- When is Amazon Prime Day 2021,
and what can you expect this Amazon Prime Day?
This is what you need to know.
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I'm the YouTube Deal Guy Matt Granite.
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I'm here to separate the myth,
the frugal fact from fiction,
and also present to you
and reveal the exact deals you can expect
when Prime Day begins.
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Shopping secret number one,
when is Amazon Prime Day 2021?
It is Monday, June 21st, and Tuesday, June 22nd.
As we get to Amazon Prime Day 2021,
this year, for the first time ever, it's in June.
Preceding years, it had been featured in July,
and last year, based on everything going on in the world,
it was shifted to October.
It is a global event,
although in some countries,
Prime Day has been canceled this year, including Canada.
But if you are watching in the US right now,
Prime Day is coming.
Shopping secret number two,
Prime Day in the past
has been kind of an opportunity for people
to shop from Amazon,
whether or not they were actually Prime members.
This year, I've been told,
Amazon is going full force as a crackdown,
and if you are not an Amazon Prime member,
there's a very good chance
you will not see or be able to access many deals.
The good news is you do not have to pay
for a Prime membership.
The cost of a full Prime membership
breaks down to around $12.99 per month,
plus any applicable tax.
If you're a student, you get a discount.
But if you have an EBT card
or if you're on government assistance,
you can get prime for essentially half price.
But for the sake of this video,
that's neither here nor there.
If you are not a Prime member
and don't wanna remain a paying member,
you can use a free 30-day trial.
If you expand the video description box,
you're gonna find a link to a free 30-day trial,
and I would highly recommend
that you just activate that free 30-day trial
before Prime Day,
and then you can reap the benefits,
access the deals, score the savings,
and cancel if you so choose
after Prime Day 2021.
Shopping secret number three,
before I unveil some huge screen Prime Day television deals,
it's tied to the fact if you're not that hot on Amazon,
you can actually score Prime Day deals
at many of your other favorite retailers.
Let's take Walmart as an example.
Walmart essentially celebrates Prime Day
by announcing a counter-sale
which usually follows the exact same dates as Prime Day
the same week, or sometimes a week before or after.
Other stores that run their own sales events,
Best Buy and Target, usually in conjunction
with the discounts you see for Prime Day.
So if you absolutely want to avoid Amazon on Prime Day,
you can enjoy discounts elsewhere.
Although I will tell you, just as a consumer analyst
and a deal advocate and someone
that really just wants to watch out for your wallet,
Prime Day deals are generally considered
some of the best deals of the year,
and many of them are better than Black Friday
or Cyber Monday if you pick the correct category.
Which brings me to shopping secret number four
and the truth about televisions on Prime Day.
So if you guys are not aware,
the single best time of the year to buy a television
is the week leading up to Black Friday.
And in most cases, many of the TVs
you see advertised on Black Friday itself
never really sold for the list price
because they were built specifically for the occasion.
The week leading into Black Friday
is a completely different story.
Cyber Monday isn't great for televisions.
Around the big game in February,
we do see some higher-end television discounts,
which are always welcome,
and then Prime Day is kind of hit-or-miss on televisions.
But for this, Amazon Prime Day 2021,
Amazon is taking some of the highest-end televisions
ever created, not even a year old,
heavily discounting them,
and then on top of that, they have their own brand.
So let's take this Samsung 65" Q900TS television
as an example.
If you guys are wondering,
how am I seeing this television
advertised at this price before Prime Day?
Typically what I see for the days and weeks
leading in to Prime Day,
many of the major merchants
that have partnered with Amazon for specific deals
will test their deals out early,
and I believe this Q900TS QLED 8K TV
is one of those deal tests.
So they put up a limited amount of stock,
and then they drop it to what is a Prime Day price
or almost a Prime Day price.
On Prime Day or in the days leading up,
I expect this TV to be around $200 cheaper
with the addition of a coupon.
But 51% off a newly released mid-2020 television
at this price is worth a look.
I actually placed an order for this television
so I could test it out.
It has an infinity edge display,
it's stainless steel.
I realize that an 8K TV is complete overkill.
It does upscale a lot of your content,
and it supposedly has one of the best 3D sound systems
ever put into a television.
Ahead of Prime Day, I decided I would start researching
many of the big deals.
A significantly less expensive television
is this all-new Toshiba 50",
released just in time for Prime Day.
You can see it barely has any ratings right now.
And this 50" Toshiba 4K Fire TV
will be something that's heavily promoted
and discounted on Prime Day,
where you'll see around 100 to $150 off
many of the Fire TVs, including this model.
Before I reveal what you should not,
under any circumstances, buy right now
made by Amazon, shopping secret number five
is tied to robo-vacs,
and for Prime Day this year,
this will be the year of the robo-vac,
or Prime Day Robo-Vac Day,
because merchants are more desperate than ever
to move stock.
If you watch price trends day in and day out as I do,
these robo-vacs are always on sale.
So what can we expect?
We'll see offerings substantially better
than what you see on your screen right now
tied to brands like Roborock.
Roborock does run a lot of Prime Day deals.
The entry-level brands like ILIFE, Eufy, Anker
will all have deals.
And then for the higher-end robotic self-emptying vacs
like this iRobot Roomba i7+,
you can expect this price that you see on your screen
to be a lot closer to $499
when Prime Day strikes.
That'll also include discounts on the ILIFE.
Amazon Prime Day 2021 shopping secret number six,
I would not, under any circumstances,
buy any product made by Amazon
in the days leading up to Prime Day
unless it is a full 50% off.
So if you do see enticing limited time offers,
do not buy them.
And the key to understanding Prime Day
is knowing just how many brands Amazon operates
or has significant partnerships with.
So I'm gonna show you a few examples
of what I would not buy.
If you see anything on Amazon
that is tagged as an Amazon exclusive,
I realize Amazon does not make these headphones, Sony does,
but a pair of headphones like this
will sell for somewhere between 50 and $99 on Prime Day.
Do not buy it for 178.
And again, that Amazon exclusive
is a signifier to you
that it presents no savings in advance of Prime Day.
For the other brands that Amazon makes
that you may be more aware of,
there are the Echo Dots, the Echo Shows,
the regular Echos, the Echo Frames,
anything that has the word echo in it.
But then there are all of the other brands
that some people still do not know
are owned by Amazon,
and these are brands that Amazon recently bought.
And before I get to those brands,
by the way, of course, the Fire TV stick's
by no means a good purchase leading up to Prime Day.
So there's eero, which is a mesh, web-based,
WiFi boosting company,
and there will be many exclusive sales
tied to Prime Day.
I would not buy an eero products
or eero extenders before Prime Day.
Ring as well, Ring Security, Ring video doorbell,
stay as far away from those as you can before Prime Day.
Blink, if you are not aware,
is now also an Amazon company.
So if you are looking into home security,
home automation, anything remotely tied
to keeping your family safe,
if you can afford a few weeks grace
before you actually secure their safety, I would.
It sounds like just awful advice that I'm giving out here.
For the well-being of your family,
but you should save an additional $20.
But again, it's the difference between paying full price
and a 50% or 40% reduction in some cases.
You can enjoy many Whole Foods products
as well as Prime Day deals
exclusively offered at Whole Foods.
Generally the only time of year
where I ever set foot in a Whole Foods,
just based on my financial level of comfort,
is Prime Day.
And before I get to shopping secret number seven,
if you would like me to text you
all of the biggest deals
in advance of Amazon Prime Day
and throughout the occasion itself,
I will not spam you,
you are welcome to join my Insider Deal Guy Texting Club.
Just drop me a line, send me a text to sign up.
My phone number, 440-298-2181,
440-298-2181, and I promise to make this
your best Prime Day yet.
Shopping secret number seven,
if you do see something advertised
as an early access Prime Day deal,
it is safe to buy before Prime Day.
And we generally see the early access Prime deals
or the deals designated as Prime Day, early deals,
in the 72 hours that precede Prime Day
and things like 50% off an Echo Auto,
this actually might even drop to 19.99
closer to the occasion,
all deals that you should consider
if you don't wanna risk sellouts or delayed shipping.
And when it comes to lightning deals
and specific Prime shopping events,
you can definitely shop through
and browse all of those carousels,
but one quick trick.
If you preload all of the items that you are considering
in your shopping cart,
not necessarily a save-for-later purchase,
but just add the items that you are considering
to your shopping cart,
in the event they drop in price, you will see it.
If you're on the app, you might even get a pop-up,
and then you can complete your purchase
without having to worry about getting stock
that so many people are all trying to buy into
at the same time.
Shopping secret number eight,
consider the necessities
rather than just the wants for Prime Day,
and you will feel very rewarded.
Things like diapers, if you are a parent shopping for them.
Things like AncestryDNA kits,
which make interesting gifts,
will all drop by 50% on Prime Day
from the big brands like AncestryDNA, 23andMe.
And some of the anti-aging beauty products,
I feel like I should put this all over my face
and then double the dose,
considering how this month has been going.
I just keep aging, my wife looks younger,
people think she's my daughter in photos.
The anti-aging serum three-pack that you see right here,
16.95 as a lightning deal,
one of many offerings you will see for Prime Day,
just in those cases, it'll be around 10 to 20% better.
For the next two Amazon Prime Day
shopping secrets I'm gonna share,
these are mistakes you wanna avoid at all costs,
and then I'm gonna explore
a couple of Amazon Prime Day bonuses
to save you even more money.
Shopping secret number nine,
pay very specific attention
to the generations of the products being sold to you
on Amazon Prime Day.
Now Amazon knows a lot about your user history,
and they may actually cultivate
and send certain products onto your radar,
whether it's through ads on Amazon itself,
or through bundles.
Let's start with bundles for a moment.
When you see a bundle advertised on Amazon,
it doesn't generally present the value
that Amazon is demonstrating.
So what they do is they average in
all of the full cost price of the products,
and then they tell you how much you're saving,
although most of the deals tied to products in the bundle
are products that have never sold for full price.
Well, that's probably not life-changing advice.
The issue with the bundles,
it's very difficult to see
what generation you're being sold of the base product.
So right here, I'll see an Echo Show 5,
I get excited, I think I'm saving 47%
according to Amazon,
but the truth is this is a first generation product,
and you would have absolutely no idea
through a quick glance at the page right now,
specifically on Prime Day where you feel rush and pressured
and you're trying to buy it a mile a minute.
Right here, I'm able to see that this is, in fact,
a first generation product,
and Amazon has since come out
with a new generation Echo Show 5.
But on Prime Day, if you see it,
you might think that's a good deal.
It is not.
One other important note
is in the days leading up to Prime Day,
there will be exclusive deals
on refurbished products from Amazon.
I would not, under any circumstances,
consider these good deals.
Likely within $5 of the refurbished price,
you'll get a new generation product.
That's definitely something to keep in mind,
despite how significant the savings look
when they are advertised to you.
You can also apply this reminder
to TVs that are tied to Amazon partnerships,
specifically anything that has the Fire TV name in it.
Amazon just revamped mostly all of its Fire TV line.
Generally look for a date tied to the top
of the television title,
specifically a released 2021
is something you wanna see.
When you do see other Fire TVs offered at a discount,
if it doesn't say 2021 in the title,
and you go all the way down to the fine print,
it will reveal that it is, in fact,
a television that is more than a year old.
I would go for a discount on the newer Fire TVs if you can
when it comes to some of the larger brands
like Sony and Samsung.
I would graciously welcome a television from last year
if it was at a substantial discount.
Amazon Prime Day shopping secret number 10
comes with another warning
before I quickly show you a few more items
not to buy in the bonus round,
understand who you are shopping from on Prime Day.
I'll often have an incredible Prime Day,
and then I'll speak to one of my very few friends
who I will confide in
who will share that they had a terrible Prime Day.
Prime Day is what you make of it,
but it's also depending from where you buy your products.
A lot of people complain about missed deliveries,
items no showing up.
They can't return the item which showed up wrong.
Understand who you're shopping from on Amazon.
And if you read any of the product pages on Prime Day
or in general, you generally want to ensure
you are shopping a product that is fulfilled by Amazon,
and, even better, has free returns.
You can see on this product right here,
although this product is not sold by Amazon,
it is, in fact, shipping from an Amazon warehouse.
On other products, like this HP laptop,
you'll see it just says free delivery.
A lotta people see free delivery
and they assume they've locked in a Prime item.
You have not.
In this case, you are dealing with a third-party merchant,
and if something goes wrong
or you regret your Prime Day purchase,
it's a lot more difficult to return the item.
That's particularly important
to keep in mind on televisions.
And some of the TV partnerships will just blow your mind.
This TV is advertised as a Fire TV,
so you'd immediately assume
Amazon has something to do with the sale
or the shipping of the television.
In this case right now, it is ships from
and sold by Best Buy,
which I always find mind-boggling,
because Best Buy is essentially an Amazon competitor,
but they do have partnerships in place.
And just keep in mind
where your product comes from on Prime Day
before you complete your purchase.
And now for your bonus shopping secret,
in addition to all of the Kindle e-Books
and many of the deals tied to subscription services
if you are not yet aware,
the Prime Video subscription service
as well as the Amazon Music Unlimited subscriptions
will have substantial discounts offered
only to new members on Amazon Prime Day.
So if you are considering a subscription right now
on anything tied to Amazon, do not subscribe,
you will be pleasantly rewarded on Prime Day.
Sometimes you'll get six months free.
Sometimes you'll get 50% off,
it depends on the product,
but the savings will be worth it if you wait.
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Thank you for watching, happy Prime Day 2021.