OPINION : As another Prime Day gross revenue event hurtles by I ca n’t help but experience a petty disappointed with the deals that were on go . That ’s not to say the event was n’t a big winner in ecumenical .
A jam release from Amazon articulate that “ over the grade of the two - day shopping upshot , Prime phallus purchased more than 375 million items worldwide and saved more than $ 2.5 billion on gazillion of passel across the Amazon computer storage , helping make it the big Prime Day event ever . ”
And that is a lot of money keep open , though I do wonder justhow muchcustomers saved . With their deals , Amazon and other retailer show how much you ’re saving off the RRP – which is fair enough – but most mathematical product , in especial older 1 , were n’t or have n’t retailed at that cost in geezerhood .
In many cases you could have bought that product for the same price a twain of weeks ago – perhaps even a few months ago . Some products are still at the same priceafterPrime twenty-four hours .
The deals were specially ‘ balmy ’ if you were attend to better / upgrade your AV kit , mainly because most of the big brands seemed to have excused themselves from the gross revenue frenzy .
The the likes of of Q Acoustics had US only deals , while Cambridge Audio , KEF , or Bang & Olufsen either did n’t seem to be offer any simplification or had relatively few . Astell & Kern and Marshall had a few deals , but you could have bought these products before Prime Day at the same price in many cases .
The likesof Sonosand Denon wireless speakers were conspicuous by their absence seizure , while it all seemed to be very quiet on the projector , soundbar , and surround audio systems front .
If you were going to purchase something during Prime Day , most of the deals concentrated on smartphones and headphones with a selection of TVs make in . But even with tv set , savings on 2023 models were few other than a few young sets from Hisense .
Perhaps it ’s a case of maker not want to ignore their products too betimes in the year or by too much , but as far as Ab kit is come to Prime Day 2023 feels like it for the most part passed it by .
For me , I was looking to bribe some 4 K Blu - electron beam but did n’t grease one’s palms any in the end . The ones I wanted were uncommitted in other sales promotions ( like the Arrow Summer Sale currently fit on ) , others were n’t big enough to get my interest or were discs I already had .
That feeling of déjà vu permeated my Prime Day experience . It was the common suspect – flaming television receiver streamers , Android smartphones , Echo speaker – that got the attention , and it ’s likely to be the same when Black Friday 2023 rolls around .
I can see why manufacturer of howdy - fi and rest home film kit would n’t want to brush off outfit . You do n’t need to devalue products by always reducing the Mary Leontyne Price , condition people to buy only when savings are had . And if they ’re selling well anyway why trouble reducing the cost ?
Perhaps the principal problem is not the scarcity of deals but how AV is gift in cosmopolitan to the public . Go to theAudio & Hi - Fi system pageon Amazon and the good sellers are Amazon Fire TV Sticks and Echo loudspeaker . That ’s a perceptual experience that involve to exchange .
