Today for Prime Day, which starts at 9 p.m. ET, the Echo will be $89.99.
Apart from all the deals mentioned above, Amazon India is having many other interesting ones which are set to go live at 6 PM today on the e-commerce portal.
The traditional grocery retailers must be anxious this time because of the Amazon Prime Day to introduce to the company’s newest grocery offerings with more than 85 million Prime members, said by Mikhailov. Though Amazon does not share specific sales figures, it did say that “customer orders surpassed Prime Day 2015 by more than 60% worldwide and more than 50% in the U.S”. Also, it will be exclusively open for Amazon Prime members and the annual membership charge is Rs 499. Prime Day’s timing is flawless and its potential is limitless; not just for Amazon Prime members, but also for eBay and the many other sites who climb aboard the Prime-Time bandwagon. Amazon is extending its annual Prime Day promotion to 30 hours this year.
Prime Day has also become a great day to buy appliances, but not on Amazon. The first type, event-long offers, will include price cuts on Amazon’s products and services.
Smartphone offers on Amazon India Prime day
Other price checks revealed Amazon compared its current price on items to their peak price previous year. At the time of this writing, Google has sold more than 3,600 of the bundles, with the listing receiving over 1,070 views every hour.
Amazon has some special offers on smartphones and also there are few exclusive launches too here is a look at all the smartphone offers available. Go to the app’s settings menu, click notifications and toggle alerts on for “Your Watched and Waitlisted Deals”.
A word of caution for any deal seekers, experts say not every discount posted will be a steal.
Prime Day is 30 hours of deals. Beyond that, past studies have said the vast majority of Prime members don’t even bother to compare prices at other retailers before pulling a trigger on a product. For buyers looking for wearable technology, Amazon is offering minimum 40 per cent discount on Fitbit fitness trackers.