As the #PrimeDay kicks in, some thoughts and suggestions in 5 tweets.

1. If you purchase something you did not plan, you most probably don't need it

2. If you bought a 1000re item at 750re, you did not save 250, you spent 750

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3. Resist. Flash sales are designed to give you do dopamine surge. The same feeling you have when you accomplish something but here you don't - you just spent and yet are fooled into believing you accomplished. Ask gamers.

"Phew! I managed to get the smartphone finally!"

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4. The best way to take an announced sale to your advantage, is to have a 'wishlist' listed into: "Buy Urgently", "Buy if economic" and keep building it. Amazon notifies you if something in your wishlist is on a deal. Make Amazon work for you.

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5. Use Keepa to see if a deal listed on 'sale' is actually priced low or you are being tricked. My 'data' tells me they jack up prices just before sale on some long tail items (non-promoted like OnePlus). Use MS Shopping Assistant. It's pretty neat.

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https://twitter.com/thesalesopsguy/status/1124586797281898497

All the best in resisting not to buy. If you successfully resisted - tell me about it - let's meet and coffee's on me. Add to it - I will build you a simple template to track your financial expenses and be able to forecast what will your net wealth be at the end of the year!

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If you have wanted to buy a #Kindle, this is your best chance. Lowest price ever. But of course as a rule, ask yourself before:

"What are the top 3 books I wanna read?" If you can't answer all 3, then you don't need this.

#dealalert #PrimeDayAmazon
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A wise buyer would know the prices were jacked up just just hours ago. #PrimeDayAmazon

If you thought this is too much work, well I actually got fond of billionaire @mcuban's 'buy in bulk' idea three years ago and have been buying daily use items in bulk. Forget the money it saves me, the time and decision-making fatigue it saves alone is worth it.