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deals at Spoot: Spotted Early is a file of 7 stories. The newest of them: “Home Depot Slashed Milwaukee Tool Prices So Low It Feels Like a Glitch”, “Two Anker 45W chargers for under fifty bucks sounds like a dare”, and “Amazon's Prime Day price cuts on DeWalt tools are a garage-sized trap”. Home Depot just slashed Milwaukee Tool prices so deep it feels like a glitch in the matrix. Two Anker 45W chargers for under fifty bucks sounds like a dare. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every deals story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
Home Depot Slashed Milwaukee Tool Prices So Low It Feels Like a Glitch
Home Depot just slashed Milwaukee Tool prices so deep it feels like a glitch in the matrix. The retailer is running a series of promotions that cut prices to the bone and introduce BOGO deals you almost don't trust. I had to refresh the page twice to make sure my eyes weren't making up numbers. This is the kind of sale that makes you wonder if someone accidentally hit "publish" on the wrong spreadsheet, and then you click "add to cart" before they fix it. It is aggressively, unapologetically good. If you have been waiting for a reason to upgrade your kit, this is the razor clam hiding in the fine print that everyone else scrolled past.
Two Anker 45W chargers for under fifty bucks sounds like a dare
Two Anker 45W chargers for under fifty bucks sounds like a dare. Anker's latest single-port USB-C charger packs 45W, foldable prongs, and a front-facing smart display that shows charge level and power flow at a glance. Normally $39.99, it's down to $23.99 during Amazon's October sale, which means you can grab two for less than what one usually costs. That's the kind of math I can get behind. The deal runs until 3 AM ET on October 8th, 2026, so this window is narrow and fast. If you've been circling back on a compact travel charger that actually tells you what it's doing, this is the razor clam. Also worth a look: our roundup of Prime Day's cheap seat, six things under $25 that don't suck. Stay spooty.
Amazon's Prime Day price cuts on DeWalt tools are a garage-sized trap
Amazon just dangled a stack of DeWalt tools in front of your garage door and whispered *come on, you know you want to*. And sure, the Prime Day price cuts are real, the kind of discounts that make a cordless hammer drill feel like a necessary life upgrade, even if the most ambitious project you've got planned is hanging a single shelf. The trap isn't the price. It's the question nobody asks until after checkout: *what does your garage actually need?* Spoot has been poking around the October sales, and we found that the same impulse buying energy applies to smaller things too, like the six surprisingly useful items under $25 we rounded up in "Prime Day's cheap seat." Sometimes the best deal is the one you didn't have to justify to your spouse.
Prime Day's cheap seat: six things under $25 that don't suck
You could spend a Prime Day budget on one big thing, or you could let six smaller ones burrow into your life for under $25 total. This roundup sniffs out the deals that actually deliver: JLab Go Air Pop earbuds with a charging case that doubles as a plug, an Anker 45W charger that shows you its power flow like a tiny dashboard, and a LifeStraw that filters microplastics from whatever questionable water you find. The Best Picture winner *Everything Everywhere All At Once* on 4K Blu-ray for twelve bucks? That's the kind of chaos we can get behind. Fewer picks this year because everything costs more, which stinks, but the ones here earn their spot. If you're hunting bigger prey, our robot vacuum roundup shows how Prime Day scrubs prices there too.
Amazon's October sale nibbles Apple prices without asking if you really need a new iPad
Amazon's October Big Deal Days are nibbling Apple prices, and the M5 MacBook Air at $1,099 is the thing I keep tab open on. Double the base storage, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, it's the spec-sheet razor clam that makes the $200 discount feel like a win instead of a trap. But the 15-inch version also lands at $1,299, and that's where my focus drifts. If your sights are set beyond Cupertino, the main roundup has 100+ deals and we're chasing price matches as they appear. Some of this is Prime-only, but other retailers are biting back. Meanwhile, over at our AirPods Pro 3 coverage, I dug into why $179 is the number that actually matters this week. Stay spooty.
Ace Hardware's big-ticket tool bundles just got a lot easier on the wallet
Ace Hardware just made the smartest move a tool aisle can make: it slashed the price on big-ticket bundles until your wallet stops wheezing. This is the kind of deal that turns a bare garage into a full ecosystem, and it's not buried in fine print. The bundles cover the heavy hitters, the drills and drivers and saws that actually do the work, and they're priced like Ace wants you to stop window-shopping online. We like that energy. It's a rare chance to grab a cohesive setup without the usual retail tax, and for anyone who's been nursing a mismatched collection of hand-me-downs, this is the nudge. If you're already circling the hardware aisle, you might also enjoy our piece on the Blackjaw, a multitool that skips the pliers entirely.
Amazon's October Prime Day leaks early, and it's already hunting for deals
October Prime Day hasn't even waited for October. Amazon's already letting some Prime Big Deal Day discounts loose on its own hardware, plus a heap of other popular stuff, all ahead of the October 6th, 3AM ET kickoff that runs through the 8th. That means you can start chipping away at holiday shopping before the seasonal chaos fully descends, and since these deals often circle back for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it's a decent sneak peek at what's coming. The Ring Battery Doorbell 2K at $39.99 is a proper score, though that built-in battery means you'll be unclipping it for USB-C charges. The Ecovacs Deebot X12 OmniCyclone is a beast of a robovac with a dock that washes its mop with heated, pressurized water.