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Amazon Prime Day announced for July 15-16
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No lol. Honestly I wouldn't have even wasted my time with that, its a very specialized lens and the potential resell market for it is very small. Whoever ordered one of those is gonna have a hard time reselling it unless they sell it for like 50% of retail or some crazy shit.
are you sure they weren't hold charges?
every damn time there's a glitched deal people freak out over charges disappearing, because most stores pre-charge then actually charge you when it ships, and i have to explain it every time
When I bought the Sennheiser HD 599, it has an option to ship in an Amazon box. Of course I would choose that since I don't want it exposed.
Believe me, while it may seem like you would only be sticking it to a faceless Amazon, there are people behind the scenes getting raked over the coals for this slip up.
There's usually a message under the item on the last page of checkout that says "Item will be shipped in packaging that reveals the contents. Select this option to ship in Amazon packaging to hide the content" or something like that, with a checkbox you can tick to enable it (for free). It's really small text and easy to miss.
I order a vinyl record and they just slapped a sticker on the record sleeve. It came all bent and warped.
I have seen this but it is definitely not the case for records and things that are fragile. That message usually pops up for things that are already in a really secure box like tv's, etc. that are already filled with styrofoam.
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I've been buying shit on amazon for years and have never seen this. Game changer.
Didn't work for me
Cost of doing business
It's not Amazon's fault you didn't read the page before clicking through...
It really should be more prominent. They'll pop up modal windows to try and up sell me a ton of things. Might as well try and make that stand out more than just some text that is easy to miss. It especially is going to be easy to miss when you're trying to get something before it sells out on sale. And frankly, it's irresponsible to do in the first place.
You are overselling this.
It is plenty prominent and easy to see.
Cutting into a web page to make it look prominent is deceptive. It is much more obscure when you look at the full page a product can have with a ton of details all over the page.
I'm not saying they aren't telling users. I'm saying it is a detail that is more deserving of more prominent communication. And it's something that simply should not be done on a $200+ product. People assume the product will be covered and aren't likely going to scan every line to ensure they aren't going to hide it.
Ordered a video card, monitor and DisplayPort cable at the same time Monday afternoon. The monitor's shipped, the rest are in limbo.
received my two fireTV sticks today 1080 and 4k, the 4k is definetly better then the 1080, but both destroy my gen 2 and gen 1 firesticks. This upgrade costed me like $15 out of pocket. with 1 trade-in and 1 selling one ebay for $20.
My echo show 5 with dot trade in, wont come until next Tuesday. for the trade in, I'll will be sending in a gen 3 dot instead of gen 2, "hope" they wont mind. If they send it back, I'll just ebay it.
also ordered AA batteries and they sent me AAA, they issues a refund and told me keep the batteries. Nice.
None of my big stuff I wanted, went on sale for cheap, but I upgraded Alexa in my house for cheap and got free batteries. so I'm happy.
edit: plus free 3 months to amazon's kindle books(still available to 31st)
My echo show 5 with dot trade in, wont come until next Tuesday. for the trade in, I'll will be sending in a gen 3 dot instead of gen 2, "hope" they wont mind. If they send it back, I'll just ebay it.
also ordered AA batteries and they sent me AAA, they issues a refund and told me keep the batteries. Nice.
None of my big stuff I wanted, went on sale for cheap, but I upgraded Alexa in my house for cheap and got free batteries. so I'm happy.
edit: plus free 3 months to amazon's kindle books(still available to 31st)
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I ordered a Ring Video Doorbell 2 on Monday and it arrived Tuesday afternoon. Installed it when I got home from work and have been playing with it for the past day or so. I'm really impressed with it. Works well, seems speedy enough (thankfully my router is close to my front door) and the motion notifications are great. I used the free Echo Dot as a chime, which is sitting in my kitchen. Pretty happy with it so far.
Same lol, I think for the rest of the year I'll remember how I missed the fuck out of this. I don't think I'll forget this regret.
Same thing happened to me. Got all my stuff except an out of stock body.
Congrats! I was planning on buying a RX1R II sometime before my baby is due later this year. I'm in disbelief. Like everybody else I figured they would cancel the orders. Funny thing is I stayed up especially to see if there would be any crazy deals like the stacking coupon deal from target last prime day. Little did I know lol
Yup, I just wanted to see if they'd have a sell on the Mortal Kombat 11 dlc. Truly serendipitous.
I "hope" you enjoy being charged the $27.00 you received in promotional credit, because that's exactly what they'll do.
The Gen 3 Echo Dot isn't eligible for trade-in at all. And lol if you think they can't tell the difference.
Yeeup lol. I can't imagine this happening on black Friday. But goddamn it I will put all my alarms on to be ready.
Oh yeah true, makes it even more hurtful fucking damn it lol
50% of that is 6k. DIdn't the price glitch have it at 98 dollars?
yes, but what I was saying is that someone is going to have a hard time trying to find someone to sell that thing to. Id rather just order a bunch of stuff that will be easier to move if i were a flipper. You'd probably have to slash the price to like 6k and even then you might have a hard time finding someone willing to drop that kind of money on it.
one sale and you make a 5900 dollar profit even at 50%. If you order a ton of those other cameras, you have to sell a lot of them to reach that number of profit, that will also include shipping fees, plus the entry, which with the 5900 dollar profit it's a 90 dollar entry, versus the profit on multiple cameras, which is multiples of the 90 dollar entry.
Trying to suppress hope my back-ordered to early August a7 III will actually go through. Didn't get any orders in for things that were still in stock (should have looked at the SlickDeals thread more closely..).
Don't understand why they haven't cancelled anything yet giving how much expensive stuff is still going out daily, but it's got to come at some point, no? Or they are really just going to nearly give away their entire camera inventory for some unfathomable reason.
That aside, basically just got the good bundle/trade in deals on Amazon stuff.
Don't understand why they haven't cancelled anything yet giving how much expensive stuff is still going out daily, but it's got to come at some point, no? Or they are really just going to nearly give away their entire camera inventory for some unfathomable reason.
That aside, basically just got the good bundle/trade in deals on Amazon stuff.
Yeah, but many people actually want those cheaper a6500s and a7rii and a7iii tho.
i think it would be WAY easier to sell, say, 4 Sony A7iiis for a total of 7 grand than to try and sell just one of those giant Canon astro L lenses for 6k.
There's simply far, far more demand for those.
Thanks! I had my wife pick the cameras up at the ups store and she texted me back saying the UPS lady said that "the source flagged the packages" and they would not let her take them home. My heart sank when I read the text. Luckily she was just messing with me lolCongrats on stuff
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If you were flipping a more generalized lense like a 24-70 would move way faster than the 800mm one. Those mirrorless cameras are pretty much the biggest thing for consumer and hobbyists at the moment so they're a quick flip too.
I really wish I'd have checked this thread. I'd have gotten some 599s. Fuck.
I get that but I'm saying you can flip the other one flip at 50% off and it's 6000 dollar profit, vs. loading up on the other cameras. I'm just saying one sale and that's it at a staggering 50% off