I looked around and didn't see anything I needed, but I also noticed that some of the brick-and-mortar stores around me were also running sales promoted to coincide with Prime Day, so I scored a bundt cake at a local bakery for half off.
I checked yesterday. Some model on sale for 109.99 for prime day.
Avoid prime day. The real discounts happen on other days.
Most items on Amazon just aren't worth it anymore. The cut Amazon takes goes too far into margins that only the products with the highest margins (lowest production costs) remain on the platform. I assume the desk fan I'm getting is going to be cheaply built, but I don't need it to be amazing for a simple job.
Some big brands are worth buying from on there, but they must either have a deal with Amazon or only discount a small amount. And then typically the discount they do give will be echoed elsewhere at some point.
Prime Day is not a good time for a bargain. Black Friday is still okay, but again only really for big brands.
>Prime Day is not a good time for a bargain. Black Friday is still okay, but again only really for big brands.
Although a lot of the time the discounts aren't great, especially on items described as 'like new' I've bought a few things from there at not far off half price because of a condition described as 'acceptable' which turned out to be something really minor; a small barely noticeable scratch [on a Makita power tool] or a missing rechargeable battery [on a Logitech keyboard, which took standard AA batteries anyway], another small, barely noticeable scratch [on a SanDisk MP3 player]
I think a lot of the deals are pretty bogus. I noticed four things on Prime Day deals that I'd previously bought. When I checked my purchase history, it turned out I'd paid less for 3 out of the 4 than the Prime Day deal price.
A lot of people don't realise [I certainly didn't] that Amazon [or presumably Amazon's algorithms] vary the prices of items they sell all the time and often by significant amounts. I use CamelCamelCamel [0] to track the prices of things I'm interested in and viewing their price tracker graphs can be a real eye-opener.