25 Best Early October Prime Day Deals (2023) on Headphones, Vacuums, and More

Amazon will launch a shopping event called Prime Big Deal Days on October 10 and 11, aka Prime Day Part II. As usual, many of these Prime Day deals will require a Prime membership, though you can take advantage of a 30-day trial. In the run-up to the October Prime Big Deal Days event, we’ve rounded up some early deals worth your time and money. Right now, there are already deals on Amazon hardware like Echo speakers and Eero routers, but we’ve also found discounts on work-from-home gear, headphones, and plenty more.

Updated October 7, 2023: We’ve added a handful of early deals, including more Amazon devices, weighted blankets, and an electric scooter.

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Early Prime Day Deals

Amazon devices frequently go on sale, but this is an especially nice deal, since it comes with a free smart plug that typically sells for about $20. It isn’t the exact same model, but a similar Kasa plug is the top pick in our Best Smart Plugs guide. The Echo Dot (5th Gen) is one of our favorite Alexa speakers. You can use the included smart plug to do things like ask Alexa to turn off your box fan or turn on a lamp. If you’d prefer the version with a built-in LED clock, that one is discounted to $45 ($15 off), however, it was priced at $30 on Prime Day back in July. 

This is basically the same bundle as you get with the aforementioned Echo Dot deal. We think the Echo Dot is a better speaker, but the Echo Pop (7/10, WIRED Review) is arguably cuter. Either way, the price is right, especially with the included smart plug. This is $1 more than we saw on Prime Day in July 2023. 

If you’re battling Wi-Fi dead zones in your house, you may need to add a mesh router to your setup. Eero’s Pro 6E (7/10, WIRED Recommends) makes this process as simple and hands-off as it can be, and each one covers 2,000 square feet. The brand’s subscription is pricey at $10 a month (the cheaper option was eliminated)—you don’t have to subscribe for it to work, but there are nice features like parental controls. If you need more than one, a two-pack is currently discounted to $280 ($120 off) and a three-pack is $400 ($150 off). Read our Best Eero Routers guide for more.

If you like to take digital notes, the Kindle Scribe (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is the first of Amazon’s e-readers to let you write on the enormous 10.2-inch screen like a regular notebook. However, if you want to write in the margins of books, you’ll have to settle for using sticky notes. That’s frustrating, given that the point of spending this kind of money is to write on it (marking up books is better on the Kobo Elipsa). This 16-gigabyte version comes with the basic pen, but you can upgrade to the premium pen—which has one end acting as an eraser and a programable shortcut button—and also opt for 32 or 64 gigabytes. 

Amazon just released a new version of its Fire TV Stick 4K (and a 4K Max), but this one isn’t old, so you shouldn’t notice much of a difference. This pricing matches the lowest we’ve ever seen for this device. Fire TV sticks are among our favorite streaming devices, but they are obviously geared toward Amazon Prime content. If you don’t mind being trapped in Amazon’s ecosystem (or you are already fully entrenched), it’s a good deal. 

Other Echo Show devices are also on sale, but the Echo Show 8 is our favorite. This product comes with a free trial of Alexa Together, an Amazon service that claims to help remove caregivers. It usually costs $20 per month. Set a reminder to cancel it if you aren’t interested in subsequent charges. You can also pay $2 more to get it bundled with a Philips Hue Smart Bulb.

We haven’t tested these yet, but they’re the newer version of the pair that we recommend here. Amazon says the battery lasts up to 6 hours per charge. Alexa is built in, should you require on-the-go voice assistant assistance. This is a crazy low price for wireless earbuds in general.

The Blink Mini is compact, versatile, and cheap—even cheaper now, thanks to this deal. We found it was reliable, with good quality video, but it sits in our honorable mentions because it can’t distinguish between pets and people when detecting motion and you need a $3 per month subscription to make the most of the features. Amazon owns Blink as well as Ring.

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