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Old 07-16-2018, 05:06 PM   #41
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I'm having the same problem about 50% of the time. It isn't bothering me, since I haven't seen anything yet that interests me even slightly. Still, like the rest of America, I just can't look away. There's always the hope that somewhere on that smoking wreck of a website, lies an amazing deal on the one unknown item that I don't yet know that I want.

It's kind of amazing to see their website falter since normally it is pretty rock solid (for me, anyway).

I waiting to see what Amazon will do to make things right with the shoppers besides the standard "This is on us and we apologize" line .
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Old 07-16-2018, 05:14 PM   #42
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I'm having the same problem about 50% of the time. It isn't bothering me, since I haven't seen anything yet that interests me even slightly. Still, like the rest of America, I just can't look away. There's always the hope that somewhere on that smoking wreck of a website, lies an amazing deal on the one unknown item that I don't yet know that I want.

It's kind of amazing to see their website falter since normally it is pretty rock solid (for me, anyway).
No Lexus RX SUV on Prime Day?
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I bought a kindle book .It comes with a 70 percent credit on my next book .
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I waiting to see what Amazon will do to make things right with the shoppers besides the standard "This is on us and we apologize" line .
I hadn't thought of that. Wonder what they will come up with?
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No Lexus RX SUV on Prime Day?
Who knows, with all the dog pictures? But I don't think they have any.
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I bought a kindle book .It comes with a 70 percent credit on my next book .
Good deal!
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Old 07-16-2018, 05:44 PM   #47
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I’ve had them for about 4 years. I used to use them a lot more when I was working, with frequent international travel. I haven’t used them as much since I retired, but no issues so far. Great sound and very good noise reduction on planes.
Thanks, I'm still thinking about them.
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Old 07-16-2018, 06:18 PM   #49
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I waiting to see what Amazon will do to make things right with the shoppers besides the standard "This is on us and we apologize" line .
The deals are generally "while supplies last", so supplies will just last a little longer. I'm not sure there's anything to make up for in this case.
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Lotta dogs on amazon, it's a dog friendly place!
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Cobra - I use Fire TV devices, along with sound bars and A/V receivers. I control everything (including the Fire TV) with a single Logitech Harmony hub-based remote. Works well and eliminates juggling remotes. I think I saw the Harmony remote on sale today at Amazon.
Yeah, I've looked into that previously. But DW and I really like the feel and simplicity of the Fire TV remote. We bought a sideclick for it to control the AVR and power-down the TV, but that sort-of compromised the simplicity of the design. But as I said, we've been increasingly using the Echo for voice control of the Fire TV. So my goal with the Cube is to possibly eliminate the use of a remote altogether and also increase the number of devices I can control by voice.
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Some of those deals are going very quickly, so act fast if you want them! Maybe that's a good thing, because mostly it's stuff you probably don't really need.

For example, I was looking at the Oontz Angle 3 Ultra. The deal went active at 8:15. I actually set an alarm to make sure I looked at this, which I did at 8:16. It was 27% claimed. I put one in my cart, which gave me 15 minutes to check out. So I got mine. Then I read about how pairing them can give you really good sound, so I thought seriously about a second one. No dice. 10-15 minutes later, I think it was, the deal was gone.
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Found a workaround, if you go to smile.amazon.com it seems to work (this is their landing page for defining a charity of your choice to which a portion of your purchases will be sent).
Everybody should use smile.amazon.com automatically. Even if you don't like charity just pick a charity. It doesn't cost anything and the charities get a few pennies and those pennies add up!
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Old 07-16-2018, 07:12 PM   #54
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Everybody should use smile.amazon.com automatically. Even if you don't like charity just pick a charity. It doesn't cost anything and the charities get a few pennies and those pennies add up!
I keep forgetting to go through smile (though I did remember today). Your charity only gets the benefit if you go through that portal, or does it work anyway if you just use www. ?
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I keep forgetting to go through smile (though I did remember today). Your charity only gets the benefit if you go through that portal, or does it work anyway if you just use www. ?
I believe you have to go to smile for charities to get the credit. Thus no credit when using the app I think.
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I looked and didn't see anything I needed or want. I am old enough to know that today's tech is tomorrow's trash.
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8" Fire tablet died last week so I got another today for less than $50.
Not a great tablet, but good for the price.
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I had been waiting for today to buy an Echo and Echo Plus. We had bought some Echo Shows recently as we moved into our new house. But, I had 2 rooms I wanted to put in an Echo and Echo Plus. You should never pay retail for any Alexa device. Usually Amazon rotates around the sales, though. As we got closer to Prime Day I decided to wait to buy the Echo and Echo Plus. That paid off was the Echo was $30 off and the Plus was $50 off. I also went to the Whole Foods yesterday and spent $10 to get a $10 credit to use on prime day (yes, they were things we would have bought anyway).

The only thing I bought that was unplanned was an Egg Cooker. I had seen it a few months ago and almost bought it then. But, it was when we were getting ready to move so I didn't want to buy anything knew. Now that we had moved and it was on sale it was a good time to go ahead and get it.

Oh - I bought a Kindle book and got 30% of that off on a second book. Again, both books I would buy anyway.

I didn't do the 75% one as I didn't really want to read any of the books.
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