For some reason Amazon almost never puts the Kindle Oasis on sale, even though other Kindles and Amazon devices are regularly discounted.
But there is a way to get the latest generation Kindle Oasis 3, which is the only Kindle with the option to use a warm frontlight, for $40 less than the regular $249 list price.
Amazon currently has the 8GB Kindle Oasis available refurbished starting at $209 with free shipping. The 32GB model is $239, and it’s available in both silver and gold.
Amazon’s certified refurbished Kindles are tested to work and look like new and they come with the same 1-year warranty as new Kindles so they’re usually a pretty safe bet.
Another way to get a Kindle Oasis at a discount is to take advantage of Amazon’s Kindle trade-in offer that takes 20% off the price of a new Kindle (I traded in an old piece of junk that I got for like $10 on eBay). The trade-in device doesn’t even have to work to get the discount; even if it’s broken they’ll give you a $5 credit for it.
They don’t allow trade-ins on refurbished Kindles, however, just new ones. Either way both options are a good way to avoid paying full price for the Kindle Oasis.
Just bought one today. And I took advantage of their monthly installment plan. To add, I have the newest Paperwhite but heard that the “upgrade” to Oasis was worth it. I can’t wait to see for myself.
It’s a super premium experience I used to own one before it had a warm light. The only reason why I don’t own one currently is because I don’t like Amazon’s privacy policy basically they spy on almost everything you do on the device. With my Kobo I can hack it to not register with kobo and to block google analytics through via SQL injection commands. So , basically , my kobo does not spy on me.