The Deal Edit
Checking a product page every few days to see if the price moved is a bad use of your time, and it doesn't even work reliably — you'll miss the drop if it happens on a day you don't check. The fix is to make something else do the watching.
Browser extensions that track price history
CamelCamelCamel and Keepa both track Amazon prices over time and can alert you the moment something you're watching drops below a price you set. The chart is the useful part — it shows you whether a "sale" price is actually low for that item, or just a return to normal after an inflated list price.
The retailer's own "notify me"
A lot of sites will email you the moment a specific item drops in price or comes back in stock — look for a bell icon or a "notify me" link near the price, especially on items that are already sold out. It's free, and it's the most direct signal you'll get, straight from the source.
Google Shopping's price tracking
If you search a product through Google Shopping and save it, Google will track the price across multiple retailers and can notify you when it drops anywhere, not just on the one site you happened to check.
Or skip the setup entirely
This is the whole reason this site exists: every deal here is already being tracked against 90 days of real price history, and it only shows up once the price has actually dropped — not when a retailer says it has. You don't need to set up an alert for something that's already been watched for you.
The short version: don't check prices manually — pick one or two tools to watch for you, and trust a drop only once you can see it against real history, not just a sticker.
