![]() You'll need to register with the service to get alerts though. Just like all the others you just tell it the products you want to keep an eye on and it sends you an e-mail when it goes on sale. Savvy Circle has one of the longest lists of support stores in this bunch. ![]() Once users begin tracking an item with the service Price Pinx makes it public, and puts some of the biggest sales on its front page, making it good for deal hunting. However, most will find it useful for tracking public price drops. Price Pinx, like most other services on this list, lets you drop in a URL to set up a price alert. One thing to note is that you must be registered with PriceGrabber to use this tool, which many other services on this list don't require. You can also add any item to this list from its special PriceGrabber product page. To add items you simply search for them through PriceGrabber's database. PriceGrabber's claim to fame is that it does the comparison shopping for you, but it's also got a robust alert tool that will let you know when an item's price fluctuates. Considering the tool only checks for price changes once every 18 hours it may not be the fastest, most real-time option, but it's one of the simpler options that won't clog up your e-mail in-box. You can monitor all your alerts in one list, and it gives you a real-time pop-up in the corner of your screen when it's time to alert you. PriceDrop is an extension that users install in their browser to be alerted when the price of a product from goes down. Like PriceGrabber you must be a registered user of the site to make use of this feature. However, each product on the site can be watched to see if it drops below whatever price threshold you set. One of Apnoti's strengths is that it refreshes its price index "continuously" so you can be notified when a price drops usually within the hour.īeatThat is primarily a deals site that lets users add deals they've found in return for cash. ![]() You can use it either by dropping in the Amazon product link and your e-mail address or installing a tool bar that adds the option to watch a price to. Along with price-watching tools, it's also got a deals finder and a "filler items" tool that will help you find low-priced items to add to your Amazon order to get free shipping.Īpnoti watches Amazon for price drops. You can have it watch the price of something by dropping its link into the service's Web form, or by installing a browser add-on that lets you start tracking from the retailer's site. StreetPrices also offered price graphs, now showing the daily high and low price for each item, with data going back as far as two years.Īlso available were an AIM bot (streetpricesbot), and price comparison widgets that publishers could put on their web pages.Amazon Price Watch may sound like it's only prices, but it actually works with around 100 online retailers. Major categories like digital cameras and TVs let users "search by specs". StreetPrices offered comparison shopping with merchant ratings and tax/shipping calculation. They focused primarily on digital cameras, consumer electronics, and computer components like disk drives and RAM, with some coverage of other shopping categories. StreetPrices was the first site to offer price graphs and price alerts (both released by December 1998), and was listed in the Consumer Reports Buying Guide every year in which they listed price comparison services by name. StreetPrices was founded in October 1997, making it the third price comparison service website, behind PriceWatch (1995) and ComputerESP/uVision (1996).
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