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Prime Day is a great day to encourage people to use tools like CamelCamelCamel or Keepa to see if the "deals" are actually deals.
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Unfortunately camel^3 and others are easily gamed now by "on-page coupons" which keep the price the same or lower normally and can trick the price tracker into thinking it's a good deal when it's actually just the normal price.

This video has a good summary at the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MsndlciGWA


Good info, I'm surprised that haven't figured out how to account for coupons. Seems very feasible, especially considering the army of people with extensions installed.

Maybe the reason is that I live in the EU, but my Amazon app has the price history right in it. It’s both useful and entertaining.

Iirc the built in history doesn't take into account games like having a perennial 40% off coupon that gets disabled right when a "sale" starts

It's available in the US as well. It's replaced my usage of Camel^3.

I used to then switched to the amazon built in price tracker, then set alerts or auto buy below the lowest price it's been in the last year when I Really want something but don't need it immediately...

A sweater I liked that dropped to $19 just triggered the auto buy during this prime day sale...


Amazon is still a good deal in my country because they have competition that's kicking their ass.

Amazon UK and US now have a Price History button on products. It’s not quite as good as camel used to be, but it’s a convenient.

I'm totally the kind of person who loves sales, scans clearance racks regularly, and is always looking for deals but... Prime Day is the definition of "nothingburger". I mean, Kindle is on sale, Fire tablets are on sale. The things that are always on sale are on sale. It's an embarassment that the media covers Prime Day at all.



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