What is Amazon Prime Day?

Amazon Prime Day, from its name, is a specific promotion day for Amazon Prime. On this carnival day, Amazon Prime can get a heavy discount through activities like Lightning Deals, Best Deals, Coupons, and Deals of the Day. We have Black Friday in winter and Thanksgiving Day in spring for snapping up, while Amazon Prime Day is the first shopping day in summer. If you want to save more money, it’s a day you should not miss. GAOMON will also join in on Prime Day to offer you great price deals. Here some information about Amazon Prime Day for your reference.

Brief History

In 2005, Amazon launched its Prime service which offers free two-day delivery and other benefits for its subscribers. On July 15, 2015, Amazon started its first ‘Amazon Prime Day’ to celebrate its 20^th birthday. Since then, on its fourth Prime Day in 2018, the day has become one of the annually biggest shopping days which rivals Black Friday. This day has helped us save huge from technology devices to home entertainment products. And its fourth Prime Day will fall on 16 July, in 2018.

Time

Prime Day often falls in mid-July. It’s changeable. Last year in 2017, it was on July 11. This year, it is on July 16 and will last for 36 hours. And please note it is a one-day-only event in a year.

Who can enjoy

Basically, only Amazon Prime subscribers can get these promotional benefits on Prime Day. This year, Australia, Singapore, Netherlands, and Luxembourg will join in on Prime Day for the first time. The list on Prime Day also includes US, UK, Spain, Mexico, China, Japan, India, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Belgium, and Austria.

This year, Amazon also announces it will extend the Prime Day to its physical stores in the US, including Whole Foods and Amazon Books.

How to participate

If you’ve never subscribed before, you can get a free trial of one-month Prime. You should become a Prime before the start of Prime Day in order to shop in huge reduce on the Day. You can unsubscribe before its trial period ending.

Recently, Amazon raised its annual subscribed fee to $119 from $99 year-annually. It means Amazon has to work harder to draw new prime registers. As a Prime, you can not only take advantage of Prime Day, but also the instant streaming of selected films and TV programs at no additional cost, access to the Kindle owner’s lending library which allows you to borrow Kindle e-books for free reading, unlimited, ad-free streaming of millions of songs and unlimited photo storage in your Amazon Drive. You can also get free shipping if your county was on the list of it free area.

How to know whether an item is really on sales

You may find that almost every day is a promotional day when opening your browser. Then how to get the real information about sales day?

You can track Amazon price histories from CamelCamelCamel. Copy the URL of a Prime Day deal and paste it in the search field of CamelCamelCamel and check the results.

Hope you will save much as you can in the duration of Prime Day. GAOMON is also on the list of Prime promotion dealers. Go to our Amazon store to check the device that you like:

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