Anyone use an Amazon price tracker?

[masraum]

Anyone use one? I haven't looked too hard, but I have a search queued up and will do some research. Sometimes prices on Amazon can vary A LOT. At times prices can go down 25-75% on certain items. It's nice to be able to order those (if you want/need them) when that happens.

[astrochex]

My wife uses camelcamelcamel.com to price track for Amazon.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by astrochex

My wife uses camelcamelcamel.com to price track for Amazon.

And she likes it, I guess?

[Seahawk]

Yesterday was a very interestiing day for me and I learned a lot about retail I had forgotten.

Omega started running wonky while mowing yesterday.

I have some surgeries coming up and I decided to go get a Casio watch and send the Omega in. The light and timing fnction os excellent of pre-op/post-op meds, etc.

Sure.

I needed the watch yesterday or I would, as I always do, order online. I have not be in anything other than a FAPS on HW/feed store much at all in the past three/four years.

How hard can this be? First stop, the Catch-All local HW store. Watches? Nope.Walgreens, Nope. CVS, Nope.

I decide to CALL Walmart. Yes do but our selection isn't great.

Very helpful young man gets me to the watch section and the $31 watch I am looking for. He tells me WM is getting out of a lot of the of a lot of markets like cheap watches because they just don't sell.

Amazon hammers them in certain areas. Retail numbers are godlike, BTW, and tracked like Secretariat.

I have zippy anngst with Wally, I would just prefer never do it again.

[GH85Carrera]

When we were first getting our company up and running, I was buying a lot of parts and pieces to upgrade computers, a printer, reams of paper, and lots of hard drives. Amazon sent me an email, and they asked if I was interested in a business account. I had to give them the company W-9 and I signed up and it is all free, no membership fee. No video or music streaming, just shopping.

My wife sometimes looks up an item we need, and gets a price on her regular Amazon account, and sends me a link to that item. My business prices is sometimes lower by a decent percentage. Sometime no difference in price.

It is weird how some items I buy regularly, like sunscreen can have huge prices variation, even when I use the buy it again option. It has gone up a lot, or back a lot cheaper. Just strange.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

It is weird how some items I buy regularly, like sunscreen can have huge prices variation, even when I use the buy it again option. It has gone up a lot, or back a lot cheaper. Just strange.

Yeah, Amazon spams me with the business account emails. We're not a business, so no go.

But yes, prices can vary A LOT from time to time. That's why when I check "buy it again" I also do a regular search to see if I can find another option. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I also have noticed that if I stick an item in the cart and the missus says "don't order yet, I want to add a couple of things," if it sits like that for 2-3 days, the price often goes up by a few cents. Occasionally, the price will drop by a bit. I have no double that Amazon has algorithms that figure "item has been in his cart for X amount of time, drop the price a bit to see if he buys it" and then after a bit more "still in his cart, he's probably going to buy it eventually, just jack the price up a few cents from when he added it.

With millions of customers and millions and millions of orders, I suspect they make quite a bit extra by changing the prices a few cents here and there. If the prices changes a lot, I may wait until it goes back down to a more normal price.

And those changes (sometimes huge) are why I'm curious about a price tracker.

We no longer live near a Whole Foods, so some times, certain items, we'll get from Amazon. Sometimes it's $10 from Amazon vs $13 in store. Sometimes an item will be $18 on Amazon vs $16 in store. Just yesterday, I saw an item that we needed, in store $17, from Amazon $19, slightly different item (same roast, different flavor of coffee) on Amazon for $7 (and sold by Amazon). So we bought a 6 at that price. The vacuum sealed bags will stay good in the cupboard, I'm pretty sure, at least, good enough at that price.

[GH85Carrera]

One of the weirdest price jumps was for some toothpaste that our local grocery store stopped carrying. I am not going to try various other stores looking for it, so I went to Amazon and typical it was a two tubes at a time. I eventually used it up, and searched for my old orders, and selects order it again. I went to my shopping cart and my finger was over the mouse button and I looked and the price was $55.00. Full stop, it was just a few bucks before, and now (middle of Covid) it is 55? Nope not gonna do it. I changed to another brand and never looked back.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by masraum

And she likes it, I guess?

Yes. I’m afraid to see all the items she has on her list.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by astrochex

Yes. I’m afraid to see all the items she has on her list.

ROFLMAO!

Good to know.