Amazon Launches “Prime Thanksgiving Sale” — 5ch: “I’ve Never Once Found Something I Actually Wanted”

Background and Key Points of This Discussion

Amazon’s “Prime Thanksgiving Sale” is one of several major sales held each year, alongside July’s “Prime Day,” and in recent years it’s become standard practice to run it as a two-stage event—an early sale followed by the main sale. Where opinions in the thread diverged was over how much of a real discount shoppers actually felt: some argued that consumables like protein powder and coffee are genuinely worth waiting for since they go on sale periodically, while others countered that Amazon’s own devices, like Fire tablets, have kept getting more expensive over the past several years, so any “discount” is more illusion than reality. Another recurring theme was distrust toward sellers—since Amazon’s marketplace includes not just items shipped by Amazon itself but also a large number of third-party sellers, and users often point to suspicious spikes in review counts or the presence of counterfeit goods mixed in. It’s worth noting this is a matter of individual listings being problematic, not grounds for sweeping, blanket criticism of Amazon as a whole or of China as a country. It’s also worth keeping in mind that the actual size of the discount varies by product, and reactions in the thread are shaped by each poster’s own shopping habits.