Prime Day...wth?

[Just Jeepin']

I finally signed up for Prime just to be able to watch Invincible, and I'll need to decide soon whether I should continue to set aside my distaste for Amazon's business practices for mindless entertainment.

Setting that aside, I just noticed my local Gannett outlet is promoting a video series on how to take advantage of Prime Day, so I have to ask:

what the hell?

Is it really that big a deal that it's somehow useful to partake in training?

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/money/reviewed/2021/06/03/rsvp-how-hack-prime-day-event/7497706002/

[davesaddiction]

@just-jeepin

[WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4]

Invincible was awesome. I keep Prime because I order too much shit I don't need.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@just-jeepin come buy more chinese shit

[ibRAD]

@just-jeepin I always just assume anything with the word 'hack' in the title has one for an author too.

[CobraJoe]

@just-jeepin Prime day is like Black Friday at walmart from home. Limited deals of stuff you probably don't need, and it's a huge time sink either way.

I'm happier taking my time and spending a little extra.

[MisterButtercup]

@just-jeepin Essentially what @davesaddiction posted, it's like to Amazon's own Black Friday sale, or the Alibaba Singles day.

"This stuff is really cheap so you should buy it!!" (regardless of how much you don't need it...)

Working 5 Black Fridays at Best Buy, I'm good. Best Buy used it as a way to clear out older stock in the name of the sale, so the products were older and it was the best way to clear out old stock. Guessing prime day is the same type of thing. Might be something you need, so go for it, but otherwise, meh.

[ZHP Sparky - the 5th]

@just-jeepin Prime Day buying something you didn't need in the first place - 50% off!

Prime day (or any other day, for that matter) NOT buying the thing you don't need - 100% off!

[pos_camaro]

@just-jeepin Prime Day is how I got my bench vise. They had Yost products marked down, and free shipping on a damn vise? I'll take that. But that's the key, I needed and was looking for a vise.

[TheTurbochargedSquirrel]

@misterbuttercup I worked 4 Black Fridays for Target. We used to bring in cheap Westinghouse branded TVs by the pallet for Black Friday through Christmas. The return rate on those TVs were insane (according to one of my coworkers who worked Guest Services it was something like 45-55% return rate) but apparently there were enough of them not coming back for it to be worth it for Target to keep selling them every year.

The worst was the year they brought in Kodak branded 32" 720p TVs and were selling them for $300 each (this was 2015 or 2016). Target's POS system requires that you scan the serial number for all TVs and Video Game Consoles sold. These things were selling like hot cakes for some reason beyond my explanation and every time you sold one you had to have a manager come over and override the system so that we could sell the damn things. 2 hours in our manager was so sick of this mess that she put a sticky note on every register with her ID# and pin so that we could just do the overrides ourselves.

[MisterButtercup]

@theturbochargedsquirrel Yikes,that sounds like a mess! We also had the Westinghouses by the pallet, but those didn't get returned quite as much I don't think. I worked customer service on weekends, so we definitely had out fair share to deal with. Interesting about the serial numbers, we only needed them for some to return - and had to check, sometimes the serial on the box didn't match the Broken TV inside it.. wonder why...

[flatisflat]

@just-jeepin said in Prime Day...wth?:

Is it really that big a deal that it's somehow useful to partake in training?

It's at least major enough to ride the bandwagon and get them article clicks.

[mocamino]

@theturbochargedsquirrel We bought one of those cheap Westinghouse TVs during the Super Bowl TV push a few years back. It was inexpensive and replaced an ancient rear projection TV that was good in its day but those days were long past. We've had really good luck with the Westinghouse. Three or four years old and still going strong. Guess we got lucky.

[Cash Rewards]

@zhp-sparky-the-5th but then what do I end up with? Inner peace? Fuck that noise

[zipfuel]

@misterbuttercup I did one boxing day at Canadian Bestbuy and all the stuff with big discounts wasn't our usual merch but brought in specially to be deliberately marked down. Even some that duplicated products we had up in the racks but with a different SKU which really f'ed up a poor couple who waited ages for a lift to bring down a package of speakers I was trying to sell them only to find they weren't on sale. The stuff that we didn't sell boxing day then lingered forever cos the MSRP was clearly artificially high, at $300 those silver metal surround speakers from a brand I'd never heard of were probably an alright deal but at $800 nobody in their right was going to bite.

[MisterButtercup]

@zipfuel Ha! I forgot about that stuff. And yikes, that poor couple...

[frinesi2]

@zipfuel Yeah that's the craziest thing about it all, really ...