Vacuum deals that actually damn well suck

Robot vacuums are the most aggressively "discounted" appliance on Amazon, and most of it is theatre. A new robot launches at a price almost nobody pays, gets a coupon within a week, and lives on a permanent damn sale until its replacement arrives. The good news: when a proper drop does land — below where the machine has actually been selling — it tends to be a big number on a big-ticket item. That's the deal worth waiting for.

How we damn well score vacuums

Every vacuum is judged against its own last 90 days, not its launch price. If a few inflated days have dragged the 90-day average up, we use the median instead, which is how a fake "was" price gets neutralised before it can make a drop look bigger than it is. We search this shelf above a price floor, so you're looking at machines, not replacement filters and brush rolls.

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