Amazon Prime Day 2018: The best student deals in tech

If you’re keen to watch content in 4K though, you’ll find lots available as a part of your Prime membership in Prime Video. Still, if you aren’t, Amazon is always hosting a free trial that typically gets you the first month for free.

Amazon is cutting £50 off the PS4’s Pro RRP of £350, meaning you can now buy one for less than £300 if you’re savvy enough to cash in on this limited time deal. See something you want?

Having a Prime account will give you notifications on when new deals come through, as well as better deals on some of the best items. Dengler also recommended that consumers check CamelCamelCamel, an Amazon price-checker, to ensure they’re getting a good deal. Eastern time, according to Downdetector.com, which monitors web trouble.

Beginning at 6:00 AM PST (9:00 AM EST), “consumers looking for great deals can shop the things they love at unbelievable prices on eBay.com/deals”, eBay says. It says customers bought more pencils, pens, notebooks, glue sticks, lunchboxes and backpacks on Prime Day last year than any other day of the year.

While the deals on third party products may not be earth-shattering, Amazon usually slashes prices on its own devices, like the Alexa Smart Speaker, Fire stick streaming TV device and their line of Kindles.

No, AWS Cloud is not down, according to Amazon’s status page.

The Echo Show is expected to be slashed to $129.99 ($100 off) and the Echo Dot will sell for $34.99 ($15 off).

The company’s fourth Prime Day is set to stretch for 36 hours and includes deals across its site, as well as at its grocery-store chain Whole Foods.

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Amazon tested out its inaugural Prime Day in July of 2015 to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary. Prime Members will get an additional 10 percent off those sale items. In addition to this, an instant discount of 10% is given to the using HDFC Debit and Credit cards and straightway 10% cashback for those using their Amazon Pay balance to make their Prime Day purchases. It’s hoping to keep Prime attractive for current and would-be subscribers after raising the US annual membership fee by 20 percent to $119 and to $12.99 for the month-to-month option. Just don’t forget to cancel if you don’t want to be auto-billed $12.99 a month.