It is, indeed, that time of the summer again. Prime Day takes place from July 16-17, 2024, and is surely the time to stock up on cut-price printing supplies and maybe even a new machine.
Those well-versed in the shopping bonanza Amazon calls Prime Day can scoot a couple of paragraphs down for the deal details. Everyone else, pay attention.
Amazon Prime Day is a limited-time shopping event, where the everything-store Amazon puts on additional sales for paid-up members of its Prime subscription. The deal also applies to those in the free trial period of their subscription, so given that all plans start with a 30-day free trial, there’s really very little reason not to take a look and subscribe.
So far, so simple. And it is. Some deals last throughout the Prime Day event, while others are fleeting “lightning deals”–so it can pay to pay attention to what’s coming up.
Such is the magnitude of the event, other stores bank on the interest and time their own “Prime Day” sales to coincide. Below, we’ve picked out the stores and eye-catching deals we think you should know.
Prime Day is running. But are you? Chase those deals… go!
Here’s a selection of decent deals on 3D printers, filaments, resins, and the stores running their own special sale action in parallel.
Creality is in on it, offering what it says is up to 60% off its latest product lineup. The prices for the hardware look to have temporarily risen before lowering back to where they were at the end of June (tsk tsk, Creality,) but looking closer, there are free “gift” bundles with particular printers that catch our attention, such as 3 kg of Ender PLA filament and a year’s access to the premium tier of Creality Cloud with a purchase of the Creality K1 Max.
Meanwhile, Elegoo is inviting you to “celebrate Prime Day, the Elegoo way,” from July 15 through July 21, with what it says is up to 44% off a slice of its current lineup of 3D printing hardware. Now that it’s here, we see price drops beyond this, with the Saturn 3 Ultra down to $309, Mars 4 Ultra down to $229, Neptune 4 Max down to $399, and Neptune 4 Pro 3D printer down to $229.
Phrozen’s approach to a Prime Week sale is much simpler, with an appetizing 12% off sitewide (with the exception of the newest Arco and Revo 3D printers). That means the company’s latest resin formulated specifically for tabletop game figurines, RPG, can be picked up for $43.99, rather than the full $49.99 as can Phrozen’s full range of resins and resin 3D printers. Handily, Phrozen is a reseller for Revopoint 3D scanners, and as part of its event has knocked up to 20% off the handsets.
AnkerMake Early Prime Day Sale
AnkerMake’s early prime day sale runs July 8-16 and sees bundles of filament, spares, and accessories bulking up the company’s printer offering. One special has the headless M5C 3D printer combined with two spools of PLA and a spare print head for $299. Particularly appealing is the build plate two-pack, which includes a PEI-coated print bed and smooth epoxy-coated sheet for $17.99, down from $29.99.
SainSmart’s sprawling summer “flash” sale begins on July 10 and runs all the way through to July 21. Teasers show up to 25% off some desktop CNC machines and laser marking machines when the event begins, but if you can’t wait that long, the company’s regular weekly deals have something to offer now, including an extra 15% off sale prices of some 3D printing filament, and 20 % off the 4040 Pro CNC machine; $479.20, down from $599.
3DMakerPro’s Maker Madness sale beat all to the punch, beginning in June and running through July 18. In it, you can blag up to 35% off the company’s range of handheld 3D scanners and accessories.
xTool’s recently expanded lineup of laser cutters, engravers, and all-in-one creativity tools are in on the Prime Day action, too, with a sale on the company’s site offering up to “58%” off. The newly launched M1 Ultra 4-in-1 laser cutter, engraver, plotter, and die-cutting machine gets a steep discount to $1,299, from its eventual retail price of $1,699. Only early-bird-pre-orderers will have gotten it cheaper. Likewise, the F1 Ultra dual fiber and diode laser gets an appreciable drop to $3,999, from its full retail price tag of $4,799.
Just because a price appears to have dropped during a sale doesn’t mean that it is necessarily a good deal. Take the time to check price histories where you can.
There are a number of tools to help you do this, some that even we at All3DP use to keep tabs on prices and check whether a deal is, in fact, a deal.
Keepa is a tried and true service for tracking specific product listings at Amazon. All you need is the product ID–the first string of characters after the product item name in an Amazon product URL.
https://www.amazon.com/Fermerry-Silicone-Electrical-Cables-Stranded/dp/B089D2B6T6/
Searching the ID in Keepa will bring up a set of controls for tracking a price. Here, you can set thresholds at which to be notified, plus view the price history as far back as the product has been listed.
Alternatively, if you’re not keen on digging into the details too deeply and just need a quick indication, keeping the Microsoft Edge browser handy for shopping is another option. It has built-in shopping tools that will, in many cases, give you the immediate price history of a product you’re looking at. Better still, there’s a coupon-checking functionality that can automatically test out publicly known coupons for the store you’re on, potentially saving you a few bucks at no extra effort on your part.
Of course, the downside is keeping a browser around for the explicit purpose of shopping, but the possibility of not sleepwalking into a bad deal and maybe even saving a little more than you expect is a strong argument.
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