I've been stalking this one vintage mushroom lamp on Etsy for like three weeks now and honestly it is driving me a little crazy. I’m currently redoing my home office here in Chicago and I have a really strict $350 budget for the lighting part of the project. Last Tuesday the seller actually dropped the price by 20% for a flash sale but I didn't see the notification until I logged in that night and by then someone else had already snagged it. It was honestly devastating lol. So now I found a similar one from a different shop but I really dont want to miss the window if they decide to run a promotion or clear out stock again.

Im trying to figure out the best way to get an actual alert the second the price changes because I cant keep checking manually. Right now Im looking at two main ways to do this:

• Using the built-in Etsy favorites list which is supposed to send alerts but it is so buggy and usually sends me random junk I dont care about instead of the actual price drop info.
• Using a third-party tracker like Karma or Visualping to monitor the specific URL.

The issue with the trackers is I dont know if they play nice with Etsy's layout or if they'll just break the moment a seller updates the description. I really need to have this lamp by the end of next month before my sister comes to visit for her birthday and I'm worried if I wait too long the price will go up instead of down. Has anyone had better luck with one over the other for small shops? Or is there some secret third option I'm missing that works better for individual listings? I just want something that wont fail me like the official app did last time...