July 17, 2018 • 4 mins
Amazon Prime Day 2018 got off to a rough start with lots of shoppers complaining about error messages full of cute dogs. But the site eventually came back online and Amazon says Prime Day is off to a bigger start than last year.Amazon Prime Day Deals:https://amzn.to/2Jw74PxFollow Rich on Social Media:Facebook: http://facebook.com/RichOnTechTwitter: http://twitter.com/richdemuroInstagram: http://instagram.com/richontechEasy ways to listen on your phone or smart speaker:"Hey Google, Play the Rich on Tech Podcast""Hey Siri, Play the Rich on Tech Podcast""Alexa, Enable the Rich on Tech Flash Briefing"
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Amazon Prime Day off to a rough start. What's going on?
I'm rich damiro. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Amazon's yearly sale called Prime Day is happening now, but
it did get off to kind of a rough start Monday.
Many users couldn't access the deals they wanted because the
site had many problems and error messages. Those error messages
featured cute photos of dogs, which are actually Amazon employees pooches,
But as cute as they were, they were still frustrating
to see for the millions of shoppers looking for major
(00:33):
discount myself included. I basically gave up on the website
and said, well, I guess I'll figure this out tomorrow.
Amazon acknowledged the issues about two hours into Prime Day
with a tweet, and now the errors have seemed to
simmer down and he can grab some of those deals.
Amazon says Prime Day sales in the US are bigger
than ever evenwithstanding all the problems in the first ten hours,
(00:54):
Prime Day sales.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Grew faster than last year.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
As for those items discounted, as you might imagine, Amazon
is really pushing its own brands.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Those have the biggest cuts.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Electronics are popular, So here are some of my picks
Amazon Cloudcam. That's just sixty dollars down from one hundred
and twenty dollars. So if you need a security camera
for your house, that's a really fantastic deal. The Ring
Video Doorbell two is one hundred forty dollars normally that's
one hundred and ninety nine dollars, and that's a great
way to add that video doorbell everyone is getting to
their front door. The Amazon Fire TV Cube is just
(01:26):
ninety dollars, which is thirty dollars off. You can nab
a fifty inch Toshiba four K fireTV for just two
hundred and eighty nine dollars. That's right, a fifty inch
TV for under three hundred bucks. That's a pretty good one.
And if you have your eyes on a kindle, which
I think is the best digital way to read a book,
I go back and forth between digital and regular old
paperback and hardcover. But those kindles are all on sale,
(01:51):
and there is one easy way to save an extra
five dollars on selected Prime Day deals. If you open
up the Amazon app on your phone and you try
out a new feature, you'll get a little coupon code
for five dollars off one of the selected Amazon deals.
It's not anything, but there are some things on there
that you might be interested in. So to get it,
you have to open up the app and try one
of those new features. You can try the ar view,
(02:13):
which is augmented reality view. You basically aim your camera
at something in your house, like a table, and you
can put a product from Amazon right on that table
and see it in sort of virtual augmented reality. You
can use the product search, you can use the barcode
scanner or the package x ray. All of these features
will activate a five dollars off a Prime Day deal
(02:33):
purchased through the app, and you can do this every
six hours, so I check this and some of the
deals you know, they basically give you the coupon and
then they give you a bunch of items that you
can use the coupon on. So it may not match up.
You may not want to buy any of those items,
but at least it's kind of fun to try the
new feature out and see if the discount works for.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Something you want.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You can also ask Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?
And if you spend ten dollars at Whole Foods today,
you'll still get ten dollars towards your Prime Day purchase.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Is running out on that one, so you have to
act fast.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And if you've never tried Amazon Prime now, this is
one of my favorite ways to order things really fast.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They deliver things to your house in a nunder two hours.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You can place your first order on Prime Day today
and you'll get ten dollars off a future order. This
is not available on all locations, but you have to
try it out.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Today's also a great day to.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Buy my book on the Kindle, which is one hundred
and one Handy.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Tech Tips for the iPhone.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Basically, if you purchase it today, that will activate a
discount good for thirty percent off your next Kindle book.
So keep in mind you only have until July thirty
first to buy your next book with the discount.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's not a.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Very long runway, but it's still pretty good. If you
buy my book and then you buy a second Kindle
book in.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
The future and the next week or two, so you
get thirty percent off that one.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Also one deal that I've taken advantage of three months
of Audible for just five dollars a month. That's a
really fantastic deal. It did work for me I've already
downloaded my first book. And if you're wondering, well, wait
a second, I'm already an audible customer.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I've been a cut in the past.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It did work for me, and I've been an audible
customer in the past, so that one seems to work
for new and existing customers.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
There you have at Amazon Prime Day twenty eighteen off.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
To a rough start, but still a very good day
to find great deals on Amazon, especially if you're buying
stuff that you actually need. Keep in mind, if you're
listening to this after midnight Pacific on July seventeenth, well
you'll just have to wait until next.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Year for more deals. And one tidbit for your Jeopardy audition.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Amazon started on July fifth, nineteen ninety four, which might
explain why Prime Day is in July.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Thanks so much for listening. I'm Rich Tomurro links to.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Everything I talk about here on my website, richontech dot tv.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I'll talk to you real soon.
Amazon Prime Day off to a rough start. What's going on?
I'm rich damiro. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Amazon's yearly sale called Prime Day is happening now, but
it did get off to kind of a rough start Monday.
Many users couldn't access the deals they wanted because the
site had many problems and error messages. Those error messages
featured cute photos of dogs, which are actually Amazon employees pooches,
But as cute as they were, they were still frustrating
to see for the millions of shoppers looking for major
(00:33):
discount myself included. I basically gave up on the website
and said, well, I guess I'll figure this out tomorrow.
Amazon acknowledged the issues about two hours into Prime Day
with a tweet, and now the errors have seemed to
simmer down and he can grab some of those deals.
Amazon says Prime Day sales in the US are bigger
than ever evenwithstanding all the problems in the first ten hours,
(00:54):
Prime Day sales.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Grew faster than last year.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
As for those items discounted, as you might imagine, Amazon
is really pushing its own brands.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Those have the biggest cuts.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Electronics are popular, So here are some of my picks
Amazon Cloudcam. That's just sixty dollars down from one hundred
and twenty dollars. So if you need a security camera
for your house, that's a really fantastic deal. The Ring
Video Doorbell two is one hundred forty dollars normally that's
one hundred and ninety nine dollars, and that's a great
way to add that video doorbell everyone is getting to
their front door. The Amazon Fire TV Cube is just
(01:26):
ninety dollars, which is thirty dollars off. You can nab
a fifty inch Toshiba four K fireTV for just two
hundred and eighty nine dollars. That's right, a fifty inch
TV for under three hundred bucks. That's a pretty good one.
And if you have your eyes on a kindle, which
I think is the best digital way to read a book,
I go back and forth between digital and regular old
paperback and hardcover. But those kindles are all on sale,
(01:51):
and there is one easy way to save an extra
five dollars on selected Prime Day deals. If you open
up the Amazon app on your phone and you try
out a new feature, you'll get a little coupon code
for five dollars off one of the selected Amazon deals.
It's not anything, but there are some things on there
that you might be interested in. So to get it,
you have to open up the app and try one
of those new features. You can try the ar view,
(02:13):
which is augmented reality view. You basically aim your camera
at something in your house, like a table, and you
can put a product from Amazon right on that table
and see it in sort of virtual augmented reality. You
can use the product search, you can use the barcode
scanner or the package x ray. All of these features
will activate a five dollars off a Prime Day deal
(02:33):
purchased through the app, and you can do this every
six hours, so I check this and some of the
deals you know, they basically give you the coupon and
then they give you a bunch of items that you
can use the coupon on. So it may not match up.
You may not want to buy any of those items,
but at least it's kind of fun to try the
new feature out and see if the discount works for.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Something you want.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You can also ask Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?
And if you spend ten dollars at Whole Foods today,
you'll still get ten dollars towards your Prime Day purchase.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Is running out on that one, so you have to
act fast.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And if you've never tried Amazon Prime now, this is
one of my favorite ways to order things really fast.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They deliver things to your house in a nunder two hours.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You can place your first order on Prime Day today
and you'll get ten dollars off a future order. This
is not available on all locations, but you have to
try it out.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Today's also a great day to.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Buy my book on the Kindle, which is one hundred
and one Handy.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Tech Tips for the iPhone.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Basically, if you purchase it today, that will activate a
discount good for thirty percent off your next Kindle book.
So keep in mind you only have until July thirty
first to buy your next book with the discount.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's not a.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Very long runway, but it's still pretty good. If you
buy my book and then you buy a second Kindle
book in.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
The future and the next week or two, so you
get thirty percent off that one.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Also one deal that I've taken advantage of three months
of Audible for just five dollars a month. That's a
really fantastic deal. It did work for me I've already
downloaded my first book. And if you're wondering, well, wait
a second, I'm already an audible customer.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I've been a cut in the past.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It did work for me, and I've been an audible
customer in the past, so that one seems to work
for new and existing customers.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
There you have at Amazon Prime Day twenty eighteen off.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
To a rough start, but still a very good day
to find great deals on Amazon, especially if you're buying
stuff that you actually need. Keep in mind, if you're
listening to this after midnight Pacific on July seventeenth, well
you'll just have to wait until next.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Year for more deals. And one tidbit for your Jeopardy audition.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Amazon started on July fifth, nineteen ninety four, which might
explain why Prime Day is in July.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Thanks so much for listening. I'm Rich Tomurro links to.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Everything I talk about here on my website, richontech dot tv.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I'll talk to you real soon.
Host
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