We are already back in the Amazon Prime Day from October 8 to 9the party of offers that the popular online store offers to Amazon Prime subscribers. It is a period of offers in which you can find things even cheaper than on Black Friday, but where you are not free from the typical Price traps.
Because there are times when what Amazon tells you is an offer really is not, and there are products that are shown on sale when there is no price drop or when it is minimal. Therefore, if you are thinking of buying on Amazon today we will tell you how to get the most out of Prime Day with the tips and tools necessary to identify the best bargains.
Our Telegram for all offers
But before we start, I have to remind you that the WorldOfSoftware Selección team is going to be giving everything during Prime Day to find and tell you the best offers. And if you are a little lazy about entering their website and you are a Telegram user, you can enter the official channel of WorldOfSoftware Selección to see the best offers there.
You can access it by entering the website t.me/, which will open Telegram on your mobile or computer, taking you to the channel. In it, press the button Joinand once you do so you can consult this channel whenever you want where we will publish the best offers.
The WorldOfSoftware Selección channel works every day of the year, so you can stay to always see the offers that come out. But during Prime Day, we are also going to offer you special content such as compilations with thematic offerswhich can help you even more than individual offers. The idea is that you don’t need anything else so as not to miss out on the best offers.
Requirements for Amazon Prime Day
Amazon Prime Day is not like Black Friday, and the offers are not for all users. The requirement to take advantage of them is that you need an Amazon Prime subscription. Come on, you have to be a paying Amazon user, which is what will allow you to access product offers.
And if you don’t have a Prime subscription, go to the amazon.es/amazonprime website, which is where you can see the conditions and register. There are usually free trial periods for new users, so if you just want to take advantage of these offers you won’t even have to pay. Of course, then you have to remember to cancel the subscription so that they don’t start charging you.
In the end, what matters is that have Amazon Prime active during these two days to be able to access the offers, whether you are a paying user or have a trial period. And in addition to these offers, you can also benefit from the rest of the advantages of Amazon Prime, such as free shipping costs within 24 hours, or the Amazon Video series and movie streaming service.
Differences between offers, Flash offers and Prime
In periods like Prime Day you will find various types of offers different. You will have normal offers like those of any day of the year, but you will also have flash deals and Prime Dealswhich are exclusive to this sales period. The difference between these types of offers is between how long each of them lasts.
Flash offers only last a few hoursand they are usually released hour by hour, or during specific periods of time. With this, Amazon tries to ensure that all users are always aware of its website, visiting it often to see the new offers on it. Furthermore, these offers are usually for products with limited units, which fuels compulsive purchases for fear of losing the sale.
While, Prime Offers last an entire calendar dayas long as the stock does not run out first. These are usually the most important offers of Prime Day, the great hook with the best bargains to attract our attention. They tend to be very popular products with very significant discounts.
Be careful with price increases and decreases
All that glitters is not gold in these sales, and on Amazon you will find many tactics to mislead customers. A common one is products that increase in price just before sales daysso they can then indicate that the discount is much greater than it really is.
The discount indicated is usually not real Nor, because even if it has dropped in price, Amazon usually inflates the percentage of the reduction. As? Imagine that I have bought headphones that usually cost 500 euros at a price of 380 euros on Prime Day. It is a very good offer, but Amazon inflates the percentage indicating that the reduction comes from the 599 euros of the recommended price at which this product has not been available for months or years.
In addition to this, you should also know that prices vary greatly over timeand that a supposedly very good offer may be worse than another from the past, and the price may even be higher than that of other establishments. Therefore, always compare prices with those of other establishments to have a better context of what the discount is like.
How to find the best Amazon deals
There are several online tools to check prices of Amazon products, and thus be able to see what the real discount is that is being applied. These services will help you find the best deals, giving you context of the price history it has had over the past few months. These are the best:
Keep
Keepa is possibly the best online tool for tracking Amazon prices. It has a website where you can consult it, but the most convenient thing is that it also has a browser extensionwhich is available in Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Microsoft Edge.
If you have installed the extension, on the same Amazon website you will see that a graph appears on a product sheet with price history throughout the last few months. You can also check this directly on their website. This way you can put context to the offer taking into account other previous prices.
Keepa is a robust and complete tool which consists of several tabs to follow the product establishing both the price range and other characteristics, although it will require us to register. If you register you can also add notifications to notify you when a product has dropped below a certain price.
CamelCamelCamel
CamelCamelCamel’s website too Track the price history of Amazon products. It is another very popular and powerful alternative, where you just have to type the URL of the discounted product or search for search keywords on Amazon. This will take you to the files for each product.
Inside the tabs you will see How has the price changed over time?being able to visualize with a graph where you can see the variations. It also allows you to create alerts when the product drops below a price you have set, although you will have to register for that.
Google Shopping
Google Shopping does not give you a price history, but it does allow you Compare the price with other stores. To do it you just have to use the Google search engine, and click on the tab Products to access the module where it appears in online stores.
In this section you will be able to see that product in different online stores. This way, you can compare the prices in different establishments, and check if Amazon’s is the best offer or not.
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