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# Amazon's Deals Before Black Friday Are A Bit Of A Ruse

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## Video: Amazon's Deals Before Black Friday Are A Bit Of A Ruse

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## Transcript

Amazon will unveil its Black Friday deals a week early on Friday, November 20th. Oh, and you can start buying stuff then, too. But it's already offering some steep savings in the meantime, like an Android tablet that usually goes for $ 170 listed at $ 42. Or just enticing us with a few bucks off on bakeware. The retail giant said on its deals page it didn't want to wait until the Friday after Thanksgiving Promising even more deals, all day, every day. But here's how Amazon is hooking until those black friday deals roll out. Some are of the day deals, meaning you have 24 hours to buy the item until the deal expires.

So, it's gonna give us eight days of savings. But as TechCrunch pointed out those coveted deals will still happen at midnight on Thanksgiving. Amazon will offer ten daily deals on turkey day. And then up to another ten throughout black friday. And of course its Prime members will get a head start. USA today points out, other retailers are looking to extend their bank accounts, or Black Friday deals, past a single day in November. [ MUSIC ] Target, Kohl's, and other retailers have also started the sales early. Although for Amazon, even if the whole scheme doesn't work in the company's favor, it made its own holiday in July called Prime Day that broke its previous Black Friday sales.

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