Amazon beats Black Friday with the first Prime Day sale

17 July, 2015
Worldwide order growth increased by 266% over the same day last year and 18% more than Black Friday 2014.

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It seems Amazon is only comparing against the Black Friday day rather than the week it runs its lengthy selections of lightning deals for. Generally I always get a few items during the Black Friday week, but there was nothing on Prime Day that convinced me to sign-up, at least nothing that would recoup the cost of the subscription.

Another problem with Amazon Prime is that the service is useless in Ireland. When I signed up for a trial last year, the Prime Instant Video on Amazon UK is all UK-geographically locked and the same with the Prime deliveries, so I had to cancel the trial before it would start charging me for a service that I could not use.

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    • niti
    • w43
    • 18 Jul 2015

    friday ws block..hahahaha

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      • itwasboundtohappen
      • jBv
      • 18 Jul 2015

      Boldy, 17 Jul 20151 hour and 0 comments. Ditching disqus is surely paying off. Cnet suffered a lot from doing the switch too. They used to have a great comment community, but after switching to Lyfe instead of Disqus the community died

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        • Pavan
        • kDj
        • 17 Jul 2015

        Walmart deals are far better that amazon

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          • Anonymous
          • RYf
          • 17 Jul 2015

          Wasn't that many good deals really. I was disappointed.

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            • LaT
            • 17 Jul 2015

            Amazon prime day was a joke

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              • Nite
              • utJ
              • 17 Jul 2015

              OO.. Canada you never seizes to amaze everyone
              Seriously huggies diapers😂

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                • techmad
                • Q18
                • 17 Jul 2015

                Prime Day was nothing more than a glorified Garage Sale by Amazon. Nothing useful at all. I got better deals at Walmart.

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                  • Itn
                  • 17 Jul 2015

                  Boldy, 17 Jul 20151 hour and 0 comments. Ditching disqus is surely paying off. Maybe, and this is a big "Maybe", it has more to do with the content than the commenting system.

                  I'm just a small town commenter who thought people came to a site to discuss the articles. Turns out they might just show up to use the commenting system to talk about random topics.

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                    • vI7
                    • 17 Jul 2015

                    @GSMArena : Please bring Disqus back !! Or atelast implement Disqus like features i.e. easy to view notification for replies and upvotes.

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                      • at@
                      • 17 Jul 2015

                      Boldy, 17 Jul 20151 hour and 0 comments. Ditching disqus is surely paying off. How did you change your pic?

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                        • Boldy
                        • uu}
                        • 17 Jul 2015

                        1 hour and 0 comments. Ditching disqus is surely paying off.

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                          • Pizdosul
                          • iDB
                          • 17 Jul 2015

                          I hate croc sandals

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                            • utc
                            • 17 Jul 2015

                            Germany? Crocs? hahaha

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                              • KS7
                              • 17 Jul 2015

                              TBH, it was drab and extremely boring. Some other stores had mind-melting deals -_-