Amazon discounted Dewalt’s most powerful 20V Max XR cordless hammer drill kit for Prime Day, from $349 to $234.20, and the price then dropped to $231.68.
The next-best price I could find was $299.
I think that ~$234 was a great price for what you get – a powerful and top-featured brushless hammer drill, fast charger, and tabless cell PowerPack battery.
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Well, not enough people bought one – I’m guessing – because Amazon knocked a little bit more ($2.52) off the price.
Extra savings is extra savings. It’s unclear how long they’ll sell the cordless hammer drill kit at this price.
Update 7/26/25: It has been 2 weeks and Amazon still has this for $231.68, but it looks like they’re finally running out of stock.
Get your order in while you can. We don’t know if the Dewalt drill kit will sell out or if the price will bounce back to $299 or its full list price of $349.
Read more about this deal: Dewalt’s Most Powerful Cordless Drill is on Sale for a Limited Time.
I know what some of you might be thinking – “what can I buy with just 2 dollars and 52 cents compared to the Prime Day deal price?” Home Depot has the Stanley 4-in-1 technician screwdriver for $2.49 with free shipping. Ignoring sales tax, that’s one thing you get with the additional savings.
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Nathan
I have that drill and will attest to it being strong. And that was with a 6ah xr battery not the new stuff.
eddiesky
I replaced my older 1/2″ DeWalt Hammer drill/driver with this on Stuart’s recommendation. I’ll pass the older 1/2″ down to a friend in need (and into the cult of Dewalt! Muuhahahahaha!)
MM
Sometimes I wonder about minor price adjustments on Amazon–are they perhaps a method of gaming the “cart notification” system to send price-change notifications to customers as a form of advertising? I get the feeling it’s not really about the additional small discount but it’s really more about poking the customer and reminding them about the deal.
I have many items ‘saved for later’ in my Amazon cart. A lot of them are things I’m interested in purchasing but not at full price, so I keep them there so I can watch for deals. I’ve noticed a pattern with several items: every day there will be a notification about a (minor) price drop. After several days of this the price will go up by a few dollars, at which point the price drop cycle starts again, with none of the changes being significant %-wise. It makes me think the point is just to send the price change notification messages?
Nathan
I could see that. 1000 people have them on cart but they haven’t committed let’s tell them it’s 2 dollars cheaper and get those lazy shots to buy
Stuart
I’ve come to see it as akin to the “you left something in your cart” emails, or the inaccurate “new lower price on…” where the price is never any lower.
I actually appreciate Amazon’s approach as it’s less intrusive. And sometimes there are appreciable savings.
MM
Sometimes the savings are significant. And other constant price fluctuations do have an explanation. Some of the items I have saved are imports coming from Amazon Germany or from Japan. Their prices change every day but only by a few cents on products costing well over a hundred dollars. I chalk that up to currency exchange rate fluctuations.
But I think that some sellers change prices not even enough to matter in terms of % discount, but simply to cause the notification, just like those “you left something in your cart” Emails you mentioned.
Stuart
This doesn’t seem like a fluctuating price. Sometimes reductions are strategic and it seems pricing will be reduced to sell greater numbers.
Sometimes they will lower pricing in steps and then the price will jump back up once sales numbers are met.
This type of product tends to be priced-fixed. There’s no confident prediction we can make about where the price will go next, if at all.
Amazon’s pricing tends to be controlled by a cold algorithm. There are patterns, but enough random contradictions were it’s hard to understand why we’re seeing certain behaviors.
Sometimes listings are micro-managed by brands and sellers. If I post about something from a certain brand that typically sees low sales volume, they might increase it by 10% to 20% after a short time. Other times there are promo pricing schedules with start and end dates that are not advertised.
Scotty.
If I open your link in browser without logging into my account I see price of $230 but when I open it in the Amazon app I then see the $231.68 price.
Stuart
3rd party sellers have it for a little less. The Amazon direct price is still $231 and change.
Julian Tracy
No blue writing on the battery, are we sure it’s the new tech style battery, or just a new color scheme on the old tech 8amp?
Stuart
PowerPack 8Ah batteries have tabless Li-ion cells – and as per the Amazon images of the kit contents, this kit comes with the DCB2108 XR PowerPack 8Ah battery.
Dewalt PowerStack pouch cell batteries have blue lines to denote the non-cylindrical “stacked” battery form factor.
Dewalt XR batteries are now ONLY either pouch-cell or tabless. https://toolguyd.com/dewalt-xr-battery-comparison/
https://toolguyd.com/dewalt-xr-battery-meaning/
The old 8Ah have a plainer appearance – see it via Lowe’s link.
Clay
Broke down and snagged one.
Kingsley
When I click on the link in the UK its $554, crazy price difference in the UK and we have lower tariffs with China.
razl
Like Clay, broke down and snagged one. Do not have an immediate need but am certain it will come in handy and will be happy I have it when the time comes. Thanks Stuart!