Black Friday 2026 falls on November 27 — still more than three weeks out, which means none of this year’s actual doorbuster prices are live yet. Amazon typically doesn’t flip the switch on its biggest Echo, Fire TV, and house-brand discounts until Thanksgiving week itself. But the products that go on sale are predictable: the same handful of Amazon-owned and Amazon-favorite gadgets get cut every single year, and both their current prices and their past Black Friday lows are public record. Here’s what seven of them cost right now, plus what each one actually sold for the last time Black Friday arrived, so you can build a shortlist before the sale floor gets crowded.
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1. Amazon Echo Dot (5th Gen)
The Echo Dot is Amazon’s own loss-leader, and it shows: this is the device the company is most willing to gut on price to get an Alexa speaker into a new room of your house. The charcoal 5th-gen model (2022 release) lists for $49.99 today, with a slightly bigger speaker and better bass than the 4th-gen it replaced. It’s not changed in two sale cycles, which is part of the appeal — the hardware is a known quantity. In recent Black Friday weeks it has repeatedly fallen into the high-teens-to-low-$20s range, roughly half off list, making it one of the most reliably discounted single items Amazon sells all year.
2. Amazon Echo Show 5 (Newest Model)
If a speaker alone feels limited, the Echo Show 5 adds a 5.5-inch touchscreen for video calls, recipe scrolling, and photo frame duty when it’s idle — plus the same Alexa brain. Amazon currently lists the Glacier White version around $89.99. It’s a smaller, cheaper sibling to the Show 8 and Show 10, and historically it’s one of the deepest percentage cuts in Amazon’s entire device lineup come sale season: past Black Fridays have pushed this exact model down into the $35–$50 range, a discount that regularly beats 40–50% off list. If you’re choosing one smart display to try this year, this is the low-risk entry point.
3. Fire TV Stick 4K Max
Amazon’s streaming stick lineup got a refresh this fall, and the 4K Max — the higher-spec version with Wi-Fi 6E support for smoother 4K HDR streaming — currently lists at $59.99. It doesn’t wait for Black Friday to get cheap, either: Amazon already marked it down to $29.99 during October’s Prime Big Deal Days, essentially a 50% cut barely a month after launch. That’s a useful data point for Black Friday shoppers — it suggests Amazon is comfortable discounting this generation hard and early, so a similar or deeper price by November 27 is a reasonable bet, even though it isn’t guaranteed.
4. Anker 737 Power Bank (PowerCore 24K)
This is the power bank serious travelers already own: 24,000mAh of capacity, 140W of two-way USB-C Power Delivery (fast enough to charge a laptop), three ports, and a small built-in display showing exact charge level and wattage. Anker’s own site currently prices it at $109.99. It’s not a cheap accessory, but it’s also not an impulse buy — it’s the kind of gadget people specifically wait for Black Friday to pick up. Last Black Friday, deal trackers recorded it selling for roughly $74–$80 at Amazon, a discount of around 30%, which has made it one of Anker’s most-watched Black Friday items two years running.
5. Soundcore Space A40 Earbuds by Anker
Anker’s audio brand, Soundcore, has quietly become one of Amazon’s most-discounted earbud lines, and the Space A40 is its best-reviewed model: adaptive active noise cancellation, up to 50 hours of total battery life with the case, and a $79.99 list price that undercuts AirPods and Bose by a wide margin before any sale even starts. They rarely sell at full price for long — tracked deals have repeatedly brought them down into the $45–$50 range throughout the year, and Black Friday has historically been one of the two or three times they go even lower. For anyone comparison-shopping ANC earbuds under $100, this is the pair other budget options get measured against.
6. Kindle Paperwhite (16GB, 2024 Release)
The current Paperwhite generation, released in 2024, is the fastest Kindle Amazon has built: a 7-inch glare-free display, weeks of battery life, and a USB-C port that finally matches every other device in your bag. It lists for $159.99 in the 16GB configuration. Price trackers show its all-time low sitting at $124.99 — a discount that has shown up around major sale events including past Black Fridays, rather than being a one-off. For a gift that still feels substantial at full price, the Paperwhite is one of the few Amazon devices where even a modest markdown meaningfully changes the math, since it rarely dips as sharply in percentage terms as Echo or Fire TV hardware.
7. Blink Mini 2 Security Camera
Blink, another Amazon-owned brand, makes the cheapest entry point into home security on Amazon, and the Mini 2 is its current indoor/outdoor-rated model: 1080p HD with color night vision, a built-in spotlight, two-way audio, and motion alerts, all for a $39.99 list price. It’s one of the single most-discounted gadgets on Amazon outside of the Echo line — repeated deal events over the past year have pushed it down to $17.99–$19.99, more than 50% off, often as a two-pack. If you’ve been putting off adding a camera by the front door or garage, this is the device Amazon is most likely to make nearly free for a day in late November.
How to Actually Use This List Before November 27
None of the discounts above are live yet, and we haven’t guessed at a specific Black Friday 2026 price for anything on this list — only reported what each product costs today and what it’s verifiably sold for in past sale cycles. The practical move is to add these to an Amazon wishlist or cart now, check prices weekly through November, and watch for Amazon’s own “early Black Friday deals” push, which usually starts the second week of November and runs discounts in waves rather than dropping everything at once on the 27th itself. Of this group, Echo devices and Blink cameras have the longest track record of deep, predictable cuts; the Anker power bank and Kindle tend to move less dramatically but still meaningfully. Either way, knowing today’s real price is what makes a Black Friday markdown easy to recognize — and easy to tell apart from a sale that isn’t actually one.
