Hi all,

I went through a lot of Amazon Black Friday and Cyber Monday smart home deals, checking every major brand I could think of. I compiled everything into tables for comparison, including the original price, the Black Friday deal price, and the discount percentage.

You can check it out here:

Amazon BF/CM Smart Home Deals

Just like every year (and for those who aren't aware), the discounts appear bigger than they actually are. First, because brands like to calculate based on the original recommended price and not the usual price a device sells for. And second, because they slowly raise prices in the months leading up to the sale (prime day included) to make the discounts appear bigger.

From all that data I gathered, the real number floats around 15-20% across all brands. It's still a discount, just not as big as most make it out to be. Robot vacuums have the biggest price drops, perhaps cause it’s a competitive segment and a good chance for brands to clear stock. From the other smart home brands, I think ThirdReality and Sonoff have the most honest discounts. They aren’t huge, but they’re the least manipulated. Lutron Caseta and Eve have the worst (and fakest) discounts, with most products actually priced higher than last year’s sale.

The easiest way to check how real a discount is, is to use a price history tool like Keepa. It adds a price graph directly onto each Amazon product page, showing the true historical price rather than the inflated deal price. CamelCamelCamel is another useful alternative to Keepa, but from my tests it appears to have less data on smart home products compared to Keepa.

i’m trying to figure out if it’s worth waiting for the amazon black friday deals this year or if the prices are already as good as they will get. i’m mainly hunting for a few home upgrades and maybe some kitchen stuff but i don’t want to waste time refreshing the site if nothing real drops.

anyone seeing legit discounts yet or is it all the usual fake sale stuff?

I run a home decor/furniture search engine and compiled these while aggregating deals across retailers. I've done this on/off for the past few years to help out (see 2023)

Figured it might save some folks hours of hunting. Let me know if I missed any good ones!

If you're looking for sitewide discounts:

• 1st Dibs – Up to 60% off sitewide

• 7th Avenue – 10% off sitewide

• Abc Carpet & Home – Up to 35% off sitewide

• Alice Lane – 20% off sitewide

• Bassett – 30% off sitewide

• BenchMade Modern – 25% off sitewide

• Bien-mal – 25% off sitewide

• Boll & Branch – 25% off sitewide

• Coyuchi – 25% off sitewide

• Design Within Reach – 25% off sitewide

• EQ3 – Up to 40% off sitewide

• Eternity Modern – Up to 70% off everything

• Floyd – 30% sitewide (members only)

• Frontgate – Up to 60% off sitewide

• Great Big Canvas – Up to 60% off sitewide

• Horchow – Up to 40% off sitewide

• Houzz – Up to 65% off sitewide

• Interior Define – Up to 30% off sitewide

• Joybird – 35% off sitewide

• Lemieux et Cie – Up to 25% off sitewide

• Lovesac – 40% off sitewide

• Lulu and Georgia – Up to 30% off sitewide

• MasayaCo Up to 40% off sitewide

• McGee & Co. – Up to 30% off sitewide

• Mitzi – 20% off sitewide

• Modloft – Up to 50% off sitewide

• Moon Pod – Up to 30% off sitewide

• Nathan James – Up to 70% off sitewide

• Neighbor – 15% off site-wide (plus tiers)

• Parachute – 25% off sitewide

• Pier 1 – Up to 40% off sitewide

• Poly & Bark – 20% off sitewide

• Revival – Up to 30% off sitewide

• Rifle Paper – 30% off sitewide

• Rove Concepts – 35% off sitewide (members)

• Sundays – Up to 40% off sitewide

• The Citizenry – 25% off sitewide

• The Inside – Up to 30% off sitewide

• Tuft & Needle – 30% off sitewide

• Yardbird – 30–60% off sitewide

• Yogibo – 35% off sitewide

Higher discounts, but sometimes on select items:

• Belfort Furniture - Up to 80%

• Costway - Up to 80%

• Wayfair - Up to 80% (but arent they always discounted?)

• Ballard Designs - Up to 75%

• OROA - Up to 75%

• EQ3 - Up to 70%

• Eternity Modern - Up to 70%

• Homary - Up to 70%

• Joss & Main - Up to 70%

• Parrot Uncle - Up to 70%

• Plow & Hearth - Up to 70%

• 1st Dibs - Up to 60 - 65%

• Ashley - Up to 60 - 65%

• Blu Dot - Up to 60 - 65%

• Frontgate - Up to 60 - 65%

• Great Big Canvas - Up to 60 - 65%

• Lighting New York - Up to 60 - 65%

• Living Spaces - Up to 60 - 65%

• Modani - Up to 60 - 65%

• Slumberland Furniture - Up to 60 - 65%

• Yardbird - Up to 60 - 65%

I've got a larger spreadsheet that I'm happy to send over if you want a more organized list (or if you want it updated). onton.com is where I regularly update these deals!

Was about to make a purchase (a mini split AC unit) from Home Depot and the on sale price changed from 30% off to 27% off based on my purchase location. That 3% is over $50. If I found a location that still had the 30% off would they price match their own store in a different location?