Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Day now set for July sixteenth.
Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Well, we now know the date for one of Amazon's
Speaker 1: biggest shopping events of the year. Amazon Prime Day starts
Speaker 1: July sixteenth at twelve pm Pacific three pm Eastern. Last year,
Speaker 1: Prime Day ran for thirty hours. This year it will
Speaker 1: be thirty six hours. So let's do the math, and
Speaker 1: you've got a lot of shopping time. Now, Remember, to
Speaker 1: get these deals, you do have to be an Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime member. Their membership is currently thirteen dollars a month,
Speaker 1: or one hundred and nineteen dollars for the year. Remember
Speaker 1: they just raised prices on an Amazon Prime membership. Also
Speaker 1: new this year whole food stores getting in on the actions.
Speaker 1: You can get some extra discounts there.
Speaker 2: So what can we expect now?
Speaker 1: Personally, I think that Amazon Prime Day has some good deals,
Speaker 1: but there's also a lot of letdowns and sometimes people
Speaker 1: just kind of mindlessly shop for stuff they don't necessarily need.
Speaker 2: To me, Amazon Prime Day is one.
Speaker 1: Of the best days to buy stuff because if you
Speaker 1: have your eye on something, chances are it's on sale
Speaker 1: and it's at one of the best prices.
Speaker 2: Of the year, So what can we expect.
Speaker 1: Amazon is going to push their own stuff first and foremost.
Speaker 2: If you haven't been keeping track, Amazon has a lot
Speaker 2: of house brands these days.
Speaker 1: Those are the brands you see advertised right above your
Speaker 1: search results.
Speaker 2: The other day, I saw one for Presto.
Speaker 1: I clicked it, and it's all their new paper products
Speaker 1: like toilet paper and paper towels.
Speaker 2: This year, Prime Day will.
Speaker 1: Feature double the deals on Amazon devices and the biggest
Speaker 1: deals yet on Alexa enabled devices that includes Echo fireTV
Speaker 1: Fire tablets, in addition to all their new home security
Speaker 1: stuff so like ring devices. So if you have your
Speaker 1: eye on any sort of electronic device that comes from Amazon,
Speaker 1: put it in your cart now and hold.
Speaker 2: Off until Prime Day.
Speaker 1: Amazon's also doing something kind of interesting this year, giant smileboxes.
Speaker 1: Amazon likes to do kind of a show now when
Speaker 1: they do big events.
Speaker 2: These giant smile.
Speaker 1: Boxes will make their way across land and sea, according
Speaker 1: to Amazon, to major cities around the world, including Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: There will be giant boxes and Amazon will open them
Speaker 1: for an unforgettable event.
Speaker 2: Their words, not mine. Not sure what that means, but
Speaker 2: I guess we'll find out.
Speaker 1: Amazon isn't telling us the prices, but they have some
Speaker 1: deals that they are revealing already. A Delta faucet, which
Speaker 1: is an Alexa enabled kitchen faucet, will be on sale.
Speaker 1: A Coleman portable propane grill will be on sale. A
Speaker 1: Fingerling's light Up Unicorn Mackenzie, which is the first Fingerling
Speaker 1: with a special light up horn. I think those little
Speaker 1: toys that you put on your fingers for kids. An
Speaker 1: audible original production Hi Bob, which is American icon Bob Newhart.
Speaker 1: He sits down with special guests Sarah Silverman, Will Ferrell,
Speaker 1: Lisa Kudro, Jimmy Kimmel, Judd Apatow, and Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2: I guess that will be on sale. Those buy drinks.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen the ads for these
Speaker 2: things on billboards, but they're actually pretty good. They're like
Speaker 2: sugar free drinks.
Speaker 1: Asberry is a flavor paying homage to Justin Timberlake, and
Speaker 1: that will be on sale.
Speaker 2: What I'm interested in the Moto G six.
Speaker 1: This smartphone sells for two hundred and thirty five dollars
Speaker 1: right now. It is a fantastic value. It's unlocked. If
Speaker 1: you need a new smartphone. You're looking for something on
Speaker 1: a budget, definitely add the Moto G six sixty four
Speaker 1: gig to your cart right now. It's two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars. It will be on sale during Prime
Speaker 1: Day Whole Foods. You're gonna get an additional ten percent
Speaker 1: off sale items, which, by the way, they already give
Speaker 1: you ten percent off regularly, so I guess this really
Speaker 1: means it's an extra ten percent off, So really twenty
Speaker 1: percent off, which is kind of cool. At Whole Foods,
Speaker 1: And starting today there are some deals immediately available. Echo
Speaker 1: Show is one hundred dollars off. Amazon brands are are
Speaker 1: on sale as well. Twenty five percent off furniture and
Speaker 1: decor from Rivet and also Stone and Beam. Up to
Speaker 1: twenty percent off Amazon Basics items if you haven't checked
Speaker 1: out Amazon Basics. Those are fantastic for little things like
Speaker 1: charging cables and any kind of assorted things you need
Speaker 1: around the house. There's also fifty percent off popular movies
Speaker 1: and TV shows.
Speaker 2: Let's see Amazon Music Unlimited. This is a good deal.
Speaker 1: You can get four months of on demand premium music
Speaker 1: for ninety nine cents. So if you have Spotify, my
Speaker 1: advice put that on hold for four months. You just
Speaker 1: saved yourself thirty nine dollars because now you got four
Speaker 1: months of music for ninety nine cents. Yes, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to get used to a different app, but I
Speaker 1: think you can do that.
Speaker 2: For forty bucks.
Speaker 1: If you buy your first Kindle book, you'll get a
Speaker 1: ten dollars Prime Day credit. My suggestion buy my book
Speaker 1: one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone.
Speaker 1: You buy that for ten dollars, you'll get a ten
Speaker 1: dollars credit for Prime. Basically, my book would be free
Speaker 1: if it's the first time you're buying a kindle book,
Speaker 1: and don't forget you can read a kindle book using
Speaker 1: the Kindle app on your iPhone or on your iPad
Speaker 1: or on any device pretty much and finally Audible. If
Speaker 1: you haven't subscribed before, you can get your first three
Speaker 1: months at five dollars a month, which is like sixty
Speaker 1: five percent off. So again my advice, don't just mindly
Speaker 1: look for stuff to buy the day of Prime. You
Speaker 1: really have to do your homework before Prime Day starts,
Speaker 1: so start shopping now. Look for the stuff that you
Speaker 1: need and add it to your shopping cart. Now that way,
Speaker 1: when Prime Day rolls around, you can go in your
Speaker 1: shopping car on Amazon and you can see if anything
Speaker 1: has been discounted that you actually need, then you can
Speaker 1: purchase it now. If you do want to just check
Speaker 1: out deals and kind of browse through those, the best
Speaker 1: way to do that, I think is through the Amazon App.
Speaker 1: So you download the Amazon App, you press the menu button,
Speaker 1: tap Today's Deals. Then you can go to the upcoming
Speaker 1: tab and you can see all the deals that will
Speaker 1: be happening, including Prime Day deals. And if you want
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on a deal, you just say
Speaker 1: watch this deal, you tap that, and then your phone
Speaker 1: will send you a notification when it is time for
Speaker 1: that deal to go live.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1: That is the skinny on Amazon Prime Day twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: If you want to learn more, you can go.
Speaker 1: To my website rich on tech dot tv. I've got
Speaker 1: links to most of what I mentioned here, And if
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Speaker 1: Rich damiro Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you real soon.