- 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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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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