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- Amazon Prime Day is coming up.

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I've got some help for you
if you find it confusing.

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These are gonna be my top five
tips for Amazon Prime Day.

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Don't wait for the actual Prime Day days.

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This year, it's gonna
be July 11th and 12th,

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but a lot of early sales
are already happening.

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They really start right
around the end of June,

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beginning of July.

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If you go on Amazon's website,

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they even say early Prime Day deals

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and there are a lot of things on sale

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that are not even listed
as early Prime Day deals

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and what's more than that,
you can go to other retailers,

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whether it's Best Buy or Target or Walmart

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or anybody like that

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and they've got their
own early summer deals.

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They're not gonna say Prime Day,

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but the key is if you're
looking for certain items,

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especially some of Amazon's own brands,

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like Amazon makes Kindle and
they make the Fire Tablets

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they make Fire TV sticks
and actual TV sets

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and Blink Cameras and things like that,

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you might find some of those items,

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usually not everything
in the entire category,

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usually just a few specific items

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within each Amazon brand
or already on sale now.

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You do have to watch out though.

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Some of these early sales,
they show up, they disappear.

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They may not last all
the way till Prime Day.

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They may change over time.

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So if you see somebody posting a deal

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that sounds like a good
early Prime Day deal,

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go check it out and make
sure it's still there.

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Now the real point of Amazon Prime Day,

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it's not just to get you to
buy things at a discount,

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it's to get you to buy an
Amazon Prime Membership

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which is currently $140 a year.

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A lot of people are already Prime Members

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'cause they want the free shipping

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or they like the Amazon
Prime video catalog

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which is really good

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or some of the other
extra that they offer.

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But if you've held out,

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that stuff doesn't have
a big appeal for you,

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maybe getting these
Amazon Prime Day discounts

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is enough to get you to sign up.

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But if it's not, you could
still get the sale prices

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because Amazon still
has a 30 day free trial

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for Amazon Prime Memberships.

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If you go and sign up,
let's say right now,

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that'll take you through
Prime Day on the 11th and 12th

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and also the early Prime Day sales

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and then you can just cancel.

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You don't have to get the
full year's membership

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in order to take advantage
of these Prime Day prices.

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So all these other retailers

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are hopping on the Amazon
Prime Day bandwagon.

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They're having their own summertime sales.

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They used to call them things like,

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Black Friday in July.

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I think one of them still does that.

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They come up with their own names

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and they're around the same dates,

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not usually the same exact
dates, but they're pretty close.

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So for example, Target
has Target Circle Week.

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Walmart has Walmart+ Week, Best
Buy had a big July 4th sale

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and they're transitioning into,

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they're actually called
Black Friday in July sale

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and you can check the
dates for all of these.

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They're roughly within a
couple of days of Prime Day.

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Some of them are a little bit longer.

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The real advantage there for you

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is that you can open up
a couple of browser tabs

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and comparison shop between
all these different stores

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if they carry the same merchandise.

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So you can see if the
Prime Day deal better,

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is the Target Circle
deal better and so on.

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So you have more choices,
which is always a good idea

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when you're looking to save money.

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There's a lot of categories of things

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that are gonna be on sale for Prime Day,

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both on Amazon and at other retailers,

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whatever they call their sales.

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I think some of the key
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of course, tech and electronic.

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That's always big.

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You can especially get really good deals

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on Amazon's own devices.

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I don't think anyone has ever
bought an Amazon Echo Dot

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at full price, which is like 50 bucks.

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They're always on sale,
whether it's Prime Day,

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Black Friday, they have a couple

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of other sales during the year.

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Just buy those then.

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The same thing goes for Kindle devices

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like the Paper White, wait for
Prime Day or another holiday,

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get 'em on sale.

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Amazon also owns Blink
Cameras, Eero Routers.

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Besides the Fire TV Stick,

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they actually make some pretty
decent Fire TV full TV sets

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right now and these are some things

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you're definitely gonna find
discounted for Prime Day.

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You can also find good deals
on some TVs from Samsung

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and TCL and LG.

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It's also a good time
to look for that stuff,

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especially if you remember
to comparison shop.

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Other categories you're
gonna find good deals on

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for Prime Day and Amazon
and other retailers,

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computer stuff, memory,
accessories, kitchen gadgets,

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things like air fryers and
instant pots, sometimes tools.

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One of my favorite category's 3D printers.

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I always see a lot of
good 3D printer deals.

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Check to see if a sale is really a sale

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and what I mean by that is even though

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something is discounted,
let's say for Prime Day,

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Amazon says it's a sale,
is it really a sale?

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How much did it cost last
week, the week before?

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How much did it cost six months ago?

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The ability to go back and
do that history tracking

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of sale price at Amazon is key.

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There are a few ways to do that.

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One of the all time favorites

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is a website called Camel, Camel, Camel,

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exactly how it sounds and you can plug in

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a link from Amazon, a product
name, the product ID number

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and it's gonna give you historical data

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on the price of that item over time.

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You can look one month,
three months, six months,

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a year, you can adjust how
far back you wanna look

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and that will show you
whether this is a small sale

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they're making a big deal of,

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whether it was cheaper three months ago,

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whether you should wait for Black Friday

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'cause that's when this type
of device is always on sale.

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It just gives you that historical
data you can look through

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because I'm always suspicious of sales.

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I always say to myself,

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"Did they just raise the price last week

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"to put it on sale this week?"

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Well, if you use a history
tracker like Camel, Camel, Camel,

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you have some ammunition to go

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and do that research yourself.

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Those are some of my Amazon
Prime Day shopping tips

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I've put together from years
of covering this type of event.

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Over at Gizmodo, we're gonna keep track

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of some of the best
early deals and the best

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and possibly worst things
to buy on Prime Day itself.