Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Deals

If Amazon crashes again on Prime Day, eBay has your back

Trevor Mogg
By

Online marketplace eBay is preparing to compete against Prime Day with a cheeky bonus offer that will only go live if Amazon’s site crashes like it did last year.

The aptly named “Crash Sale” will take place on the opening day of Amazon’s massive sales push on July 15, and promises to offer online shoppers “doorbuster savings” of more than 50% on top brands that include LG, Apple, Samsung, KitchenAid, and Garmin. And if Amazon’s servers once again buckle under the weight of online traffic as they did at the start of last year’s Prime Day, eBay will flick the switch on what it describes as “a fresh batch of too-good-to-be-true deals.”

In a bid to draw attention away from Prime Day and boost sales via its own service, eBay will add a slew of deals to its site during most of July.

Related

So, besides the Crash Sale on July 15, you’ll also find seven days of savings worth up to 85% on “summer essentials, appliances, and more, including stand mixers, cookware, robotic vacuums, camping gear, outdoor toys, and more” from July 1 through 7.

Then, from July 8 through 22, visitors to eBay should look out for fresh deals landing daily on an array of items, with savings of up to 80% offered.

An online message touting its upcoming sales event has eBay taking a tongue-in-cheek swipe at Amazon, claiming that shoppers will find great deals “on the things they actually want.” But if you check out Digital Trends’ carefully compiled Prime Day piece on the kind of deals you can expect to see, we think you’ll be just fine.

“eBay is primed to deliver exactly what shoppers want during this year’s Crash Sale,” the company’s Jay Hanson said in a release, adding, “July has become a massive shopping season, and our summer sales include blockbuster deals that will not disappoint.”

Next month looks all set to become one of the busiest ever for online summer shopping, with Amazon’s annual sales extravaganza prompting competitors to ramp up their own efforts to attract customers.

July 15 marks Amazon’s fifth Prime Day, though this time around the event will last two days instead of the usual one. Last year, the sale got off to a troubled start when the site went down for a number of hours. But thanks to eBay’s Crash Sale, at least there’ll be an upside if it happens again next month.

Editors' Recommendations

Topics
Trevor Mogg
Trevor Mogg
Contributing Editor
Not so many moons ago, Trevor moved from one tea-loving island nation that drives on the left (Britain) to another (Japan)…
Amazon changed the Prime Day 2021 date (again)
Prime Day Deals

Introduced in 2015 in honor of Amazon's 20th anniversary, Prime Day has become an annual smorgasbord of shopping deals on par with Black Friday. Accessible exclusively by Prime members (but who doesn't have a Prime membership these days?), it was initially held for only 24 hours, but its popularity caused Amazon to expand it to two days.

Unlike Black Friday, which, although now a week-long event, is still the same day every year, the exact date of Prime Day has proven to not be set in stone. Although it was initially held on July 15, it was on July 12 in 2016 and July 11 in 2017. In 2018, it was moved to July 16 so as to not conflict with the World Cup Final. It returned to its original date of July 15 in 2019 but was expanded to two days, while in 2020, Amazon pushed the event back to October 13 and 14 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While this year the shopping extravaganza was expected to return to its July dates, Recode recently announced that sources have revealed that Prime Day 2021 may very well come early -- in June!

Read more
Prime Day deal deadlines have been set by Amazon for sellers
Prime Day

It's looking very likely that Prime Day 2021 will be returning to its usual mid-July slot with news that companies can now submit their deals if they wish to take part. Keen sellers have until April 23 to submit Lightning deals and until May 28 to submit Prime Member Voucher deals.

Prime Day is traditionally held during the first or second week of July each year to mark Amazon's birthday. However, in 2020, the huge sales event was delayed until October due to the COVID-19 pandemic which disrupted almost everything across the world. The news that deal submissions are being taken now strongly suggests that Amazon is back on track to provide its two-day sales event at the usual time of year.

Read more
Amazon third-party sellers raked in over $3.5 billion on Prime Day 2020
Amazon Warehouse

Prime Day was disappointing this year. With less than impressive discounts on TVs, laptops, and Apple products, it was one of the worst Prime Days we've ever seen. And yet, according to Amazon, third-party sellers still brought in a record $3.5 billion from the shopping event.

Amazon has yet to disclose its overall earnings for Prime Day, choosing instead to focus on the success of the small businesses that sell products on the site. However, it is probably safe to assume that if third-party sellers had record numbers, the online retailer probably did pretty well.

Read more