Gadgetory

Amazon Prime day is a beast of a sale day but it's easy to tame if you know the right tricks some basics first the main day of the sale is Tuesday July 11th and it goes on for 30 hours so depending on where you live in the world the sale can actually start Monday here in the US on the East Coast it's 9:00 p.m. and there are even earlier sales perks for anyone who shops with their voice using the voice assistant Alexa there are tons and tons of odd items on sale things you may not normally buy and things you may never have thought of buying but suddenly want to buy because it's on sale and why not right but not everything goes on sale right away amazon spreads out the deals throughout the day you can browse what will go on sale at amazon.com slash prime day if you spot something interesting click watch this deal if you have the amazon app you'll get a notification when the sale begins now the biggest deals in gadgetry tend to be with Amazon's own devices the echo is 50% off priced at $90 there are also sales on Amazon's tablets and e-readers some video games and accessories are half off if you only care about a TV go to amazon.com slash Prime day TV deals there's a 55 inch 4k Ultra HD TV with Amazon fire built in it's normally 650 but it'll be $400 an assortment of gift cards are also on sale lots of grocery items are half off but once an item is on sale there is a limited amount available you can add something to your cart but if you don't buy it within 15 minutes you may lose the item and anyone who is on the wait list will have a chance to snag it but just because something says it's discounted doesn't mean it's the best deal do your homework the site camel camel camel is one place that tracks the history of prices on Amazon plus if you only care about one specific thing use camel camel camel to notify you when that item drops in price the mid-year shopping sale is something Amazon started doing a few years ago and last year it was Amazon's biggest sales day ever with more orders than even Black Friday this year it's expanding to more countries you can only shop the deals if you are a member of the prime subscription service now that normally costs around $100 a year if he never had crime before you can sign up for a free trial to access the deals I'm Bridget Carey for more tips on tackling primed a head-to cnet.com