long time ago
where there'd be different deals of the day
and the clock attached to it.
Amazon purchased Woot
and there is now all sorts of great deals
on both new and refurbished products
that are, for example, a Ring Video Doorbell Pro
at 52% off certified refurbished,
and then products that are new as well
that have some great discounts tied to them,
the JBL Charge 4 waterproof speaker, for example,
is new and you're saving 44% off.
When Amazon features JBL reductions,
it's generally the Charge 3, and it's $50 off,
not the full 80.
So this is actually a very unique deal
that you're going to see
in addition to other deals that run frequently.
Now I'm going to show you what to avoid
and a tab you should always be opening
when you buy any product on Amazon
and then we'll talk about Prime Day
and how this all falls into place.
So when you are purchasing a product from Amazon,
it's really important
to know the creation date of the product.
A lot of us dismiss deals
because we think they're really old.
And sometimes you buy great bargains,
but they're really like six, seven, eight years old,
and on the verge of being discontinued.
So let's look at a television example.
If you guys look at this TV right now,
you might look at this and think this isn't that great,
it's a 32-inch TV for 139.
It's 720, it's not 4k, it's not Ultra HD,
and when I looked at this for the first time,
based on all of the reviews,
I thought, well, this is a really old TV,
I don't really need to spend a lot of time on it.
But if you look and you have this frequent habit
of clicking the see more product details
where you can see right now,
you're going to call up a section
which includes the list date of the product.
So right here we go, let's click this.
And you'll see that this was first made available
on May 10th of this year, my birthday.
So this is a brand new television,
and when you are comparing this to other 32-inch TVs
like this one from Insignia,
which you might be more inclined to buy,
that's 24% off, virtually the same price.
So before you buy the Insignia
and you scroll down and you get the product details,
you're going to actually see that this TV
is two years old right now.
So the technology in the LEDs
and how this television was fabricated
before you were able to purchase it
is now a much older technology.
So it's not as simple as comparing apples to apples.
The apples might have a very different expiration date
even though it looks beautiful, all right?
Throwing that in as a really important thing for you to do.
And then the second thing I wanna remind you guys of
is when you see deals,
whether it's for this
massive global Amazon fashion shopping sale
or the future of Prime Day,
when you look at a deal price
that's part of a bundle on Amazon
or you're getting a free Echo Dot
or a free product tied to what you're trying to buy,
the prices are inflated,
and in my opinion they're incorrect.
I don't think anyone is trying to deceive you
but this is not correct pricing.
So if you were to just buy the Amazon eero mesh
which is an amazing WiFi system, you're saving $50.
It's 249 down to 199, you're getting $50 off.
If you were regularly going to buy
the Amazon euro mesh, it's 249.
But follow me through on this
because this is really important for you guys to see.
When you take the free Echo Dot which is being offered,
Amazon averages in a price of $50 for the Echo Dot.
So instead of you saving $50 on the eero mesh,
they're telling you you're saving $50 on the eero mesh,
which is true, and then $50 on the Echo Dot,
which is not true,
and giving you a whole savings of $100 and 33%.
And you would look at this
and feel really good about yourself
and say, oh my goodness, I just saved $100.
You didn't.
The problem with these bundle prices
is it doesn't take into account the independent reductions
on the product you're getting free.
You were to go buy an Echo Dot right now,
an Echo Dot is $29, not 50.
But when they show you this bundle,
they're taking into account the list price
of the free Echo Dot.
If I lost you on that I'm gonna show you one more example.
Let's take the Ring Alarm camera kit as an example.
299 list price, bundle price 239
because they are giving you the camera, fine,
that's correct, but what happens
when you add the free Echo Show 5,
your savings go from 60 to 149.
And that's because they're averaging in a price
of $89 and 99 cents for the Echo Show 5.
But at the time I am recording and uploading this,
the Echo Show 5 is actually $59.
So guys, these bundle prices
never take into account the reduction
of the respective product you're getting for free,
it's important for you to know
because you might think you're getting a much better deal
than you actually are and you might jump on something
where you think you're saving 80 bucks,
but you're really saving 39, it's still great to save money,
but it's not on the same scale where these lower prices
and these slashes resonate in a different way with us.
So that's what creates a lot of impulse buying.
So finally, I just wanna let you guys know about Prime Day,
as you know Prime Day happens every year
since it's been conceived in July,
and I'm generally the host of Prime Day for Amazon
and it's great and it's exciting,
but there is no Prime Day July of this year.
There's been a lot of rumors
about Prime Day being canceled entirely
and other rumors about it being postponed to September.
There's no specific date given right now
but I I think it's fair to assume
there will be some semblance of Prime Day this year,
it will be during the holiday quarter,
which is actually better for all of us
if you actually think about everything
that's happened in the world that's been,
it's been a rough few months, the holiday quarter
when we are shopping for Christmas and Hanukkah
or end-of-the-year items that we really need
that are essentials in the holidays, the Kwanzaa,
it's important to know that these are all products,
given at a discount at a time
where you need them a little bit more,
July sale is exciting, but it's not tied to any holiday
other than Amazon's own self celebration.
So maybe the timing
will actually be more beneficial for you this year
and I can assure you,
as soon as Prime Day's dates are all confirmed
and how it's going to work is all confirmed,
I'll be the first hopefully in the country to know about it
other than actual employees at Amazon.
So if you subscribe and you turn your notifications on,
you will get that alert in your inbox
and I'll be offering the preview of deals
and everything you need well before that happens.
Guys, thank you so much for being here.
Happy savings, this event will last for seven days.
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