Prime Day is here! July 16th 2018

UsulofDoom · Post by **UsulofDoom** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:14 pm

All ready have my eye on the Amazon fire TV Stick for $20. My Philips smart tv does not support prime video. My Samsung TVs do.

If we use the OO Amazon affiliate link above, is that good on all purchases or games only?

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:19 pm

UsulofDoom wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:14 pm All ready have my eye on the Amazon fire TV Stick for $20. My Philips smart tv does not support prime video. My Samsung TVs do.

If we use the OO Amazon affiliate link above, is that good on all purchases or games only?

All purchases!

Baroquen · Post by **Baroquen** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:19 pm

My understanding was all purchases.

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:47 pm

UsulofDoom wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:14 pm All ready have my eye on the Amazon fire TV Stick for $20. My Philips smart tv does not support prime video. My Samsung TVs do.

If we use the OO Amazon affiliate link above, is that good on all purchases or games only?

fyi, my philips TV didn't work with my amazon fire stick... tried 3 seperate sticks and none would work. Just a warning. My philips was a cheapie from costco.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:00 pm

UsulofDoom wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:14 pm All ready have my eye on the Amazon fire TV Stick for $20. My Philips smart tv does not support prime video. My Samsung TVs do.

There's also a Stick and Dot combo for $45. If you need a dot.

Got the Stick for a Panasonic Viera to replace a Sony smart Blu-ray player that isn't really that smart anymore.

Also got a Blink XT system for my parents. They've been wanting one so I figure the price is pretty good today.

Nothing else I'm really in the market for. Maybe some Pelican cases if they are deeply discounted.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:01 pm

I can see no reason to go and buy things if I don't need them even if they are on sale.

OMG, I just realized I sound like an adult!

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:27 pm

I asked my wife to put off a spendy trip to the mall today in order to see if the things she's looking for are any cheaper during this sale. Then she got called into work 2nd shift and will be unavailable until morning.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:31 pm

I might actually pull the trigger on a Paperwhite. II'm still using the 6" keyboard version from 2010 as it mostly works fine. Every few weeks it randomly loses my place or the battery goes from almost full to almost empty. I really can't complain; it's treated me quite nice.

UsulofDoom · Post by **UsulofDoom** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:21 pm

Anyone having trouble with the amazon site?

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:23 pm

Are these fire sticks faster than the first generation sticks? I like my original one, but those menus are sloooow.

Fitzy · Post by **Fitzy** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:23 pm

UsulofDoom wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:21 pm Anyone having trouble with the amazon site?

The sale site, yes. It just seems to loop back and not display anything. A bit slow as well.

Just using regular Amazon, no issues.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:27 pm

Having search issues on Amazon - Prime Day site is *down* for me.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:30 pm

I thought it was my ad blocker or something...yeah, I'm stuck in a loop, their "Shop all deals" link redirects me to a page with a couple more links and a promo for Echo and Echo Dot, and then no matter what else I click, I just end up back on the first page.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:32 pm

It's probably why they are running it for 36 hours - because they knew their servers just wouldn't be able to handle it.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:32 pm

No go on the website or app.

Good for about a $20 drop in share price. Welcome to prime time.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:33 pm

They should check out AWS auto-scaling... it's worked wonders for us. Now I am wondering if the sale might impact our production systems run on AWS hardware cloudware.

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:39 pm

For whatever reason, smile.amazon.com is working better than the www. site.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:40 pm

Yeah - this is a black eye to be sure. Even when I can get to the site - the cart is completely broken. Points to a back end database issue right now.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:49 pm

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/38656277/am ... -prime-day

Amazon suffers glitches at the start of Prime Day
Shoppers reported several errors — on both the desktop site and the mobile app

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:52 pm

Wow, that is some serious irony, considering their AWS division!

Mind. Blown.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:55 pm

Yep, I can't get on, either. What a mess.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:00 pm

The only other thing I'm actively in the market for (that Amazon sells) is a WiFi net. And Google's is going on sale at Target tomorrow. So guess I'm done for the day.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:24 pm

Seems to be working now.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:27 pm

Moot point since the only patio furniture I saw listed was umbrellas and I'm looking for a bistro set.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:28 pm

Jeff V wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:24 pm Seems to be working now.

Try adding something to a cart. Lol.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:40 pm

Working for me (cart included).

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:44 pm

stessier wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:40 pm Working for me (cart included).

The cart just finally allowed me to add something but check out didn't work. They are fixing problems one at a time apparently.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:45 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:32 pm
Good for about a $20 drop in share price. Welcome to prime time.

And about another $20 by the end of the trading day.

Still not working for me.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:48 pm

My wife really wants the Instant Pot for $58.99 but it is not looking good.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:01 pm

Holy crap, I'm looking at Amazon's stock price.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:19 pm

Just think if you'd invested like $5000 on Amazons opening stock offering and not touched it....millions.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:42 pm

In the early 1990s I was in grad school and had a Milton/17th Century Lit professor who failed to get tenure. After that, she moved out west to work with her old college friend who was just starting up his speculative online bookstore venture.

The friend was Bezos. My frustrated Milton professor is now worth many many millions of dollars.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:46 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:19 pm Just think if you'd invested like $5000 on Amazons opening stock offering and not touched it....millions.

Makes you think you should maybe try the same thing with China's Amazon. https://www.nasdaq.com/article/nows-the ... a-cm899992

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:23 pm

For whatever reason that Instant Pot is an impossible purchase. It can't be added to your cart and trying to add it will blow away your existing cart. My wife had a bunch of saved items and they were all wiped out by the wrath of the Instant Pot! #primedayfail

DOS=HIGH · Post by **DOS=HIGH** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:37 pm

em2nought wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:46 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:19 pm Just think if you'd invested like $5000 on Amazons opening stock offering and not touched it....millions.
Makes you think you should maybe try the same thing with China's Amazon. https://www.nasdaq.com/article/nows-the ... a-cm899992

If you would of followed that articles advice when it was published in January it would have had you selling the stock for a 20% loss in April or May. You should of done what I did a 5 years ago and sell Amazon stock after taking a 50% profit

DOS=HIGH · Post by **DOS=HIGH** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:46 pm

malchior wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:23 pm For whatever reason that Instant Pot is an impossible purchase. It can't be added to your cart and trying to add it will blow away your existing cart. My wife had a bunch of saved items and they were all wiped out by the wrath of the Instant Pot! #primedayfail

Seems to be working now for the Instant Pot, it has been a clustf*** with trying to buy stuff today.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:19 pm

Was gonna buy a Settlers of Catan expansion but realized I'd rather support the local game store, so not much for me. I might buy a memory card reader.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:26 pm

Dammit, the bed I bought two weeks ago is $150 cheaper today!

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:31 pm

I notice that the Corasair M65 Pro RGB is currently on a deal for $35. It's what I use, and it is the best gaming mouse I have ever owned.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:38 pm

Blackhawk wrote:Dammit, the bed I bought two weeks ago is $150 cheaper today!

Check the price match/return policy. You might be able to get it back.