How to shop like a pro during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
However, if you want to be among the first people to spot price drops on the products you’re interested in, you’ll want to get a head start on your Black Friday and Cyber Monday game plan.
Key points
- | Screenshot: Keepa" data-portal-copyright="Screenshot: Keepa" /> Keepa Like CamelCamelCamel, Keepa is another handy tool for tracking product prices on Amazon.
- Thankfully, we have a few suggestions for scouting early sales at your favorite retailers, finding the right price-tracking tool, and setting up email alerts to ensure you don’t miss rare discounts at Amazon and elsewhere.
- All of them are free to use, and once you’ve added the products you’re interested in keeping an eye on, you can rest easy knowing that you don’t need to take any action until it comes time to make a purchase.
Despite Amazon and other retailers filling the summer and fall months with more sales than ever before, Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping days of the year.
Additional details
- While it doesn’t have a browser extension (yet), its functionality is similar to CamelCamelCamel in that you can set price alerts and email notifications, so you’ll always know when your desired price threshold for a particular product is met.
- Unlike CamelCamelCamel, however, you don’t necessarily need to create an account to track prices with Keepa; just install the appropriate browser extension for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, or Opera, and Keepa will automatically add a price history graph to supported product listings.
- Each can help you track deals at various retailers — including Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Target — but they each do so differently and come with their own set of advantages / disadvantages.
- Additionally, we suggest installing the site’s browser extension, The Camelizer, which works with Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge.
- You can use the extension’s price graph to determine what price is likely to happen based on historical data, but it’s always a shot in the dark.
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