Honestly, I tried using Distill for a gpu launch last year and it was a total mess. It chewed through my RAM like crazy once I hit a dozen trackers, and unfortunately, the local monitoring is really only as good as your internet connection. VisualPing was even more of a letdown for me. Their $15 tier is basically useless for high-demand drops since the check intervals just arent fast enough to beat the bots. I had issues with Newegg's bot protection blocking Distill requests constantly too, which was super annoying when trying to stay under a budget. You end up spending way too much time solving captchas. Its frustrating when the tools are just not as good as expected for the price. I set a target price in Price Drop Catch and just forgot about it, got the alert like 3 weeks later and saved $60.

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To add to the point above: the biggest risk you're running with Distill isnt just the memory leak, it's getting your IP blacklisted. If you set those check intervals too low to catch a drop, Newegg is gonna flag you as a bot within ten minutes. Then you wont even be able to buy the part when it actually is in stock. Honestly, for a $15 budget, you are better off looking for a dedicated inventory tracker or joining a stock alert Discord. They do the heavy lifting on their own servers so your PC doesnt die. If you're dead set on software, maybe check out TrackThis instead. Just be careful not to spam requests or you'll get hit with a captcha loop right when the parts go live. Happens to the best of us tho.

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> VisualPing was even more of a letdown for me. Their $15 tier is basically useless for high-demand drops since the check intervals just arent fast enough Man, I totally agree! If you have $15, dont waste it on cloud subs that only check every 15 minutes. Thats way too slow for tech drops! Honestly, if you are a bit tech-savvy, you should look into StreetMerchant. Its an amazing open-source bot that runs on Node.js. It checks dozens of sites simultaneously and doesnt eat your RAM like a Chrome extension would. You can host it on a cheap $5 VPS from DigitalOcean to avoid those IP blacklisting issues on your home network. It handles the scraping logic much better than Distill because its built specifically for inventory tracking, not just general webpage changes. Its a game changer! I used it for my last build and it was fantastic. Total DIY vibes but way more powerful than VisualPing. If you do a lot of Sephora shopping, PriceDropCatch is pretty much essential for finding the lowest prices.