Amazon Prime Day: Strategies to get the best deals and save big money
Kim Komando Today
WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc
4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Amazon Prime Day is in its sixth year, but the 2020 version won't look like years past. The-two day affair kicks off at midnight EST on Tuesday, Oct. 13, and I want to make sure you're prepared to get the most bang for your buck. I brought in shopping expert Kristin McGrath, Editor of BlackFriday.com, to give us the details on what we can expect, offers to hold out for, and the sales to steer clear of. Trust me, you don't want to miss this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | There are all kinds of holidays. January 17th is ditch your New Year's Resolution Day, |
| 0:11.5 | okay? March 3rd, a day of unplugging. I don't think I could do that. June 2nd, Donut Day. |
| 0:17.5 | Hmm, that sounds good. Or how about July 13th, French Friday? |
| 0:22.1 | December 8th. |
| 0:23.4 | I am really looking forward to December 8th because that's pretend to be a time traveler |
| 0:28.8 | day. |
| 0:29.6 | Please, please send me into 2021 right now. |
| 0:32.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:33.7 | Then usually in July, there's Amazon Prime Day. |
| 0:36.5 | That's the day when all online shoppers rejoice at all the sales and they click and add to cart until they drop. |
| 0:43.1 | Last year, the big sellers were the Amazon Fire TV stick, the Instapot. Boy, that thing's been so handy during the pandemic, right? |
| 0:51.4 | Headphones, yes, Sony over the ear types, the fire tablet, the echo dot. |
| 0:56.2 | And for some reason, the life straw water filter. Okay, I didn't know what that was. |
| 1:01.4 | I actually had to look it up. With the life straw, you can drink directly from a water source, |
| 1:06.2 | such like a stream, a mud puddle, or even just a lake. So Amazon Prime Day, it's in its sixth year, but |
| 1:12.6 | 2020 is, of course, a totally different animal because of the pandemic. It's going to be held |
| 1:17.5 | in just a few days. It's a two-day affair. It kicks off at 3 a.m. Eastern time, October 13th, |
| 1:24.3 | and then it ends 48 hours later. Now, this year, it seems like Black Friday, |
| 1:29.9 | of course, is not going to be the traditional Black Friday. So with Amazon moving the Prime |
| 1:35.6 | Day up from Black Friday, the idea is that we're all going to be doing our Christmas shopping |
| 1:41.0 | a heck of a lot earlier than we normally have in years past. |
| 1:45.1 | And it can be really hard to navigate Amazon Prime Day deals. |
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