Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Day off to a rough start. What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm rich damiro. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Amazon's yearly sale called Prime Day is happening now, but
Speaker 2: it did get off to kind of a rough start Monday.
Speaker 2: Many users couldn't access the deals they wanted because the
Speaker 2: site had many problems and error messages. Those error messages
Speaker 2: featured cute photos of dogs, which are actually Amazon employees pooches,
Speaker 2: But as cute as they were, they were still frustrating
Speaker 2: to see for the millions of shoppers looking for major
Speaker 2: discount myself included. I basically gave up on the website
Speaker 2: and said, well, I guess I'll figure this out tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Amazon acknowledged the issues about two hours into Prime Day
Speaker 2: with a tweet, and now the errors have seemed to
Speaker 2: simmer down and he can grab some of those deals.
Speaker 2: Amazon says Prime Day sales in the US are bigger
Speaker 2: than ever evenwithstanding all the problems in the first ten hours,
Speaker 2: Prime Day sales.
Speaker 1: Grew faster than last year.
Speaker 2: As for those items discounted, as you might imagine, Amazon
Speaker 2: is really pushing its own brands.
Speaker 1: Those have the biggest cuts.
Speaker 2: Electronics are popular, So here are some of my picks
Speaker 2: Amazon Cloudcam. That's just sixty dollars down from one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty dollars. So if you need a security camera
Speaker 2: for your house, that's a really fantastic deal. The Ring
Speaker 2: Video Doorbell two is one hundred forty dollars normally that's
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety nine dollars, and that's a great
Speaker 2: way to add that video doorbell everyone is getting to
Speaker 2: their front door. The Amazon Fire TV Cube is just
Speaker 2: ninety dollars, which is thirty dollars off. You can nab
Speaker 2: a fifty inch Toshiba four K fireTV for just two
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty nine dollars. That's right, a fifty inch
Speaker 2: TV for under three hundred bucks. That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 2: And if you have your eyes on a kindle, which
Speaker 2: I think is the best digital way to read a book,
Speaker 2: I go back and forth between digital and regular old
Speaker 2: paperback and hardcover. But those kindles are all on sale,
Speaker 2: and there is one easy way to save an extra
Speaker 2: five dollars on selected Prime Day deals. If you open
Speaker 2: up the Amazon app on your phone and you try
Speaker 2: out a new feature, you'll get a little coupon code
Speaker 2: for five dollars off one of the selected Amazon deals.
Speaker 2: It's not anything, but there are some things on there
Speaker 2: that you might be interested in. So to get it,
Speaker 2: you have to open up the app and try one
Speaker 2: of those new features. You can try the ar view,
Speaker 2: which is augmented reality view. You basically aim your camera
Speaker 2: at something in your house, like a table, and you
Speaker 2: can put a product from Amazon right on that table
Speaker 2: and see it in sort of virtual augmented reality. You
Speaker 2: can use the product search, you can use the barcode
Speaker 2: scanner or the package x ray. All of these features
Speaker 2: will activate a five dollars off a Prime Day deal
Speaker 2: purchased through the app, and you can do this every
Speaker 2: six hours, so I check this and some of the
Speaker 2: deals you know, they basically give you the coupon and
Speaker 2: then they give you a bunch of items that you
Speaker 2: can use the coupon on. So it may not match up.
Speaker 2: You may not want to buy any of those items,
Speaker 2: but at least it's kind of fun to try the
Speaker 2: new feature out and see if the discount works for.
Speaker 1: Something you want.
Speaker 2: You can also ask Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?
Speaker 2: And if you spend ten dollars at Whole Foods today,
Speaker 2: you'll still get ten dollars towards your Prime Day purchase.
Speaker 1: Is running out on that one, so you have to
Speaker 1: act fast.
Speaker 2: And if you've never tried Amazon Prime now, this is
Speaker 2: one of my favorite ways to order things really fast.
Speaker 1: They deliver things to your house in a nunder two hours.
Speaker 2: You can place your first order on Prime Day today
Speaker 2: and you'll get ten dollars off a future order. This
Speaker 2: is not available on all locations, but you have to
Speaker 2: try it out.
Speaker 1: Today's also a great day to.
Speaker 2: Buy my book on the Kindle, which is one hundred
Speaker 2: and one Handy.
Speaker 1: Tech Tips for the iPhone.
Speaker 2: Basically, if you purchase it today, that will activate a
Speaker 2: discount good for thirty percent off your next Kindle book.
Speaker 2: So keep in mind you only have until July thirty
Speaker 2: first to buy your next book with the discount.
Speaker 1: That's not a.
Speaker 2: Very long runway, but it's still pretty good. If you
Speaker 2: buy my book and then you buy a second Kindle
Speaker 2: book in.
Speaker 1: The future and the next week or two, so you
Speaker 1: get thirty percent off that one.
Speaker 2: Also one deal that I've taken advantage of three months
Speaker 2: of Audible for just five dollars a month. That's a
Speaker 2: really fantastic deal. It did work for me I've already
Speaker 2: downloaded my first book. And if you're wondering, well, wait
Speaker 2: a second, I'm already an audible customer.
Speaker 1: I've been a cut in the past.
Speaker 2: It did work for me, and I've been an audible
Speaker 2: customer in the past, so that one seems to work
Speaker 2: for new and existing customers.
Speaker 1: There you have at Amazon Prime Day twenty eighteen off.
Speaker 2: To a rough start, but still a very good day
Speaker 2: to find great deals on Amazon, especially if you're buying
Speaker 2: stuff that you actually need. Keep in mind, if you're
Speaker 2: listening to this after midnight Pacific on July seventeenth, well
Speaker 2: you'll just have to wait until next.
Speaker 1: Year for more deals. And one tidbit for your Jeopardy audition.
Speaker 2: Amazon started on July fifth, nineteen ninety four, which might
Speaker 2: explain why Prime Day is in July.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. I'm Rich Tomurro links to.
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