What changed
Amazon Haul's Haul-iday deals event: $1 flash deals all week, $0.11 deals on Nov 10 and 11, items as low as a penny in flash sales, more than 1 million items under $5 and 500,000 under $3
When
November 9 to 14, 2026, then daily and weekly deal drops through November and December; Black Friday is November 27, Cyber Monday November 30
Who it affects
US shoppers in the Amazon app and at amazon.com/haul; brands selling under $20 items on Amazon.com now share search results with Haul tiles
What to do
Search your top 20 keywords this week, log where Haul tiles appear, and move under $10 singles into multipacks before Black Friday

Key takeaways

  • Amazon's Haul-iday sale runs November 9 to 14, 2026 with $1 flash deals and $0.11 deals on November 10 and 11, and Amazon says Haul now carries more than 10 million items with purchases up nearly 350% year over year.
  • Haul tiles now appear inside regular Amazon search results, so the price anchor on generic under $15 keywords moves to $1 to $3 during the holiday window.
  • Hold your margin floor, move under $10 singles into multipacks, and track conversion share by keyword rather than cutting price toward the Haul tile.

Amazon Haul-iday and the holiday calendar, 2026

  1. Haul-iday deals event opens, $1 flash deals start

  2. Exclusive $0.11 deals across popular categories

  3. Event closes; daily and weekly Haul drops continue

  4. Black Friday on Amazon.com

  5. Cyber Monday

What Amazon launched on November 9

Amazon's announcement, published on aboutamazon.com on November 9, 2026, frames the event as the start of the holiday season for Amazon Haul, the storefront it opened in November 2024 for items priced at $20 or less. The mechanics are simple. From November 9 through November 14, $1 flash deals drop through the week across fashion, beauty, home, electronics and toys. On November 10 and 11 Amazon adds what it calls exclusive $0.11 deals, and it says some items fall as low as a penny during flash sales. After the 14th, Amazon says deal drops continue with daily and weekly refreshes through November and December, covering stocking stuffers, holiday decor, seasonal apparel and white elephant gifts.

The size claims are the real news. Amazon says Haul now lists more than 10 million products, the majority under $10, more than a million under $5 and more than half a million under $3. It also says Haul selection has grown more than 25 times in two years and that customer purchases grew nearly 350% year over year. David Forsythe, vice president of North America Seller Business, said in the release that "Amazon Haul is another way we're making holiday shopping more affordable." The title matters: Haul sits inside the seller business, not Amazon's own retail arm, so these are third party offers competing in the same store as yours.

Amazon Haul by Amazon's own numbers, November 9, 2026

10M+products listed
1M+items under $5
500K+items under $3
350%purchase growth, year over year
Source: Amazon, aboutamazon.com, November 9, 2026

How Haul reaches shoppers now

Haul started as a separate corner of the app that shoppers had to find on purpose. The November 9 release describes a different setup. Haul products now surface inside regular Amazon search results, Haul has a personalised feed, and Amazon says it has expanded Haul's integration with Amazon Live. Shoppers reach the store by searching Haul, from the main menu, or at amazon.com/haul. The buying rules stay the same: free delivery on orders of $25 or more, 5% off orders over $50, 10% off orders over $75, free returns within 15 days on eligible purchases over $3, and the A-to-z Guarantee on every item. Delivery is the trade-off. Marketplace Pulse noted in March that Haul product pages promised 75% of orders delivered within 11 days, against one or two days for most Prime offers.

For a brand, the search result integration is the part to read twice. A shopper typing a generic phrase such as phone case or hair clips can now see a $2 Haul tile in the same grid as a $14 Prime listing, with no detour to a separate storefront. Our Amazon Haul guide covers how the storefront works and who Amazon lets sell there; this post is about what changes for everyone else during the busiest four weeks of the year.

So what: the price anchor moves into your search results

The money question is not whether Haul takes a sale from you on a given day. It is what a $1 or $0.11 tile does to the price a shopper thinks is normal. Haul is still small next to its rivals: Marketplace Pulse estimated in March 2026 that Haul generates about $2 billion a year in gross merchandise volume from 3,287 US sellers, against roughly $30 billion for Temu and $18 billion for Shein in the US. But Haul is the only one of the three that sits inside Amazon search, and Amazon's 350% purchase growth figure says shoppers are using it. Marketplace Pulse also found that 97.5% of Haul sellers averaging under $10 an item operate from China or Hong Kong, and that the under $10 cohort averaged about $498,000 a year each in revenue, so these are volume sellers built for thin margins.

Here is the plain math, with illustrative numbers. Take a brand accessory listed at $12 with a landed cost of $3.20, FBA and referral fees of about $5.10 and a contribution of $3.70 a unit before ads. A Haul tile for a similar looking item at $2.50 appears on the same results page during the week of November 9. If the brand's conversion rate on that keyword slips from 12% to 10.5% because a slice of price shoppers trade down, a listing doing 1,000 clicks a day loses 15 orders and about $55 of daily contribution, or roughly $390 across the seven day event. That is survivable. What is not survivable is the common reaction: cutting price toward the Haul tile. Dropping the same product to $8.99 to "stay competitive" costs $3.01 a unit on every one of the remaining orders, about $316 a day on 105 orders, nearly six times the loss from the lower conversion rate. The data to watch is conversion share by keyword, not price rank. Our Amazon pricing strategy guide walks through the margin floor calculation.

Who wins against a $1 deal

Haul's weaknesses are written into Amazon's own terms. Delivery takes days, not hours. Returns are only free above $3 and only within 15 days. Items are capped at $20, so anything built for repeat purchase, gifting above that line, or a quality signal Haul cannot offer is outside its reach. Brands that lean on fast delivery badges, review counts, A+ content and multipacks have historically kept share against direct from China storefronts; the pattern we saw when Temu opened to US sellers was the same. The brands that struggle are those selling unbranded, single unit, under $10 items on generic keywords where the shopper has nothing to compare but price.

  • Delivery speed: Prime one or two day badges sit beside Haul tiles that promise roughly 11 days.
  • Pack size: a 3 pack at $14.99 is not compared against a $1.50 single in the same way a $4.99 single is.
  • Reviews and brand name: Haul listings are new and mostly unbranded; a 4.6 star listing with 8,000 ratings is a different product in the shopper's mind.
  • Gifting cues: Amazon is pushing Haul for stocking stuffers and white elephant gifts; items positioned as the main gift are less exposed.

What sellers should do this week

Five checks, each with an owner and a metric, so the work is done before Black Friday on November 27 rather than after.

  • Marketing lead: search your 20 highest traffic keywords in the Amazon app and on desktop, logged in and logged out, and record on which pages Haul tiles appear and at what price. Metric: share of page one results that are Haul offers, rechecked weekly through December.
  • Analyst: in Brand Analytics, pull Search Query Performance for the week of November 9 to 15 against the prior week for every ASIN priced under $15. Metric: your conversion share on each query; a drop with flat impressions is the Haul signal, a drop with falling impressions is something else.
  • Pricing owner: write the margin floor for every under $15 ASIN now (landed cost plus fees plus target contribution) and lock it in your repricer or in SpiderOS. Metric: zero price changes below the floor during the event.
  • Catalog owner: for any single unit item under $10, build or promote a multipack or bundle variation so the parent's lead offer sits above the Haul band. Metric: share of units sold through the multipack by December 1.
  • Ads manager: keep Sponsored Products defence on your brand terms and your top three ASIN pages, and cut bids on generic, under $10 head terms where Haul tiles now show on page one. Metric: ACoS on branded versus generic campaigns, reviewed every two days through November 14.
  • Content owner: make sure every listing under $20 shows the delivery badge, a lifestyle main image set and the rating count prominently; these are the three things Haul tiles cannot match. Metric: unit session percentage on the updated ASINs versus the two weeks before.

Before Black Friday: the Haul exposure check

  • Log Haul tiles on your top 20 keywords, app and desktop
  • Pull Search Query Performance for Nov 9 to 15 vs prior week
  • Write and lock the margin floor on every under $15 ASIN
  • Build a multipack lead offer for under $10 singles
  • Cut generic head term bids where Haul shows on page one
  • Show delivery badge, rating count and lifestyle images

When this does not apply

If your lowest price point is above $20, Haul cannot list a comparable item and this is a watching brief, not an action list. Regulated categories such as supplements, topical skincare and children's products carry compliance requirements that keep most Haul sellers out, and heavy or bulky goods make no sense at an 11 day shipping promise. Brands outside the US are unaffected unless they also sell on Amazon.com, since Amazon's announcement covers the US store only. And if your Black Friday deals are already submitted and your inventory is in place, the price floor exercise matters more than any change to the deals themselves: do not pull a Lightning Deal to chase a $1 tile.

Where PPC Spider helps

PPC Spider manages Amazon ads and listings for brands that sell against low price competition every day. SpiderOS sets each product's target ACoS from its margin after fees, so a holiday price war shows up as a margin alert rather than a surprise at month end, and the search term monitor flags when a generic keyword's conversion share falls while impressions hold. If you want a second pair of eyes on your under $15 catalogue before Black Friday, book a free Amazon audit; plans and pricing are on the agency pricing page. More stories like this are on our ecommerce marketplace news channel.

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