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All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS

27 points acronpolis 4 hours ago 17 comments

xvxvx 4 hours ago | parent

For me, Prime Day is not a time for good deals, but a time for my packages to be delayed. I hope you won’t need anything in a hurry for a week after it.

ceejayoz 1 hour ago | parent

It can be fun to watch prices a little before and during Prime Day. I've seen quite a few things on my wishlist go up in price the week before, then a "Prime Day Deal" that's higher than the original price was.

dofm 1 hour ago | parent

Yes. In the UK they go up a month before, because we have consumer protection laws that required retailers of e.g. white goods to have maintained the higher price for any announced discount for at least a month. So you knew that sellers thought there would be (at that point unannounced) Deal Days, because the prices of some things went up 20% back at the beginning of September.

legulere 47 minutes ago | parent

There's https://camelcamelcamel.com to check how prices developed.

There's still the possibility of shenanigans with different models that can be overpriced for long so they look like a good deal when they get a normal price

LeonenTheDK 46 minutes ago | parent

I had ordered a new wireless charger about two weeks ago (without Prime). a day or two before it was meant to be shipped (about a week before Prime day), my order was cancelled "due to lack of stock". I go to the original product page and what do you know, it's in stock but $3 more expensive. Looking again today, it's on the Prime sale for the old price.

Scummy behaviour at best, and illegal at worst.

georgemcbay 1 hour ago | parent

Amazon certainly puts up some impressive numbers.

For example, Amazon warehouse workers experience serious injury rates that are roughly 2 times the industry average!

~6.5-6.7 per 100 workers at Amazon compared to ~3.2-3.8 per 100 workers for the overall industry.

Aarostotle 35 minutes ago | parent

Which industry and what is counted as an injury here?

georgemcbay 28 minutes ago | parent

The warehousing industry, and it is counting all "serious" injuries (which basically means an injury that puts you out of work for any amount of time or requires you to be reassigned to a different job).

abroszka33 16 minutes ago | parent

Don't worry they have cry booths now. Everything is fine!

ck2 1 hour ago | parent

cheapest prices are always two weeks before any public sale

that includes "Black Friday"

then there are hilarious prices like twice what it was two years ago

       amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-External-external-storage/dp/B09VCXWPQG

what exactly did amazon do with those billions in tariff refunds?

tmpz22 51 minutes ago | parent

> what exactly did amazon do with those billions in tariff refunds?

Plan expensive weddings in Venice. And we're all doing our part paying as consumers and tax payers.

mvanbaak 5 minutes ago | parent

storage and memory has simply gone up over 100% in the last year. nothing Amazon specific here

xnx 52 minutes ago | parent

Prime Day is a great day to encourage people to use tools like CamelCamelCamel or Keepa to see if the "deals" are actually deals.

solarkraft 23 minutes ago | parent

Maybe the reason is that I live in the EU, but my Amazon app has the price history right in it. It’s both useful and entertaining.

Rebelgecko 1 minute ago | parent

Iirc the built in history doesn't take into account games like having a perennial 40% off coupon that gets disabled right when a "sale" starts

figers 9 minutes ago | parent

I used to then switched to the amazon built in price tracker, then set alerts or auto buy below the lowest price it's been in the last year when I Really want something but don't need it immediately...

A sweater I liked that dropped to $19 just triggered the auto buy during this prime day sale...

NooneAtAll3 24 minutes ago | parent

welcome to Mersenne prime awareness day

consider providing your pc time for https://www.mersenne.org/ distributed compute project