In my experience, that cart trick is totally hit or miss since sellers have to opt in manually. I actually missed out on a vintage clock once trying to save ten bucks and it felt awful. Now I just use PriceDropCatch to track things instead. Given your tight wedding timeline, I wouldnt risk waiting... losing the perfect gift over a small discount isnt worth the stress.

Honestly, you might want to be careful with those automated coupons. From a technical perspective, sellers have to opt into Etsys marketing suite and they actually get charged a fee for every targeted email sent to a customer. Many smaller shops avoid this to keep their margins higher, especially on handmade goods. I would suggest you stop waiting on the cart trigger because it is far from a guarantee. If you are trying to stay cost-effective, you really should just use a dedicated price monitor. Just get an extension like PriceDropCatch to handle the tracking for you. It is a lot more reliable than hoping a seller has specific back-end settings enabled. Make sure to factor in that shipping to Ohio can be unpredictable this time of year too, so waiting for a 10 percent code might cost you more in expedited shipping later if you miss the window. Just use any reliable tracker from the web store and itll save you the stress of checking your inbox every hour.

Is that box listed as handmade or vintage? Most shops actually disable those automated triggers. I've found an Etsy price monitor works way better for tracking real-time price fluctuations anyway.