Amazon Prime Day Continues With New Deals
Prime members in the U.S. have already saved hundreds of millions of dollars during Prime Day
Worldwide sellers – predominantly small and medium-sized businesses – saw the biggest 24-hour sales day in Amazon history
Since Prime Day kicked off, customers worldwide have purchased millions of Alexa-enabled devices, including Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote and Echo Dot
Deep discounts have already saved Amazon.com's Prime members millions of dollars in the U.S. during day one of the two days of deals this Prime Day.
Amazon announced that consumers have purchased so far millions of Alexa-enabled devices, including Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote and Echo Dot. Other top-selling deals include Instant Pot DUO Plus 60 6 Qt, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, and Crest 3D White Professional Effects Whitening Strips. With 24 hours left to shop during Prime Day, some deals are still to come with new deals being revealed as often as every five minutes. Members in the U.S. will find thousands of new deals today, across electronics, fashion, grocery, toys, furniture, everyday essentials, school supplies, and more. Some highlights include:
Amazon Devices:
- $27.99 off Echo Dot, just $22
- $40 off the all-new Echo Show 5, just $49.99
- $25 off Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, just $14.99
- Save up to $140 on Fire TV Edition Smart TVs
- $20 off the all-new Fire 7 tablet, just $29.99, or get two for $49.98—a $50 savings
- $40 off all-new Fire 7 Kids Edition tablet, just $59.99, or get two for $99.98—a $100 savings
- $60 off Ring Video Doorbell 2, just $139
- Save up to $200 on eero WiFi systems
- Save up to $50 on Kindle Paperwhite, plus get a $5 eBook credit and three months free Kindle Unlimited
Electronics:
- Save up to 25% on select Canon Mirrorless and DSLR cameras
- Save up to 30% of select Sony and Samsung TVs
Smart Home:
- Save up to 50% off select Sony LED Smart TVs
- Save up to 30% on Tile
- Save up to 30% on iRobot Robotic Vacuums
Video Games:
- Save up to 50% on Astro A40 TR headset
Amazon.com has also an interesting promotion for U.S. shoppers on Prime Day: Earn $10 of credit if you let Amazon track the websites you visit.
The deal is for new installations of the Amazon Assistant, a comparison-shopping tool that customers can add to their web browsers. It fetches Amazon’s price for products that users see on Walmart.com, Target.com and elsewhere.
In order to work, the assistant needs access to users’ web activity, including the links and some page content they view. The catch, as Amazon explains in the fine print, is the company can use this data to improve its general marketing, products and services, unrelated to the shopping assistant.
Amazon already has more than 7 million customers using its assistant via Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, according to data published by those web browsers. Other companies offer similar shopping tools.
Amazon’s combination of tools still pales in comparison to data collection by Alphabet Inc’s Google, which has tracking pixels on most web pages.