It then goes out and scouts the Web anywhere from one week to when you tell it you're no longer interested. Yotify works much the same way Trackle does, by letting you set up an alert for a specific product, or genre of products. WishRadar then tracks those items and will let you know if there are price changes, or if the prices come down to what you've set. If you're a registered Amazon user, you can simply add items you find to your wish list. It's not the prettiest service of the bunch but it does a great job, and lets you manage your alerts on a single page and subscribe to alerts in an RSS feed if you don't feel like junking up your e-mail in-box or mobile phone. You set the price and it will send you both an e-mail and an SMS alert when it hits that price. Waitable is a price watcher that works with both bar codes and product pages. It also has a special filter that can look for the same items on Craigslist in case you want to skip retail entirely. It's an alerts service where you can have it keep a lookout for price drops, deals, and reviews on new products. Trackle is one of the newest services on this list, having just launched in early February. ![]() Note that you must be registered with the site to use this feature. Instead it will keep an eye on new forum threads and send you an e-mail or private message. Unlike some of the other tools though, it won't scour the entire Internet to find out when something goes on sale. Slickdeals, like Fatwallet is mainly a deals forum. Besides its main site there's a bookmarklet you can add to your browser to begin watching a price from any site you're on. It then sends you an e-mail if the price goes down. There's no sign-up, you just give the site the product page URL (or URLs as a group) and your e-mail address. ShoppingNotes is one of the simplest tools on this list. ![]() This is one of the better ways to make sure you don't head off to some sale only to find everything is three sizes too big or small. With both sites you give it your sizes and specific brands you like and it will give you the heads up when items in that size go on sale. Its sister site Shop It To Me Running also does specific shoe brands and sides. Shop It To Me is the one service on this list that's dedicated specifically to clothes. 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. Amazon Price Watch may sound like it's only prices, but it actually works with around 100 online retailers.
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