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Elton Jones

I used ChatGPT to find the best Prime Day deals — and some of them are even better than Amazon’s discounts

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Forgive me for being extra late to the movement, but I was today years old when I learned about the “Anti-Prime Day” trend.

Simply put, it’s a period where non-Amazon retailers launch competing sales events with attractive discounts for all manner of items. Now that we’re smack dab in the middle of this year’s installment of Prime Day sales, I’m keen on checking out the abundance of sweet deals I can find.

As a fan of wearable devices, video games, action flicks, trading card games and books, I had a feeling that some of the retailers I frequent inside and outside my home could hook me up with the appropriate items.

So I made a beeline to ChatGPT and asked it what methods I should adopt to cash in on the most appealing Anti-Prime Day sales. Not only did it show me the best price history tools to use, but it also sent me to one of my favorite retailers to discover discounts that are better than some Prime Day sales.

Adopting the best Anti-Prime Day discount searching methods

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After asking ChatGPT how to come out at the end of Anti-Prime Day sales with the best deals imaginable, it responded with this statement to put me on the right path:

If you're trying to find the best Anti-Prime Day sales, the goal isn't just to avoid shopping on Prime Day—it's to take advantage of the fact that almost every major retailer launches competing discounts during the same period.

Then it went on to list a bunch of competing online retailers that currently have a long list of amazing products being sold at good to great prices:

  • Best Buy (Tech Fest Sale; Ends on Sunday, June 28)
  • Kohl’s (Deal Days; Ends on Sunday, June 28)
  • Cozy Earth (Cozy Day Deals: Ends on Saturday, June 27)
  • Bugaboo (Summer Sale; Ends on Tuesday, July 7)
  • Athleta (Semi-Annual Sale; Ends on Sunday, June 28)
  • Walmart (Walmart Deals; Ends on Sunday, June 28)

The chatbot also made mention of what items tend to get discounted to their lowest possible prices during Anti-Prime Day sales. The ones that stood out to me from that list included physical video games, gaming accessories, headphones, anime box sets, graphic novel omnibuses, manga box sets, LEGO sets and 4K Blu-rays.

ChatGPT also recommended the perfect Anti-Prime Day setup to rely on, which primarily focused on using a bunch of efficient price history tools:

  • Keepa for deep Amazon price history.
  • CamelCamelCamel for quick verification.
  • Slickdeals alerts for deal discovery.
  • Honey for cross-retailer coupon and price tracking.
  • Compare prices at Target, Walmart, Best Buy, and Barnes & Noble before buying.
  • One useful rule: if a Prime Day deal isn't at or near the lowest price shown in Keepa or CamelCamelCamel, it's usually worth waiting for a better sale later in the year. Multiple deal experts and experienced shoppers use that exact approach to avoid fake discounts and inflated "was" prices.

The six Best Buy goodies I came across

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Since my main focus during all those Anti-Prime Day sales was getting the best prices for a new smartwatch, a couple of video games, a collection of films starring an iconic spy and a set of trading cards I had been eyeing for a long time, I ended up on Best Buy’s digital storefront and found exactly what I wanted.

And what’s even better about these finds is how their discounts ended up being better than the ones seen on Amazon:

The takeaway

I owe it to my living under a cave at some point and not even knowing about Anti-Prime Day before this little ChatGPT experiment I conducted. Better late than never, I say!

My go-to chatbot helped me set up a winning game plan for this week’s digital sales from a variety of online retailers, use price history tools to compare all the items I had sitting on my Amazon wish list and find much better prices for those same items through Best Buy.

What started this year as a money-saving experiment has now morphed into an annual tradition for me and my wallet.

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