I'm curious about how others keep track of specific items they want to purchase but can wait until they are on sale.
* In a world of inboxes being flooded with newsletters and sale alerts, how do you make sure you don't miss your bargain?
* Do you wishlist items on the respective websites and check them every day?
* Do you just rely on your noggin to remember each and every thing?
Share with me your full-proof methods!
Remember to be kind, it takes the same amount of energy✌️
I agree, Amazon is a good starting point to monitor, as they monitor other retailers and price match when the others go on sale. From there you can either buy from amazon, or hunt for which store they are price matching.
My biggest problem is that most of the stuff I want isn't on Amazon, or isn't priority enough for camelcamelcamel to index it. Like my soy milk, which semi-frequently drops price but I guess just isn't popular enough for camelcamelcamel
I obsess over them, searching them every day until they are on sale.
Are you me
This is my current method. It's exhausting!
- In a world of inboxes being flooded with newsletters and sale alerts, how do you make sure you don't miss your bargain?
Use the search alerts feature on Ozbargain and set up your own keywords to trigger email alerts
Do you wishlist items on the respective websites and check them every day?
Use the search alerts feature and subscribe to notifications and install the Ozbargain app so that you can receive notifications on your phone
Note that our apps are not in active development and may not work properly on some devices, e.g the Pixel 8 series. But you can install the Progressive web app and enable Chrome / Safari notifications and still get notified as if it were a native app
- Do you just rely on your noggin to remember each and every thing?
Use the Deal alerts feature to subscribe to product tags, brands and stores so you don't have to use your noggin to remember everything
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Use the search alerts feature on Ozbargain and set up your own keywords to trigger email alerts
This is the one true path.
I set up alert for the words "photo paper". I have many hundreds of alert emails from OZB in my spam folder, not a single one of them is for photo paper, but each has the word "photo" or "paper" in there somewhere.
Try subscribing to the tag itself by clicking on the "Subscribe" button on the tag page.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/tag/photo-paper
And the reason you are getting irrelevant search results is because you aren't using advanced search options and including parameters to filter out stuff. There are params for only searching the deal titles (option:titleonly) and excluding results from forums or classifieds. (type:ozbdeal)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/wiki/help:search for a list of options you can use.
I'll try that. Where can I unsubscribe from the term "photo paper", I did it so long ago I can't even remember where to go to get rid of it..
@AustriaBargain: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/user/-/subscriptions/event
click the X next to the search alerts
My biggest problem with this option being the only thing I do is a lot of the things I want are on stores or are items not shared on OzBargain (unless I share them).
i have soooo many tabs open in my browser
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My phone just has smiley face now. I consider it a badge of honour
Google shopping alerts, Ozbargain alerts, C^3 alerts and regularly searching for the item.
I only have a short list of things I really want. I'll decide I want something, obsess over it for a week then forget about it - that's a good sign I didn't really need it.
Whereas I've been on the hunt for the coffee machine I want on sale for months now. I've been idly looking a tattoo artist for about 15 years now (same design too). But my plan of, say, getting a good lawn edger lasts about a day.
Whaaaaat? Last time I checked we couldn't do Google shopping alerts in Aus. I'm regoogling now!
Huh, apparently it doesn't exist in Australia. I've done it overseas, I guess I've never done it here.
Thank you for clarifying. I was losing my mind with everything I found said we couldn’t in Aus.
Web Alert: Watch any website for changes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.webalert
I mostly use it to check if something I've bought previously drops in price for price protection claims.
There are plenty of others though, just google "free website change monitoring tool".
Ooo interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Surely others have also found 3xcamels to be unreliable? A couple of GPUs I made alerts for I never got sent an email even though there had been numerous price drops
Ye that's been my experience. It really doesn't work well for the Australian market.
In Amazon you can alerted with camel website when price drop to price you want.