This is the ninth of the behemoth Amazon’s special sales day — this year stretched out over Monday and Tuesday — and estimates from last year say the online store raked in $12 billion from the event, which was inaugurated to celebrate Amazon’s 20th year in business.
It’s freakish, how much a consumer event can grab our attention. NBC covered it. So did Consumer Reports and Business Insider.
Please understand that a large portion of my worldly goods arrived on my porch in that iconic blue truck, but I cannot treat a sale with that much excitement. It’s commerce, not an event.
We recently watched “Air,” a movie about Michael Jordan’s early career selling shoes, and while I and the grandkids enjoyed it, we talked about the fact that the movie was about convincing a world-class athlete to serve as a spokesman for a sneaker. On the scale of world events, well…it, too, was essentially a sales event. When the people in the movie gave one another fist bumps and jubilant hugs over bagging the Jordan account, it was not sports or a successful military campaign. So…yawn.
I celebrated by driving to Loveland to talk to our tax guy about foreign earned income exclusion and residential restrictions associated with it.
Our 10 year old printer gave out a few days before Prime Days. We tried everything to fix it with no luck. Was the printer we wanted discounted extra for Prime Days? Of course not! The big savings was we got 1% extra in credit back if we used our Prime card. I was looking for one other item, which also ended up not being part of the Prime Days sale.