Amazon beats Black Friday with the first Prime Day sale

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EditorSean
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19 Jul 2015

It seems Amazon is only comparing against the Black Friday day rather than the week it runs its lengthy selections of lightning deals for. Generally I always get a few items during the Black Friday week, but there was nothing on Prime Day that convinced me to sign-up, at least nothing that would recoup the cost of the subscription.

Another problem with Amazon Prime is that the service is useless in Ireland. When I signed up for a trial last year, the Prime Instant Video on Amazon UK is all UK-geographically locked and the same with the Prime deliveries, so I had to cancel the trial before it would start charging me for a service that I could not use.

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niti
w43
18 Jul 2015

friday ws block..hahahaha

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itwasboundtohappen
jBv
18 Jul 2015

Boldy, 17 Jul 20151 hour and 0 comments. Ditching disqus is surely paying off. Cnet suffered a lot from doing the switch too. They used to have a great comment community, but after switching to Lyfe instead of Disqus the community died

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Pavan
kDj
17 Jul 2015

Walmart deals are far better that amazon

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Anonymous
RYf
17 Jul 2015

Wasn't that many good deals really. I was disappointed.

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Chief
LaT
17 Jul 2015

Amazon prime day was a joke

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Nite
utJ
17 Jul 2015

OO.. Canada you never seizes to amaze everyone
Seriously huggies diapers😂

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techmad
Q18
17 Jul 2015

Prime Day was nothing more than a glorified Garage Sale by Amazon. Nothing useful at all. I got better deals at Walmart.

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Itn
17 Jul 2015

Boldy, 17 Jul 20151 hour and 0 comments. Ditching disqus is surely paying off. Maybe, and this is a big "Maybe", it has more to do with the content than the commenting system.

I'm just a small town commenter who thought people came to a site to discuss the articles. Turns out they might just show up to use the commenting system to talk about random topics.