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Referring to the recent posts on this sub about strategies to spend less in sales and avoid being tempted by the deals, here are some tools that I personally use to help me understand how "good" a deal actually is.

These tools are basically price trackers with chrome extensions and options to notify you when a price drops and work across Amazon or Flipkart. This way you can plan what you need well in advance, set a tracker, check during sale period whether price has actually dropped and then take decision accordingly.

1. https://pricehistory.app/ - The UI is pretty good, tracks price consistently of most products I've tried and has filtering options in graph too. Chrome Extension is good too

2. https://www.pricebefore.com/ is a decent one too incase the first one doesn't help

3. Sometimes we want to compare prices across websites and its difficult for non-branded products. For those I use pricee.com or cheapshops.in

Just to clarify, I'm in no way affiliated to any websites shared. Just mentioning some I use personally.

Hope it helps people.

Why YSK: Many people want to find a great deal during sales, and many sellers take advantage of this. They raise the price a few days before the sale and then lower it just to show a large discount.

Always check price history charts to see what prices were like in the past and make sure the discount is real. This will help you avoid impulse purchases, shop at the lowest prices, and find real deals.

Camelcamelcamel, Keepa, Pricearchive are popular one's for Amazon and Aliexpress.

Links:

https://camelcamelcamel.com/ - price tracker for Amazon

https://keepa.com/ - another good price tracker for Amazon

https://www.pricearchive.org/ - price tracker for Aliexpress

It would be great if you could list good price trackers you use for Walmart, eBay, and other stores. This will be especially helpful during ongoing and upcoming sales.