Amazon Prime Day July dates confirmed and early deals are live already
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We don't have long left to wait for this year's summer sales bonanza, as Bezos and the gang have just confirmed the Amazon Prime Day deals event for July 16 and 17.
Once again, the Prime Day sale will be a 48-hour event, with fresh deals dropping throughout. It will technically begin at 12:01 a.m. PT (3 a.m. ET) on the 16th. As the name suggests, the Prime Day deals will be exclusively available to members of Amazon Prime.
If you're not a member, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial right now, with no obligation to keep it. So yes, you could sign up just for access to Prime Day, then cancel it before you reach that first paid month. If you want to take advantage of the early deals, you'll need to sign up now. We haven't seen a discount on Prime subs just before Prime Day for a long time now (famous last words), so if one of these Prime deals has caught your eye, there's no harm in signing up early.
If you're a college student and/or aged 18-24 you get the best deal of the lot as you can try Amazon Prime free for six months. Then, if you decide to keep the service, it will only cost $7.49 a month or $69 for a year. That's half-price compared to the prices everyone else is paying.
Prime Day deals starting already
Amazon has set up an early landing page for various early Prime Day deals promotions. We've had a browse this morning, and while nothing's blown our socks off just yet, there are some good offers on a few items that might be of interest if you're in the market.
The Fire 7 Kids tablet is 54% off at $59.99, the lowest price we've seen it go for by $15. If you're feeling the heat right now, how about a thick cooling mattress topper from top sleep brand Tempur-Pedic at 50% off for $251? We've only seen it cheaper before by $2.
We always look for the usually pricy Dyson vacuums, and the Dyson V8 is now $349 (previously $469), its lowest price this year - but we saw it drop to $285 around Black Friday last year. This one is on the Prime Day promo page but isn't actually a Prime exclusive.
Given how far off the lowest-ever price it is, we'd be tempted to hold off and see what else comes along when the full sale begins. There might be other discounted Dysons, and if not, there will certainly be lots of price cuts for other brands of vacuums. Robot vacuum deals are always featured, too, if you've been thinking of handing off the tiresome task to our soon-to-be robot overlords.
We'll update our roundup of the best early Prime Day deals as the event approaches in mid-July. But if you'd prefer to browse yourself, you can see all the latest offers via the store link below.
If you have something more specific in mind, we have a few category roundups of early deals that have caught our eye. We're talking about discounted MacBooks and Airpods for Apple Prime Day deals. Audio, in general, is a strong category in the sale, so keep an eye on our Prime Day headphone deals guide, too. And with Black Friday being so far away, we always look forward to Prime Day TV deals.
Elsewhere around the home, Prime Day furniture deals might just have something for you both indoors and outdoors. Prime Day beauty deals always come through with significant discounts on makeup and styling products.