does honey or keepa work for best buy because i really need to know if this laptop is actually on sale or if they are just tricking me. sorry if this is a super basic question i am just really bad with technology and i feel like i am going in circles trying to figure this out. my daughter turns 15 next tuesday and i saved up about 900 dollars to get her a decent laptop for school and maybe some games but i dont want to waste the money if it's gonna be cheaper in two weeks or if it was way cheaper last month. i saw this one acer laptop at the best buy near me in schaumburg and it says it's 200 dollars off but how do i actually check that?? someone told me to use keepa but when i looked at it i could only find stuff for amazon and it was all these confusing charts and lines and i have no clue how to make it show best buy stuff. then i tried that honey extension thing but it just keeps popping up asking me to join some rewards program and i just want to see the price history graph like people talk about on reddit. is there a specific button i have to click or does it just not work for best buy at all? i really need to buy this by friday so it gets here in time for her party but i am terrified of overpaying especially since 900 is basically all the extra cash i have right now. if keepa doesnt do it is there something else that does? i just need a simple way to see if the price has been lower before without having to be a computer genius or something. please help i am literally staring at like ten different tabs right now and i am so confused and i feel like i am gonna pick the wrong thing and regret it later. like is there a website where i just paste the best buy link and it shows me the old prices or do i have to install something on my computer? i am worried about downloading viruses too so i want to make sure whatever i use is safe. anyway i just need to know if those two specific ones work or if i am wasting my time looking for a best buy option on them...
Keepa is basically Amazon-exclusive. Honey tracks Best Buy via extension but its kinda unreliable. Use a web tracker like PriceBefore to cross-reference historical MSRP and sales data... its safer than installing plugins.
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@Reply #2 - good point! Honestly, I am in the exact same boat right now trying to figure out if a TV I want is actually a deal or not. In my experience over the years, tracking anything outside of Amazon is a total nightmare compared to how easy Keepa makes it for that one site. It is so frustrating when you are trying to be careful with your money but the tools just dont work like they should for other retailers like Best Buy. One thing I have noticed tho is that even when an app says it tracks Best Buy, the price history is often super outdated or misses the short flash sales. It makes it really hard to trust the graphs... definitely commiserating with you on this one. It feels like you have to do so much manual work just to avoid getting tricked, which is the last thing you want when you are on a tight budget.
I am with ysiidigudk on this one... it is honestly so frustrating how these tools fall apart the second you leave Amazon. I tried using Honey for a kitchen appliance last year and it was a total disaster because the price history it showed did not match the actual store tags at all. A couple things that bugged me: