Amazon’s 2018 Prime Day has ended. Wirecutter’s Deals team scanned 49,200 deals over the course of the 36-hour event, recommending 258 of them to our readers. We’re keeping our Deals page active with any final offers that are still available as we go back to bringing you great deals every day of the year.
As we did last year, we saw more long-lasting deals in the lead-up to Prime Day and the early hours of the event. These deals, which went live at 3 p.m. Eastern on Monday and were always intended to last for much of the sale, included the Anova Precision Cooker Wi-Fi, the Dyson V8 Absolute Stick Vacuum, and the Travelpro Platinum Magna 2. These discounts were among the most generous of the event.
On Tuesday, we saw more lightning deals on our picks. Although some of these deals were great, most of them didn’t match the standout deals we saw go live on Monday, or they sold out too fast.
The initial flood of traffic from the start of the event Monday afternoon created errors for some customers trying to reach Amazon’s site. In the first hours of Prime Day, we saw complaints from shoppers about ending up on the company’s “dogs of Amazon” pages and experiencing some failures at checkout.
As of Tuesday morning, the site errors appeared to subside, and neither Wirecutter readers nor staffers reported problems navigating to Amazon’s homepage, adding items to their carts, or checking out. We kept monitoring the website over the course of Tuesday, and the problems didn’t return.
Amazon dropped the prices of most of its own devices—including Echo speakers and Kindle e-readers—early Monday morning before the event officially began, so we posted a list of the deals on Amazon items our team thought were worth considering.
We were active on Twitter fielding reader questions. And after a little back and forth, we were even able to get Ergodriven to drop the price of the Topo down to less than $85—the lowest price we’d ever seen on our top pick for the best standing desk mat.
We also tweeted out deals on staff picks—things our staffers spent their own money on this Prime Day—such as these individually wrapped Sour Patch Kids and this floating hammock that’s a favorite of Wirecutter founder Brian Lam.
Our appliances editor, Liam McCabe, spotted several confusing deals on robot vacuums and helped readers find the best for the price any day. The iRobot Roomba 671, a variant of our runner-up pick that works over Wi-Fi and is repairable, was consistently the the best deal at $230. But because of fluctuating prices, at times the Eufy RoboVac 11S and EcoVacs Deebot N79 were better buys.