Amazon Black Friday: Everything you need to know for 2024′s biggest sales event

Amazon’s Prime Days may seem like Christmas, but Black Friday is closer to the most magical time of year.

With deals spanning across various categories, from beauty and electronics to kitchen appliances and fashion, Amazon’s Black Friday sale is a prime opportunity to score significant savings.

Planning ahead can help you navigate the deals and ensure you’re getting the best prices for your most-wanted items.

Unlike Prime Days, you don’t need to be an Amazon Prime member to access Black Friday deals, but having a Prime membership can provide significant advantages. Prime members can unlock early access to some of the event’s biggest and most-likely-to-sell-out deals. Plus, with Prime shipping, you can get your goodies with fast and free delivery — which is especially helpful during the busy and chaotic holiday season.

To get you ready for this major sale, here’s everything you need to know about Amazon Black Friday deals in 2024.

When do Amazon Black Friday deals start?

While most Black Friday sales go live the day after Thanksgiving, falling on Friday, Nov. 29 this year, Amazon’s well-known for lifting the veil on its most-anticipated deals well before the official start date — sometimes as early as the beginning of November. These early deals offer sneak peeks into the main event and let shoppers start saving sooner.

The sale traditionally runs through the weekend and into Cyber Monday. And it’s not uncommon for Amazon to drop even more surprising and delightful deals throughout the duration of the holiday shopping season and right on through Christmas Day.

Better yet, Amazon also has several deeply-discounted, limited-time offers called Lightning Deals that crop up for some of the season’s biggest hits. So, if you’re one for stocking up on the toys, gifts and games at the top of every “best of” wishlist, then you’ll want to add these hot buys to your cart as soon as you can.

Here are some Lightning Deals to grab now, if you’re itching to get shopping:

What are the Amazon Black Friday deals?

Amazon hasn’t revealed any of its Black Friday deals yet, but we expect more details to leak about the holiday season’s biggest markdowns within the next month.

These are some of the top products that Amazon slashed prices on last year: