Update 6/22/20: Looks like some of this sale is now live. E.g up to 50% off fashion (our affiliate link). I suspect more items will go on sale throughout the day, we will post any major deals.
Original post: Via CNBC, Amazon plans to have a major summer sale even beginning June 22nd. Alternatively called ‘Biggest Sale in the Sky’ or ‘Biggest Summer Sale’ or ‘Fashion Summer Sale Event’, the event will begin on June 22nd and continue for between 7 and 10 days.
The goal here is to streamline Amazon sales, after the major disruption of COVID-19. The event seems to be primarily to help sellers boost sales and renormalize their inventory.
Amazon has reached out to sellers with information about the upcoming event, and asked sellers to pitch deals for the event. They requested from sellers deals with at least 30% discount.
The event will be ‘invitation only’ meaning that Amazon and select sellers will come to terms on which deals will become part of the official Amazon summer sale. I expect lots of sellers to try jumping in and run special offers as well, even those not part of the official summer sale.
The upcoming sale is not in place of Prime Day which was delayed this year and is slated to take place in September. The deals for this summer sale will likely be equally available for those with or without Prime membership (my guess).
I’m optimistic we’ll see things like more Shop-With-Points deals (the gift that keeps on giving…), both during this summer event and later in September for Prime Day. We’ll likely see other promotions too, such gift card deals, deals on Amazon devices, and similar promotions.
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in the end, this is just a small clearance of clothing inventory…
Always check amazon “sales” at camelcamelcamel.com to see if it is really a sale price or not.
The price of just about everything in my saved items list has gone up since I last looked.
sounds like a fake sale
Amazon charged me for return. Is this something new. It was free int if i dropped it off at an amazon hub 10 miles away.
I also bought something that had one year money back satisfaction guaranteed. I wanted to return it after getting it and it wouldn’t let me. Saying return not allowed. Only after i tried to chat the system automatically refunded me the money and said keep the product complimentary.
Amazon is nickle and diming. And their customer service is going to shit.
Since I’d the products i bought are still much cheaper than elsewhere ( i bought appliance replacement parts) but you have to search yup. See if they are the same specs.
I really don’t understand the hyper fascination with amazon.
> Amazon charged me for return.
Awesome, congrats!
Maybe they can start shipping 2 day again. They have overplayed the COVID excuse. Items that should ship 2 days as a paying prime member are taking weeks to even leave the warehouse. When they do, they ship the slowest speed. Amazon is using COVID as an excuse to slash their shipping costs!
I have been receiving a lot of items with 2 day shipping recently especially since they have limited offering digital credits for delayed shipping (for me at least)
I started back getting items the same day.
socal here, same day shipping is yet to come back, but I’m seeing a lot of free next day now. a few orders were originally promised ~7days actually arrived in 1-2 days
30% off when they just increased a lot of products shipped and sold by amazon by 10-35%
Include 30% off Amazon prime renewel and we could call it a Summer sale…
Ugh, OK. Maybe I’ll be able to buy some stuff at re-covid prices during this sale. Not holding my breath though.
2 for 1 face masks of dubious quality.
30% discount on Amazon reminds me of looking at a Kohl’s receipt savings and saying, “yeah right”
So true. I love Kohl’s but their pricing is totally driven by psychology of sales to trick people into buying. Everything is always on sale and it drives me crazy!
When everything’s on sale, nothing’s on sale.
But it is for sale.
kohls will put their real estate on sale soon enough
Try looking for clothes, especially women’s, on Poshmark. You’ll never pay full price for an item of clothing again, largely because you realize how many people have and are trying to get rid of them.