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TIL Many Amazon Prime Day Deals are fraud and one needs to check price history before buying even from established sellers. For example, "Wyze Lifestyle" jacked up prices for their Wyze Scale X products on Prime Day only to bring them back down with a "Prime Day Deal" (https://imgur.com/Zi8yNVF).

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