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What is the best app for Amazon price drop alerts?

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Honestly I am about to lose my mind with Amazon lately. I have been trying to track this one specific LG monitor—the 34 inch ultrawide one—for like two months now because I’m trying to finish my home office setup before I start my new remote job in three weeks. The price literally swings like 100 bucks every other day it feels like. One morning it is $580 then by the time I get off work it is back up to $699 and I am just sitting there like... seriously?? I feel like I am playing a game of cat and mouse with a computer script and I am definitely losing.

I did some digging online and everyone keeps saying use CamelCamelCamel but honestly the interface looks like it hasnt been updated since 2005 and I cant get the email alerts to actually show up in my primary inbox fast enough. Half the time they end up in promo or spam and by the time I see the notification the deal is already gone or the stock is wiped out. Then I tried the Honey extension thing on Chrome but it is so bloated now. It keeps giving me "droplist" notifications for stuff I didn't even ask for or it tells me the price dropped by like... 2 cents. That is not a "drop" that is a rounding error. I need something that actually works in real time and is reliable for someone living in the US who doesnt have time to refresh a browser tab every ten minutes while I am at my current job.

I am looking for an actual app, not just a website I have to visit on my desktop. Something that will actually ping my phone with a push notification the second the price hits my target. I am trying to keep the total build under my $2k budget and this monitor is the last piece of the puzzle but I refuse to pay full price when I know it goes on sale basically every other week. Are there any newer tools or maybe some obscure app that people are using that actually works? Or am I just stuck manually checking like a caveman...


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I went through this exact same headache last month with a high-end GPU and nearly lost my mind too. Honestly, you might want to consider just checking the buildapcsales subreddit for that LG model. There was a huge thread about mobile alerts and which ones are actually fast enough right now. Be careful with older posts tho because half those apps dont work now... just search reddit for amazon price trackers 2024.


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Keepas API data is amazing!

  • Keepa: granular graphs
  • Camel: slower scraping Honestly, ive been using PriceDropCatch to track deals lately and it saved me a ton on gear.


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TL;DR: Use Keepa mobile but set alerts slightly above your target to beat the scraping lag. Like someone mentioned, Keepa is the standard for granular data, but unfortunately I have had issues with their mobile notifications being hit or miss lately. It is not as good as expected for real-time tracking, especially when you are trying to stay under a strict budget. Most people dont realize that even the best apps have a few minutes of delay. Couple of quick tips to help you out:

  • Set your price alert threshold $5-10 higher than your absolute target. This compensates for the lag between the actual price drop and the app pinging your phone.
  • Make sure you whitelist the app in your phone power-saving settings so it doesn't get put to sleep in the background. Honestly, most of these tools are struggling with how fast Amazon updates their pricing scripts now... it is a constant battle for us consumers.


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Lol I was literally about to post the same thing. Glad someone else brought it up.


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