What Are You on the Look out for This Prime Day/s

martinlufc5637 there’s usually some fairly good tv deals on prime day so hope you get what you’re looking for!

jms19 I got one, a 32 inch fire TV for £129, I used one of my LD vouchers, so was only £79, and a pair of beats studio 3 headphones, reduced from £349 to £139 for my oldest son, he's been asking for some for a while, I couldn't justify the £349 cost but at the reduced price couldn't buy them quick enough lol

PayItForward that’s a good idea, will definitely be on the look out myself after reading your comment

BonzoBanana Now that is some savvy shopping! I'm planning to get on the bank switches again but not sure if I'll be successful as I made close to £2k a few years ago doing it.

jms19 Wow that is serious money earnt. Hats off to you for that. I change occasionally to get rewarded for doing so.

BonzoBanana you should open a burner bank account then you can clean up with the bank switches. It’s very easy to do

jms19 I'd not heard the term 'burner account' before but looked it up. I moved to First Direct from Halifax and then after my Halifax current account was closed I opened up a new current account. I already have a existing Halifax savings account and credit card so it just re-appeared with those on my online account plus the Halifax cashback offers were re-enabled as soon as I opened the new current account so I guess I may look to switch again soon. I'll have to set up some standing orders or direct debits on it I guess. I guess I can do a standing order from my first direct account and then follow it with a later standing order from the halifax account etc. I.e. for bills that remain exactly the same like my council tax.

BonzoBanana what a lot of people do is set up direct debits to charities. Can do it for like £2 a month to each one, then you can get the switch

jms19 I'm too tight for that

BonzoBanana Good Evening, your topic was merged with this as it relates to Amazon Prime big deals and the discounts / pricing. We like to keep related topics in the same place and thread so nobody misses out on anything and we don't have multiple topics about the same event. Thank you

emmabeckz It wasn't about prime day it was a warning about some of the pricing on Amazon resale in general and how you have to be careful with some of the items that are incredibly over-priced for what they are, mixed in with the more realistic priced items. If you are confused about PC specs you could be caught. I bought a similar spec off Cashconverters about 3 years ago for £50 with 4GB of memory and a Celeron N4120. It was a bit low performance then but I wanted it because of the easy portability and long battery life but £345 in late 2024?! The Celeron N4120 was released in 2019 which is 5 years ago and even then was close to the bottom of Intel's chips being the quad core version of the similar dual core Celeron N4020 both have a low 4.8 or 6 watt TDP. So 5 years old, one step up from the slowest Intel processor of the time yet £345 in 2024.

To me it seems like you are being defensive of Amazon because of the affiliate income it generates for the site but this is anti-membership I feel. People need to be properly warned I feel when a site like Amazon has such products when they are so uncompetitive for their price point. I've seen some extremely negative comments about deals I've posted using such processors, i.e. paper weights, too slow etc and I listed those laptop deals at sub £100 on this site. Here we are with the same performance laptop at £345.

BonzoBanana Hello not at all as if that was the case we would delete your comment and not encourage you to post it on an Amazon Prime Day thread would we? As I explained above its so everything relating to Prime Day is in the same place so we don't have multiple topics about the same thing and people see the comments altogether.

Also you might be interested to read this article in our news section that we published about not getting caught out on Prime Day with fake discounts that was posted before you posted this so its definitely nothing to do with affiliate income.

www.latestdeals.co.uk/news/amazon-expert-reveals-save-200-primes-big-deal-day-plus-scam-warning

Thank you

emmabeckz As I wrote previously my comment was not related to prime day but a general comment about Amazon Reuse/Warehouse so I think we will just have to agree to disagree.

Pjran I've never paid for prime, I have 4 Amazon accounts and each one throws up a free prime trial occasionally. So tend to a trial on one account at prime day and black friday. A good time to catch up on prime video too. Just watching the Fallout TV series again. Personally I would never subscribe to Prime, these sort of vampire payments can be very damaging. £9 a month is £108 a year or £540 over 5 years. If you are the type of person who has other vampire payments always happening in the background it can lead to debt and interest payments on those debts which of course adds hugely to your debts and can be a vicious cycle of debt.

The average credit card money owed is £1675 in the UK and that suggest a debt that most people couldn't pay off completely each month so means a huge amount of interest being paid. A story on the Guardian has someone who owes £25k on two credit cards which is a frightening figure.

BonzoBanana I always pay my credit card off in full every month. A friend once owed over £10k on her credit card and wasn’t concerned by the amount if interest charged monthly. Her attitude was I can afford it and it’s convenient !

Pjran i know people like that, a lot of my friends got cars on finance and when i pointed out they’re paying thousands more they weren’t really fussed.

I suppose as long as they can pay it off and it doesn’t stress them then it’s fine but there’s not a chance in hell i’d do that unless there was no other option

jms19 it really doesn’t make sense to me finding the best offer then paying huge interest costs.

Pjran The credit card company must love her and I guess we should too as her behaviour often subsidies the accounts we have with credit cards where we don't pay interest. Banks seem to work on the premise that only a small percentage of their customers generate profit with credit cards, often those who don't pay interest are loss making but only a small loss. Banks used to get big fees from transactions on credit cards but those are gone now except for American Express which most shops won't accept nowadays. My reward credit card gives me a paltry 0.25% on purchases so I get a £1 back on every £400 spent. I maybe do £4000 a year on it so £10 back which doesn't seem a lot but its better than nothing. It's still free money. In the past it was easy to find a credit card that gave 1% back on purchases. I think there are still some that do but they normally have monthly fees which completely eliminate the benefit.