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Belt your bank accounts and steal your nerves folks: Amazon’s Prime Day 2021 could be just a few weeks away.

Rumor has it that the massive retailer’s annual site-wide sale is set to happen sometime in June this year, a month earlier than years before, but we don’t know the exact dates yet. Bloomberg reports Prime Day 2021 will take place from Monday, June 21st to Tuesday, June 22nd. However, it is also possible that Amazon will announce a completely different schedule in the coming days.

When these dates become known, you will have a little over three weeks to formulate your Prime Day schedule.

What will be for sale on Prime Day 2021?

Prime Day often includes sales on TVs, tablets, laptops, home appliances, exercise equipment, pet supplies. In all honesty, almost every item sold on Amazon can be discounted during the promotion. We just won’t know what the deals actually are until Prime Day begins.

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However, it is expected that many first-party Amazon products will receive discounts, including:

  • Amazon Echo Speakers, Echo Car Accessories, and Echo Smart Displays
  • AmazonBasics products such as kitchen appliances, furniture, and housewares
  • Blink surveillance cameras
  • Eero WiFi router
  • Fire TV streaming devices
  • Kindle e-readers and Fire tablets
  • Ring cameras and home security devices

It is possible that Amazon’s products are available at the lowest prices ever – or at least the lowest since last Prime Day. If you add any of the items you are considering to your Amazon wish list, you will be notified when they are available for sale. But be careful – you should always make sure that you are actually getting a deal before buying anything on Prime Day.

How to Know If a Prime Day Sale is Good Deal

The Amazon Prime Day landing page can be overwhelming, and many discounted items don’t show up on the home page, making it difficult to keep track of ongoing deals. Luckily you can Sign up for deal notifications on the Amazon mobile app and further Desktop in your Amazon account settings.

Push notifications can help you hit a deal before it expires. However, don’t let the excitement fool you into making unnecessary purchases. Amazon will use countdown timers and other strategies That pressure to buy items quickly, add extra products to your cart, or hit a specific spend threshold to unlock bonuses, but none of them are worth pursuing if it means buying things you actually don’t need . We also strongly recommend you Withhold the impulse to buy technical items during Prime Day without doing research beforehand, especially if you don’t recognize the brand.

Then there are the sneaky strategies some companies use during Prime Day to trick you into thinking a product is for sale when it is really not for sale. Fortunately, Chrome and Edge have built-in price tracking so you can judge whether a business is legitimate or just marketing Lots of third-party extensions that are used to review Prime Day deals and say whether it is worth buying a discounted item.

[CNET]