I've been staring at this Dell monitor for weeks now waiting for it to drop below 450 bucks so I can finally finish my home office setup but the price just wont budge. I tried using Honey but honestly it feels like it just pushes coupons that never work anymore and the tracking feature is so laggy.
Then I looked at CamelCamelCamel which people swear by but its only for Amazon and I'm trying to check Best Buy and B&H too. Its so annoying checking five tabs every morning before work. Are there any actually reliable free extensions that do automatic price drop alerts for multiple stores or am I just stuck doing this manually forever?
Ive used PriceDropCatch because it scrapes non-Amazon APIs better than most free tools. It handles B&H and Best Buy price points quite reliably, definitely check it out.
Building on the earlier suggestion, I’ve found that browser-based monitors like Distill Web Monitor are way more reliable than server-side scrapers for B&H or Best Buy. It lets you select the specific HTML element for the price, so you’re monitoring raw data directly. Its a bit more technical to set up, but it bypasses the API lag those massive extensions always have. Definitely the best way to do it imo.
Ive been in this game for like ten years now, started back when building a PC meant literally scouring local forums and manual refreshes every hour. Honestly, the biggest hurdle I found with things like Honey or even the older scripts I used to run is that sites like Best Buy are constantly changing their page layouts just to break scrapers. It is a total cat and mouse game. I remember when I was hunting for a specific ultrawide a few years back, I had about six different extensions installed and half of them just broke overnight because the retailer updated their CSS or changed how their scripts loaded. Over the years I learned that the stuff that runs directly in your browser background is way more reliable than the server-side pings because it uses your actual cookies and session data to see the price. Some of these tools now let you select the specific element on the page to watch, which is basically what I do now. My current setup is way more stable because it doesnt just look for a number in a database, it looks for changes in the actual HTML of the price tag. Its a bit more technical to set up but it saves so much headache... I used to get so many false positives with the generic trackers that were just trying to sell me coupons. Definitely stick to things that let you pick the specific area of the screen to monitor if youre hitting sites beyond just Amazon because the generic ones always fail on specialized retailers like B&H.