July 15th Amazon Prime Day
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
Can you throw obstacles in front of her to make her really work for those steps?
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
Yeah, they caught on at work for a while, and she's been walking some, but it seems more like a reminder that you didn't get around to doing it today, at our age.
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
I've been watching the Amazon lightning deals all day to pick up some good ones, but nothing yet.hepcat wrote:Can you throw obstacles in front of her to make her really work for those steps?
Maybe next year, maybe no go
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
I attach mine to my sock. I'm one of those people that tends to constantly bounce my leg. My siblings are the same way. So I hit my steps pretty easily most days. I wouldn't bother, but my company tied it financially to our health care premium discounts.
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Premium discounts would be nice. I just get $200 off my deductible. Which I just realized didn't actually happen.
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I've got a Garmin VivoSmart, and I find that I like it more for at-a-glance text notifications than I do for the exercise stuff. It would be better if it could deliver electric shocks when I failed to stand up after extended sitting sessions.
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
I have to say reading the tweets about how bad Prime Day sucked has been well worth any disappointment. Comedy gold. I'm still laughing at one that compared it to the clearance table at TJ Maxx.
Some other favorites:
"It's like Christmas, but with only gifts your Grandma would get you."
"It's really cool that Amazon was able to raid a Rite Aid and an abandoned Circuit City for this Prime Day sale!"
"Prime Day is like receiving a treasure map & when you find the treasure chest it's filled with shoe horns and compression socks."
Some other favorites:
"It's like Christmas, but with only gifts your Grandma would get you."
"It's really cool that Amazon was able to raid a Rite Aid and an abandoned Circuit City for this Prime Day sale!"
"Prime Day is like receiving a treasure map & when you find the treasure chest it's filled with shoe horns and compression socks."
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
If you buy apps from the Amazon app store and have prime, you can get extra coins if you buy 5000 or 10000 coins.
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I've managed to put jungle speed in my cart. The question is... do I get it?
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
You know looking at the name of the sale and seeing how bad its going it makes me think of the Star Wars Holiday Special and Life Day
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
I bought a $7 item and checked to see if they would give me $1 of download credit to ship it without 2-day delivery. This time they offered $3. I hope that price stays.
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
Same here. $7 phone mount for my car, $3 credit to get it on 7/22.McNutt wrote:I bought a $7 item and checked to see if they would give me $1 of download credit to ship it without 2-day delivery. This time they offered $3. I hope that price stays.
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That was my $7 purchase too.
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I imagine it's either a special for the day, or just because they expect they'll have a lot of shipping to get done because of the extra orders. So probably temporary.McNutt wrote:I bought a $7 item and checked to see if they would give me $1 of download credit to ship it without 2-day delivery. This time they offered $3. I hope that price stays.
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The magnetic one? If so, I bought it too!
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There a lot of brilliance going around, it seems.
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
Well at least Prime Day gave us a bunch of humorous tweets about how sucky Prime Day was and it was free!
From Gizmodo:
#PrimeDayFail Is a Billion Times Better Than Amazon's Prime Day
From Gizmodo:
#PrimeDayFail Is a Billion Times Better Than Amazon's Prime Day
It's really cool that @amazon was able to raid a Rite Aid and an abandoned Circuit City for this #PrimeDay sale!
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
$iljanus wrote: From Gizmodo:It's really cool that @amazon was able to raid a Rite Aid and an abandoned Circuit City for this #PrimeDay sale!
YellowKing wrote:I have to say reading the tweets about how bad Prime Day sucked has been well worth any disappointment. Comedy gold. I'm still laughing at one that compared it to the clearance table at TJ Maxx.
Some other favorites:
"It's like Christmas, but with only gifts your Grandma would get you."
"It's really cool that Amazon was able to raid a Rite Aid and an abandoned Circuit City for this Prime Day sale!"
"Prime Day is like receiving a treasure map & when you find the treasure chest it's filled with shoe horns and compression socks."
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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Doh! Didn't see that. I blame Amazon Prime Day because why not?
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In the "too little, too late" column, I decided to check on a twitter account for @mazon. Someone else had that idea, and then got the account suspended.
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
I thought the deals were pretty underwhelming, and anything worth buying sold out too fast. My only "haul" from yesterday was a year's supply of vitamin D3 and a 2-plug USB car charger (the price on the charger was very good but I think it wasn't even part of the Prime Day deals).
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
After crushing Black Friday records, Amazon to bring back Prime Day
The e-commerce giant reported Thursday that on its first Prime Day -- held to celebrate its 20th anniversary -- it sold more units than "the biggest Black Friday ever," which was in 2014. It also said it had more new members sign up for its Prime membership service than any single day in Amazon history, with hundreds of thousands of new people joining.
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Some of the numbers proved staggering, particularly because the sale was only available to Prime members, who pay $99 annually for free, two-day shipping and other benefits. Worldwide order growth jumped 18 percent over Black Friday 2014, as customers ordered 34.4 million items across Prime-eligible countries, breaking all Black Friday records with 398 items ordered per second. The sale moved 47,000 televisions, 51,000 Bose headphones, and 14,000 iRobot Roomba vacuum-cleaning robots -- compared with just one unit sold the previous Wednesday.
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
But how many flipflops were sold? That's the real question.
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Basing it on items sold, not revenue, is a bit sketchy but you can't argue with something that sells 14K Roombas.
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I think it's a bit disingenuous for them to talk about how many Prime subs they sold, as if that will *ever* happen again after the widespread mocking they received for their disappointing deals. Those Prime subs were sold to people based on the expectation that the sale was going to be awesome. Do they expect people to fall for that again?
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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I think Amazon expects those people to use Prime and be wowed by it.RunningMn9 wrote:I think it's a bit disingenuous for them to talk about how many Prime subs they sold, as if that will *ever* happen again after the widespread mocking they received for their disappointing deals. Those Prime subs were sold to people based on the expectation that the sale was going to be awesome. Do they expect people to fall for that again?
Assuming they bought something in the sale, they'll have it by now, shipped for free via 2-day. Even if it's just a useless 8GB thumb drive or pink flip flops, it gets Amazon's foot in their door and plants the Prime seed. There is also the Prime Digital stuff that I'm sure they're bombarding them with. They have a year to win the customer over.
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And for the customer to forget that it auto-renews.
Note the use of the word 'eligible'.Note: Paid members who haven't placed an Amazon Prime eligible order are eligible for a full refund. You can't receive a refund if any of the household members have placed an Amazon Prime eligible order.
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
My dad still uses the telephone book and my mom was mad the other day she couldn't find movie times in the newspaper. If Amazon was able to get but a 10th of the Silver Tsunami generation to join for the Amazon Prime sale bonanza, they're going to do fine. Because as near as I can tell, that was the group of people they were targeting with deals.
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That's not what I meant. They certainly did something that got a lot of new people to subscribe. I'm just questioning the notion that next Prime Day, we'll see a lot more new subs, now that people understand that "Prime Day" is just a day for Amazon to clear old stock that no one was buying any other way.LawBeefaroni wrote:They have a year to win the customer over.
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Your parents are the best.Smoove_B wrote:My dad still uses the telephone book and my mom was mad the other day she couldn't find movie times in the newspaper.
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Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
But the monkey in the corner
Well he's slowly drifting out of range
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
But the monkey in the corner
Well he's slowly drifting out of range
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They may have upwards of 50M Prime members right now. It's as much about maintaining the perception of Prime's value as it gaining new members. By next year they could have 60M. That's nearly 1/5 of the population paying to be a customer.RunningMn9 wrote:That's not what I meant. They certainly did something that got a lot of new people to subscribe. I'm just questioning the notion that next Prime Day, we'll see a lot more new subs, now that people understand that "Prime Day" is just a day for Amazon to clear old stock that no one was buying any other way.LawBeefaroni wrote:They have a year to win the customer over.
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Or rather, nearly 1/5 of the population pre-paying their first $100 of shipping each year.LawBeefaroni wrote:That's nearly 1/5 of the population paying to be a customer.
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And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
But the monkey in the corner
Well he's slowly drifting out of range
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
But the monkey in the corner
Well he's slowly drifting out of range
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Or that. Which is fine with Amazon since the average Prime customer spends 3-4 times annually what a non-Prime customer does.RunningMn9 wrote:Or rather, nearly 1/5 of the population pre-paying their first $100 of shipping each year.LawBeefaroni wrote:That's nearly 1/5 of the population paying to be a customer.
FWIW I'm confident I'm in the black, shipping-wise, with Prime this CY and there are still 5+ months to go.
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Absolutely. I buy things on Amazon that I normally would not, because shipping is "free". I have no doubt that I save more than $99 on shipping annually.LawBeefaroni wrote:FWIW I'm confident I'm in the black, shipping-wise, with Prime this CY and there are still 5+ months to go.
And in banks across the world
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
But the monkey in the corner
Well he's slowly drifting out of range
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
But the monkey in the corner
Well he's slowly drifting out of range
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Don't forget that you get about half a Netflix out of it. That's about $50 in value.RunningMn9 wrote:Or rather, nearly 1/5 of the population pre-paying their first $100 of shipping each year.LawBeefaroni wrote:That's nearly 1/5 of the population paying to be a customer.
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I had Prime and did not find it to compare to Netflix. I ditched it. Of course I also ditched Netflix, so pass me the phone book.
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Re: July 15th Amazon Prime Day
When Amazon Prime video started, it really wasn't all that much value. Now? It's much better and their rental prices are competitive -- particularly when you select "No Rush Shipping" as part of your Prime membership and they give you $1+ in rental credits.
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One of the big advantages Prime has over Netflix is all the top-notched HBO programs. For those without HBO GO, having access to that quality content is huge. We just re-watched the Wire on Prime, now that it is completely in HD. Best show ever.JetFred wrote:I had Prime and did not find it to compare to Netflix.