The Amazon Big Spring Sale starts today in the US, following the UK version of the event, which took place a couple of weeks ago.
This is the first Amazon US sale event of the year, and it now makes up one of the several deals events that take place over the course of a year.
To take advantage of the Amazon deals, you'll need to be signed up for Amazon Prime. Amazon offers a free trial period for new users, but you can cancel your trial before the first payment is taken.
Amazon Spring Deal Days US: Top picks
Amazon Big Spring Sale: Are the deals any good?
Yes, they are.
We have been pleasantly surprised this time around at the amount of strong deals on offer, particularly in the tech space.
Several items are the chepest they have ever been on Amazon, which isn't always the case for every sale event. Now is a good time to buy many of the items included here.
How we find the best cycling deals
There are several Amazon sale events each year that we cover, but we don't use AI, robots, monkeys with typewriters, nor Santa's elves to compile this content, it's all done by members of the Cyclingnews tech team.
This year, that includes Josh Croxton, Will Jones, Tom Wieckowski, Paul Brett and Graham Cottingham. Each of whom has years of experience writing tech-related bike content for websites and magazines.
Put simply, we trawl the sales looking for products that feature in our buying guides, then if we find a good price, we cross-check it against the rest of the internet.
We use tools to help us. Primarily, we use the strangely-titled but eminently useful CamelCamelCamel tool to check historical pricing. We also use The Wayback Machine to check former listings where necessary.
More pertinently, though, we use our years of experience testing cycling products (bikes, clothing, accessories, tech and so on) to give us a good understanding of what products are good, and which are bad, because no matter how cheap or heavily discounted something is, it's not a 'good deal' if the product is worthless.
We then combine that insight with our knowledge of the industry. We know which brands are popular, and which are not. We sometimes know which are overstocked (and likely to want to discount heavily). We also know if a brand just launched - or might be set to launch - a new model, and thus might want to clear out the older model to make room for the new one.
More than anything, we simply use our understanding of which products are available on the market in each category, what they're priced at, and which of them are the best. If product A is marginally better than product B, but product B becomes significantly cheaper in sales, we make a human judgment on which to recommend. If we still think product A is worth the extra spend, then we'll say that, and likewise Vice Versa. Sometimes we might simply give you the facts and let you make that judgment because only you can truly decide what the best product is for your needs and your budget.
If we find a product that meets the criteria of good, a good price, and is not available cheaper elsewhere, then it gets added. If it is available cheaper elsewhere, we might still include it if it's a good offer, but we'll always share the better price too.
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