First offers launched – Amazon Prime Day 2024 could surpass all previous promotions

Prime Day celebrates its tenth anniversary

The Prime Day is probably Amazon’s most important and well-known shopping event after Black Friday – at least that was true about a year ago. Amazon Prime Day 2023 presented everything that has existed before in the shadows: “The first day of Prime Day was the biggest sales day in Amazon's history, and Prime members saved more this year than at any other Prime Day event“, said Doug Herrington, CEO of Amazon Stores in a press release dated July 13, 2023.

This year the
Amazon Prime Day is taking place for the tenth time (the “Prime Deal Days” in October are not included here) – and at the same time the online giant is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Incidentally, the shopping event was launched on July 15, 2015 to mark Amazon's 20th birthday and has since become a fixture for bargain hunters in over 20 countries. The bar is therefore set particularly high for 2024. This year, hundreds of thousands of items are expected to take part – divided into daily offers and very limited flash deals that can sell out in just a few minutes or even seconds.

When does Amazon Prime Day 2024 start?

After weeks of rumors and speculation, Amazon has announced the date for the Prime Day 2024 officially announced: On 16 and 17 July 2024 The shipping giant is once again under a state of emergency for 48 hours. This time even more than ever, since – as already mentioned – it is the ten-year anniversary is about.

The date is not really surprising: Since the shopping event traditionally Mid-July on a Tuesday and Wednesday This year, only the two days mentioned were possible – the semi-final of the 2024 European Football Championship will take place a week earlier, while a later date would clash with the summer holidays of many customers and would therefore also result in a loss of sales.

Strictly speaking, it should be called “Prime Days” (plural), since the campaign since 2019 over two whole days or 48 hours. In previous years it lasted 36 hours (2018), 30 hours (2017) or actually only 24 hours (2016 and 2015). As always, the discount is only available with active Prime subscription. The
30-day free trial.

Some offers are already active

To celebrate the anniversary, Amazon Hundreds of thousands of offers exclusively for Prime members announced. In addition to Discounts or. Discounts This also includes special Gifts in the form of Free access to services that are normally subject to payment.

Speaking of free access: If you are not yet a Prime member, you can test the service with all its benefits for 30 days free of charge – this also gives you access to all Prime Day offers.

Prime members already benefit from this:

• Amazon Music Unlimited: Anyone who has not yet used the streaming service can now
  Try it free for five months. The repertoire includes more than 100 million songs and podcasts – completely ad-free. Returnees receive a 50 percent discount on the first three months.
• Kindle Unlimited: Eligible Prime members will receive
  three months of free access to millions of eBooks, popular eMagazine subscriptions and thousands of audiobooks. The offer is valid until including 17 July 2024.
• Free video games: Prime Gaming offers until 16 July 2024 in total 15 PC games for free – including “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge”, “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2” and “Hitman Absolution”.
• AmazonFresh: From 1 to 17 July 2024 Prime members can Fresh qualified areas
  Save up to 20 percent on groceries. New customers get their first purchase delivered free of charge and receive additional 15 Euro discount from 60 Euro minimum order value.
• Food: There are
  at Amazon from 1 to 17 July 2024 discount. Here the savings are even 25 percent – provided that your address is in the delivery area (greater Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Mühlheim, Würzburg/Giessen, Kassel, Fulda, Fürth and southern Hesse).

Many customers are particularly interested in Amazon’s own products, which are among the bestsellers every year. The online giant often grants Discounts of over 50 percent on its Alexa and smart home devices such as Echo speakers, Fire tablets, Fire TV Sticks or surveillance technology from Blink and Ring.

Below we have a small overview of the Offers from last year Whether the prices for Amazon Prime Day 2024 It remains to be seen whether the prices will be reduced just as much or whether the discounts will actually be even higher.

• Fire TV Stick 4K for 34.99 euros instead of 69.99 euros (currently not available)
• Echo Pop for 17.99 euros instead of 54.99 euros
• Kindle Paperwhite for 124.99 euros instead of 149.99 euros
• Fire Max 11 Tablet for 189.99 euros instead of 269.99 euros
• Echo Show 5 (3rd Generation) for 54.99 euros instead of 109.99 euros
• Eero 6+ Wi-Fi 6 router for 94.99 euros instead of 149.99 euros
• Blink Outdoor 2-Cam for 89.99 euros instead of 179.99 euros
• Echo Auto (2nd Generation) for 34.99 euros instead of 69.99 euros
• Echo Dot (5th generation, 2022) for 21.99 euros instead of 64.99 euros

Due to the popularity of Amazon's own brands, our CHIP colleagues have created a separate article for them in which you will be kept up to date on corresponding offers.

Over

Amazon Returns customers can
used items also
New goods with packaging damage at reduced prices. Some of the products are available
20 percent cheaper until July 15, 2024However, it is quite possible that the extra discount will be increased to 30 percent as part of the Prime Day event – although the product selection varies each time.

More details about Return purchase campaignwhich many still know under the old name “Warehouse Deals“ you may be familiar with, you can find in our corresponding news item.

To get the best deals, here's what you should do before the next Prime Day:

• Prime Membership: Do you have the necessary
  Prime membership? That’s also possible still short term and with the 30-day trial subscription.
• Check payment details: Check whether the payment methods stored on your account are up to date – i.e. credit card and account details. If you want to set a limit for yourself, you can also add
  Add credit (any amount between 0.15 and 5,000 euros).
• Manage delivery addresses: You can also check the delivery addresses and adjust them if necessary to complete your purchases as quickly as possible.
• Fill lists: Now is the time to consider possible purchases and to tailor them to your
  wish list. This way you can see immediately if and when the products are reduced.
• Compare prices: To find real bargains, you should know the prices of other retailers. You can compare them, for example, via our partner portal
  BestCheck.
• Get the app: Install the Amazon app – then you can find bargains on the go with just a few taps of your finger.

This is what Prime membership offers:

• free Premium shipping
• 30 minutes early access on all limited-time offers
• Amazon Fresh and Prime Now: Grocery deliveries to your doorstep
• Access to films and series in Amazon Prime Video
• free Photo cloud storage
• more than 2 million songs to stream
• monthly Free games in conjunction with Prime Gaming
• selected Books and magazines

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