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Did anyone actually get any good deals from Amazon Prime Day?

19 points by Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 ↗ HN
After weeks of hyping today as "bigger than black Friday", Amazon seems to have dropped the ball in a major way. Where are the deals on items you actually want to purchase? Did anyone find anything good?

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monroepe
I haven't found anything I wanted. I mean there are great deals, but nothing I am interested in. To be fair I am only really interested in buying cheap books.
a3n
Try abebooks.com. I've bought quite a lot of cheap books there, both text books (often of the "don't sell anywhere but India" variety), and used fiction that I can't find anywhere.

They're now an Amazon property, but they're still cheap and convenient.

monroepe
Sweet thanks for the heads up. I love buying books. I also love reading, so they don't go to waste.
danso
What do people think about the 35% off of Crucial SSDs? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KFAGCUM

I haven't really shopped for SSDs before but I need to upgrade my 4 year old MBP. It looks to be about $20 cheaper than what's on Newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...

Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0
I saw that deal, but I'm wary of buying crucial ssds as every single one I've bought has failed on me within 18 months. As far as SSDs go, I thought the advice was to stick with Intel: is this still true?
codeonfire
I stopped using crucial SSD's after I had several with the 5200 hour firmware bug. Perhaps you were experiencing the same issue? I was able to upgrade the firmware but now go with Intel SSDs.
jcr
I've used older 256GB crucial SSD's, and they're fast, but that laptop eventually developed stability problems. After I stopped using that laptop, I found info on the TRIM problems seen in some SSD's. This is a long but excellent article from Adam Surak at Algolia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723066

I'm not sure if the "trim list" link in the article (libdata-core.c) is current or not, but it's worth reading:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e64f638483a21105c7ce3...

Unfortunately, the product name "CT512MX100SSD1" in your Amazon may not match what the device actually reports to the OS.

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mataug
Haha, Amazon is trying its hand at what flipkart does often in India.
taurath
I didn't see anything that I don't see on woot or other deal sites on a daily basis. When I last looked one of the "front page" items on the lightning deals was a lanyard, which I think says a lot.
shepardrtc
Amazon hasn't dropped the ball at all. In fact, this has been a huge success for them. This was entirely a marketing ploy, and now everyone is talking about it.
Psyonic
I disagree. They lost a lot of credibility here.
medmunds
The "lightning deals" seem to be either uninteresting, or already 100% claimed. (Though the day's not over, and they do seem to be adding new items periodically.) Has anyone built an app to watch upcoming lightning deals and snap them up at superhuman speed?

BTW, there's also a section of 30%-off items—mostly clothes and luggage—that doesn't seem to have the "lightning" quantity limits. http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=pin15_us_gw_d_p3_ld_softlines?_e...

w0uld
I picked up a Fire TV Stick at $24 USD. I considered it a good deal. But the good deals seem to be selling out in a matter of minutes.
jordsmi
I got some protein powder. Wasn't any cheaper but they gave out a $25 gift card
onedev
Congrats on the gains!
mcintyre1994
I sent my mum some more of the pimms I bought for full price a few weeks ago for her birthday. I was quite disappointed by the sale..

I probably would have grabbed a paperwhite if they'd reduced it with the cheap kindle.

gaspoweredcat
not a thing, i missed out on the one g watch urbane they had in and then found it cheaper elsewhere anyway other than that there werent that many great deals to be had
gadders
I had a look and it looked pretty rubbish on the UK site. Nothing I really wanted, even on the hot deals that quickly sold out.
tmaly
I picked up a kindle fire hd 7" tablet for my daughter. I let her have a little time watching learning videos on youtube but using a macbook pro for it is overkill
georgerobinson
I picked up a pair of Bose SoundTrue On Ear headphones. I'd been stalking them for a while but they've been priced at £129.95 for months. I ordered them yesterday for little over £70. Very happy!
kendallpark
Mid-tier gaming headset, 60% off.

Yeah, they really dropped the ball on this.