Black Friday vs Prime Big Deal Days: should you wait?

In some ways, it's good to wait till Black Friday sales kick off in Australia for purchasing big-ticket items like TVs and laptops as nearly every retailer will be vying for your attention. However, for most items available on Amazon, this year's Prime Big Deal Days sale is proving to be quite good than previous ones, so you can get a head start on your Christmas gift shopping — I would highly recommend it.

So it all depends on what exactly it is that you'd like to buy. If it's Halloween decorations or Christmas gifts, indeed shop now. For the more expensive tech, I would suggest you wait, but there's no guarantee you'll get stock later. As always, if a price suits your budget now on a product sold on Amazon AU, splurge away.

Hello and welcome back to my ongoing live coverage of Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale. And, guess what? It's proving to be a rather big deal indeed. I honestly wasn't expected the kind of prices I'm seeing right now — I assumed that would happen during the Amazon Black Friday sale.

That begs the question: if prices are already low now, would we see even better discounts in November? Well, we can hope but there are no guarantees. So if a price looks right to you and it's an item you've had on your shopping list for a while, grab it now.