Prime Days are over and you may be a little fed up with shopping, but right now knowledge is the most valuable thing how to track the best Amazon discounts… on the products you care about. And if you can wait to buy, isn’t it worth saving a little? Oh well.

As you probably know if you are a regular reader, on MC already on their big days, but also every week in our Red Friday section, we echo the best deals from sites like Amazon or PcComponentes. Stop by it from time to time because what we collect there is a selection with the best offers of the week. The same thing happens with Prime Days or PcDays: we only share the most significant discounts.

However, at MC we talk about technology and consequently the products we include in these types of articles are what they are. For this reason, and because your interest may revolve around very specific products, it’s worth trying to get the best discounts yourself and watch the price differences on the items that really interest you. There is no better tool for this than…

Camelcamelcamel, your Amazon price tracker

It could have a shorter name, but it’s the least important camel camelAmazon’s veteran price comparison service which, if used well, can help you save on specific products… and avoid the fraudulent discounts that also exist, especially for campaigns like Prime Days, Black Friday, etc.

Camelcamelcamel: price history

The first interesting feature of Camelcamelcamel and its leitmotif origin is accurate price history, which can be used to track all the price variations a product has had since it arrived on Amazon or since it was tracked, which may not always match. It will always depend on the product itself. Simply enter the website and enter the name or URL of the product in the search engine.

Let’s take a product as an example to see what Camelcamelcamel has to offer.

Continuing with the price history, this is a very interesting feature, because Amazon only provides this information a month in advance, so there are sellers who increase the price carefully, so that when the sale period comes, they seem to offer a good discount. This feature is also used to get an idea of ​​the evolution of the price of the product and evaluate whether it is worth waiting for something to drop or how much it could do.

In addition to viewing the product’s price history, this feature allows you to do so whether it is oa a product sold by Amazon, sold by a third party, or a used product. This is information that you may not be interested in, but serves to supplement the previous one (and if you are not interested, you can remove it from the display by unchecking the appropriate option).

As you can see in the example we took, on the day the product was added, the Logitech mouse, its price on Amazon was 94.97 euros, and although it was about five euros cheaper from January to April, its lowest price ever was 80 euros. in August 2020. Its most expensive price, on the other hand, was 131 euros in December 2020. And yes, you can get it cheaper second-hand, although among the bids for a brand new item, a third party has never been as competitive as Amazon.

In short, all these figures are an indication of the optimal or recommended price at which you could take the product, except for sudden drops due to product renewal – in this case, Logitech launches a new mouse model and lowers the price of the current one. balance the stock as soon as possible.

Camelcamelcamel: Tracking discounts

And of course Camelcamelcamel will help you track changes in the price of the products you list, to notify you when they are discounted. To do this, you must register for the service using an email account. You can choose between an email message or a Twitter mention to receive notifications, although you can also do this via RSS.

how exactly? In the same way: once you register for the service, you enter the name of the product or its URL into the search engine and complete the process by choosing whether you want the tracking to be at Amazon’s price, new or used by a third party; and state the price you want it for.

When you add price tracking, You must specify which discount you are looking for: a percentage below the current price, any discount (Any drop in price!), “a good offer that would be from 20% off or “best price”, i.e. the lowest price registered to date.

Are you an avid shopper and bothered by the need to add products to Camelcamelcamel? For this, there is an extension for the web browsers Chromium (Chrome, Miscorosft Edge and other derivatives), Firefox and Safari, which hides all the functions you need. Clicking the button when viewing a product on Amazon will show you a price history and a button to add to your watchlist.

Camelizer, Camelcamelcamel web browser extension (don’t panic, he doesn’t want to sell you a watch: it’s a bad translation)

Are you also one of those who have a long list of desired products on Amazon and are too lazy to transfer them to Camelcamelcamel one by one? Don’t get complicated because Camelcamelcamel makes it easy to import your wish list with a few clicks; and from there do the same for the products you’re following.

Camelcamelcamel also offers a customizable discount section that you can easily follow with an RSS client for both the most discounted products and the most popular products, both of which can be filtered by category or using the search engine.

It should be noted that the scope of Camelcamelcamel is limited to certain markets, so this interesting tool is only available to Amazon users in Germany, Australia, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and, of course, Spain. .