Prime Day 2022: How to Bag the Best Deals and How to Avoid Mistakes

How to Win Amazon’s Early Access Sale Event

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It’s happening again! Sort of… While it isn’t technically Prime Day 2.0, Amazon is hosting a second, massive, two-day savings event, this time to be called the Early Access Sale, and it promises to be a great way to get your holiday shopping done early, with “hundreds of thousands” of deals, from big-ticket items like televisions and kitchen appliances to smaller staples like shoes, socks and clothing. We’ve already seen some big brand names teased (Samsung, KitchenAid, adidas, LEGO, Peloton, to name just a few), and we expect to find out more as we get closer to the October 11th and 12th launch.

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All these deals can get overwhelming, fast, and finding the few items you want in a sea of sales can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. To help you out, we’ve put together some handy tips and tricks to ensure you walk away with the items you want at the best possible prices.

Take Advantage of Amazon’s Tracking Services

Amazon’s interface is both intuitive and extremely useful, and learning to take advantage of their lesser-known features can help you find the lowest prices every time you shop. These are some of the most important to familiarize yourself with:

Top 100 List: For the first time ever, Amazon is unveiling a Top 100 list to track the most popular, best-selling and most gift-worthy sale items. You’ll want to keep an eye on this at all times, as new deals are added and old deals expire or sell out frequently.
Optimize Your Wish List: Too few Amazon users take advantage of the Wish List, but it’s a great way to track your desired products at a glance. If you haven’t updated yours in years, spend a few minutes before October 11th deleting older items and adding new ones, and when the Early Access Sale hits, you’ll have one streamlined place to monitor all your most desired products.
Use Amazon’s Alexa Digital Assistant: Amazon has managed to stealthily build one of the most capable digital assistants around, and one of Alexa’s best tricks is saving you money. She can monitor all the items in your Wish List, Shopping Cart and “Saved for Later” list, and alert you when those items go on sale. If you happen to have an Amazon Echo smart speaker, she can either use the color-changing rings or pop-up alerts to let you know of a deal up to 24 hours before it goes live on the site itself, preparing you to make the buy. And best of all, if you give Alexa permission, she can even buy items for you, all with a simple voice command.
Enable Push Notifications: If you have the Amazon app, navigate to the settings section and enable push notifications to receive an alert any time an item in your Wish List or among your recently viewed items goes on sale.

Use Our Deal Curation Service

It can be very tedious to search through the thousands of Prime Day deals, looking for the one big item you want. In fact, it can often feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. So don’t bother – we’ll be doing the hard work for you, constantly updating our website with the day’s best deals as they come online.

You’ll even be able to search through specific categories – Tech, Fitness, Home, Fashion and Grooming – so even if you’re searching for something a bit obscure (like, say, a smart bulb), you’ll know exactly where to look.

Don’t Restrict Yourself to Just One Order

If you’re like most people, you probably load up your Amazon cart until you’ve got everything you need before you buy, and under normal circumstances, we’d agree that that’s the way to go go – but with Amazon Prime’s free shipping perk, and because the best Prime Day deals are often spaced apart, you should drop the one-order mentality temporarily, and instead get used to checking out multiple times per day. You can even save time by enabling 1-Click purchasing.

Don’t Restrict Yourself to Amazon Only

Bet you didn’t see this one coming! Yes, this two-day deal event is phenomenal, and you should absolutely take advantage, but there are other massive online retailers – Target, Walmart, Best Buy, etc – that don’t just sit idly by while Amazon sweeps up every online customer for 48 hours. In fact, these rival sites often host their own mini deals that receive a lost less publicity, and you’ll often find some of the best savings here.