When is Amazon Prime Day 2020? Date, best deals, and all we know so far

Given how the coronavirus pandemic reformed customer attitudes to online shopping as essential, we can reasonably expect that Amazon will make out like a bandit with its Prime Day 2020 deals bonanza.

What is Amazon Prime Day? Well, it's an annual shopping event for Amazon's coveted Prime subscribers who, in exchange for an annual fee, are getting free fast shipping and media subscriptions, as well as said exclusive deals and discounts access. 

Yes, Prime Day 2020 deals! We kid, fall back in a summer slumber, as Amazon is mulling whether to have its 2020 Prime Day feast delayed, but not from July to August, as previously reported. 

Last year, Prime Day was a raging success, even bigger than those staples of the promo sales like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and, considering the popularity boost that online shopping got from the coronavirus, Amazon will probably have its cake and eat it, too, when it comes to revenue numbers.

As the name of the shopping fiesta suggests, in order to qualify for the deals, you have to be an Amazon Prime member, but if you don't want the membership fee and all the perks that come with it, you could just cancel before the 30-day trial period has ended. 

Here's how and when to shop on Amazon Prime Day 2020 to get the best deals and discounts on TVs, phones, games, and all else:

1. Sign up for Amazon Prime to start its 30-day trial service. You can just sign up for the gig, or you can keep your subscription for the promo codes and discounts bounty. If you have access to a student email, even better, as those lucky souls get a free six-months Amazon Prime membership. You know what to do on eBay.

2. Download the Amazon app (Android, iOS) and sign in with your Prime credentials. Since the Amazon Prime 2020 days will probably circulate deals on more than a 100,000 items, with new ones by the hour, and pre-Prime listings in the days running up to Prime Day, you'd want to add things to your cart at any given time.

3. Check out Amazon's Prime Day Guide which last year had useful shopping tips and tricks, as well as a listing of the best previous deals so you know what you may be up to on Prime Day 2020.

4. Shop early, make a list, and fulfill orders quickly, as last year plenty of items ran out in the first few hours, and Amazon Prime Day 2020 will be even less of an exception, considering the stocking and shipping issues that the coronavirus lockdown induced.

Will there be deals and promos on the Apple Watch or Galaxy S20 series during Amazon Prime Day 2020? Last year, Prime Day saw the Apple Watch at $75 off, and the LG V35 at the whopping $500 discount, so, given the coronavirus crisis, we'd expect even deeper Amazon deals and discounts for Prime Day 2020. 

What were the best-selling devices on Amazon Prime Day? In America, Amazon's top-selling Prime Day items were the LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, the Instant Pot DUO60 and 23andMe health and ancestry kits, but the company also moved hundreds of thousands of laptops, TVs and headphones.

While the shelter-at-home state orders that arose from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic boosted the Amazon share price and made CEO Jeff Bezos even richer, the online shopping spree also brought immense challenges to the supply chains of, well, everything, not only toilet paper.

Heck, in Amazon France was even banned from stocking up on and delivering anything but essential goods, and barely a Bluetooth speaker could come by, unless wrapped in toilet paper. We kid, but the unprecedented pressure on Amazon's warehouse workers and delivery drivers has forced the company to postpone the Amazon Prime Day launch until its warehouses and delivery lines are ready.

It was just last week that Amazon started allowing its army of third-party seller to ship non-essentials to its warehouses with no stock limits, and it will take a while until the space is filled with items that are not directly related to surviving a coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home order.

Even when the Amazon non-essential warehouse stock goes back to pre-crisis levels, that still leaves the issues with packing, shipping, and delivery. Amazon Prime subscribers were first to learn that the annual membership fee they pay isn't pandemic-proof, and Amazon still hasn't returned to its one-day shipping policy for those members.

After all, the best Amazon Prime Day 2020 deals can't have the six-day shipping delay that orders experienced in March, and not even the three-day delay they are suffering now on average, and that is why Prime Day 2020 is getting postponed for September 14 or thereabouts.