I know many (probably most) of you don't like buying books on Amazon, but it's my main source when acquiring new items for my collection (I'm not an avid collector to be fair; one or two books a month is enough for me).

Some months ago I stumbled across a nice add-on for chrome/edge called KEEPA: it checks and inform the price history of any item on Amazon (not only books). It's a nice tool for those looking for nice deals on the platform:

The graph is quite easy to understand: yellow line for item sold by Amazon itself, blue for 3rd party new, black for used. You can stretch the graph to show only one day, one week, one month, three months, one year or since the item was announced.

This alone is nice enough to follow price drops/raises, but its best feature is price tracking:

Once added to your browser it will load automatically on any amazon product page, right below the description:

To track a product and being notified of price drops you will have to sign up (for free) in the keepa webpage.

I know most of you hate Amazon book handling (I had some unpleasant experiences as well), but lately they improved a lot. And like I said, you can use this for whatever item you wish, not only books.

For those hunting for good deals, it may worth give this tool a try.

Hey, if you haven't noticed, next week is Black Friday. And the pre-Black Friday starts this Friday, 11/22, with a lot of retailers offering deals already. Amazon is offering a UCS Falcon 75192 for 40% off at various points throughout the week. Do you want to grab it? Well, I'm about to give you some tips on how to get it without sitting on the page hitting F5 every 30 seconds.

There are various tools that allow you to monitor prices on items. Unfortunately, I have not found items that do things such as "monitor prices on all Lego products on Amazon". The tools below are more the type of "monitor prices on 75192 on Amazon and notify me when it goes below $X".

• Keepa - This is the winner, but here's why. It is fast. If a price drops, you'll get notified within a few minutes, if not seconds, of when the price changes. You can get notified via email, Facebook Messenger, Telegram Messenger, RSS, and browser notifications. I didn't see an option for text messages, which is how most people would prefer to receive stuff like this. There are many options and lots of data, but for now, I'll leave it there, but seriously, go check out all the options that Keepa has. Remember last year when the modulars Brick Bank and Detective's Office were being retired? Well, back in January, Amazon had a secret stash and both of those sets were popping in and out of stock at retail price a lot for a few weeks. I was able to grab each of them pretty easily. I kept the price alerts on and I kept getting pretty frequent price alert emails. If I wanted to get 10 copies of Brick Bank, I could have. Keepa is that good. Only bad side is that you have to set up a separate price alert for each set that you want.

• CamelCamelCamel (aka CCC or 3C or C3) - This used to be awesome, but it is slow. I had CCC alerts for the above modulars. I got maybe 20% of the alerts compared to Keepa just because it seems to check every hour or so and it isn't near real time. A few times there was stock remaining, but most of the time, it was sold out by the time I got a CCC alert. It used to be awesome, but Keepa is the new king.

• Slickdeal Alerts - I have a deal alert for Slickdeals for the term 'lego'. I get emails whenever someone posts a deal to their forums. It is human curated, not a bot scanning, and it includes all Lego deals. I still use this just to get general Lego deals.

There's my take on which price watch tools to nab some great sets between now and Christmas.

Happy deal hunting.