TL;DR: I found October’s Amazon Prime deals that are *actually* historically great buys!
Update – October 9th: Prime Big Deal Days starts tomorrow! But I’ve been looking at the deals rolling in, and I just updated the 10 best early deals that are flying off the shelves (and have better prices than we’ve seen all year!)
I’ve been watching all of the October Prime Day deals that are being quietly rolled out before the big “Prime Big Deal Days” starts on Oct 10-11th.
I got to thinking, are these actually good deals? Or are they just trying to make us think we’re saving money when in reality they just jacked up the price and then discounted it again to make us feel good for paying the same as everyone else?
So then I got to math-ing… (did you know that in the UK they say “maths”?). This part was hard, but I actually looked back at our records for the prices on the top-selling products. This isn’t necessarily a definitive list, but we’ve tracked the prices on a lot of products, so we can actually see the historical averages for thousands of items for sale on Amazon.
You know what I found? Some of these early deals are actually not that great. I left those off this list. I put ’em all in a spreadsheet (again, maths), and I filtered out anything where the current deal price isn’t LOWER than the average price of that product from the last year. And that’s saying something, because there were lots of deals in the last year. So, for these products to stand out, they have to be selling them for EVEN LESS than the average across all of that time. Pretty cool, huh? Now I just need to write to my 4th-grade teacher and tell him I DO use math(s) in my work!
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There you are my friends. The power of 4th-grade math + nerdy spreadsheet skills are really coming in handy right about now! Stay tuned, we’ve got more Amazon coupons and deals coming!
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days (aka “October Prime Day” or “Prime Day 2”) is the second major sales event for Amazon Prime members during the year. As a follow-up to Prime Day (which normally happens in July), Prime Big Deal Days takes place in October, with the major sale days of Oct 10-11th.
As a part of Amazon’s Associate program, 22 Words has an affiliate relationship with Amazon, where we earn a small commission (at no cost to you) of sales on the products we feature. Because we get a report of which products sold, and at what price, we have been saving this data in order to track the historical prices of as many products as we can. This is not an official Amazon data source and we do not track the prices of all products, but we see enough sales that we feel confident that we can share this as the real average price for these products for the last year.
Most of these deals will end on October 10 or 11th, but there are some that may last longer. Also, Amazon does not guarantee that all deals will last until any date, so it’s possible that some of these deals may end earlier than expected.
You bet your dash button you can! This happens to be one of our favorite things to write about, so check out our deals page, including Today’s Amazon Deals, which we update every single day. You can also checkout the amazon coupons page for some tips on how to find coupons for your Amazon account, or just surf the deal pages when looking for what you need!
Yes. Amazon Prime Big Deal Days are exclusively for Amazon Prime members. There are some deals and offers that may also be good for non-prime members, but for the most part, you’re going to want that Prime account if you want in on these deals.