Amazon celebrated its 20th birthday with an ambitious mid-July discount bonanza to rival Black Friday and Cyber Monday. While it sold nearly 400 items per second over the course of this 24-hour event held on July 15, and more Amazon Prime members signed up that day than ever before, this first ever Prime Day was met with mixed reactions.
If you’d like to feast your eyes on a few social media wisecracks, then why not read on?
Prime Puns by Prime Customers
Whatever your views on Amazon Prime Day as a seller, you’ve got to hand it to customers, they tell it like it is; and they’ll most likely be the driving force behind whatever improvements Amazon makes to its Prime Day offer next year. Rest assured, when Prime Day 2016 comes, we’ll be here, ready to laugh our whiskers off. Here are some of the top picks for 2015, in order of waggishness:
- Prime Day is the time your parents say you are going to Disneyland, but take you to the dentist, instead. @joeDmarti (Twitter)
- Thank you, Amazon, for respecting customers’ budgets, and not posting anything terribly desirable on sale for Prime Day. @packetlife (Twitter)
- [Dishwasher Detergent] WHAT I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED! @AdmiralBahroo (Twitter)
- [See-Through Birdhouse] For the CIA lover AND bird lover in your family. @scottpdawson (Twitter)
- If I can’t buy a life-sized Optimus Prime on Prime Day, what’s the point? how2beadad (Tumblr)
- Ooh, Amazon, you must be psychic! My Crocs have worn down to the heels. @NeillWilkinson (Twitter)
- Now you, too, can save money on high demand products, such as toilet paper and iodine supplements. Yes sir, this is the new Black Friday, alright! emjaidi (Tumblr)
- A lot of the discounts look like they fell off a truck headed to a poorly regulated flea market for sad people, held in a dumpster. Kate Knibbs (Gizmodo, 7/15/15)
- At least on Black Friday you can go to the store and punch someone. Jessica Brandt (Facebook)
- But maybe I DO want 55 gallons of lube! howtolivefatandhappy (Tumblr)
- PrimeDay is a bigger disappointment than I am to my parents. @AlexWakehouse (Twitter)
- When I die, I want whoever’s responsible for PrimeDay to lower me into my grave, so they can let me down one last time. @DrinkTheSunnyD (Twitter)
Hoping our short list of one-liners brightens up your day at the office, we say H/T to Andreea F., the purveyor of these interesting bite-size, lunchbreak appropriate bits of food for thought.
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Melanie takes an active interest in all things Amazon. She keeps an eye on the latest developments, and keeps Amazon sellers up to speed.