For Prime Day, Amazon Is Unloading Its Echo Smart Glasses for a Big Discount

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You have to be careful with sales; retailers will often jack up the prices before the sale to make the discount seem big—but that is not the case with these Echo smart glasses. Amazon really seems to be trying to unload a serviceable-but-unpopular product, so they're selling 'em for very cheap. The Big Deals day price is $119.99, marked down from $329.99. That's a 64% savings on perfectly respectable audio sunglasses and prescription-ready frames.

Amazon Echo Frames, an Alexa device (newest model), Smart glasses with Alexa, Round frames in Blue Tortoise with polarized sunglass lenses

$119.99 at Amazon

$329.99 Save $210.00

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$119.99 at Amazon

$329.99 Save $210.00

These are Gen 3 Echo glasses that came out in 2023, so they're not hopelessly outdated, they just didn't sell as well as Amazon might have hoped. But they're not bad. They connect hands-free with any Alexa devices, so you can bark out "Hey, Alexa" and use Amazon's agent like you would on any device—play some music, answer a question, control your smart home—all that stuff, right from your glasses.

Are they as cool and useful as Ray-Ban Metas? Not even close, but nobody is selling Metas for $119. I mean, that's a low price for a pair of dumb glasses that don't do anything but help you see better, so if you're in the market for a second pair of eyeglasses or sunglasses, and/or you use Alexa, I recommend taking advantage of this deal.

Looking for something else? Retailers like Walmart and Best Buy have Prime Day competition sales that are especially useful if you don’t have Amazon Prime.

• Walmart’s Prime Day competition sale runs from Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. ET through Oct. 12 and includes deals up to 50% off. It’s an especially good option if you have Walmart+.

• Best Buy’s Prime Day competition sale runs from Sept. 27 through Oct. 12, and has some of the best tech sales online. It’s an especially good option if you’re a My Best Buy “Plus” or “Total” member.

• Target’s Prime Day competition sale runs from Oct. 5 through Oct. 11, and it has deals going up to 50% off. You can become a Circle member for free.

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