I've been staring at this one specific 34-inch ultrawide monitor for like three weeks now and the price keeps bouncing around like crazy. One day it's $450 then it's $520 then back down to $480 and I'm honestly just tired of checking the tab every morning before I start work. I'm trying to get my whole home office setup together before my new contract starts in October and I'm on a pretty strict budget of $1200 for the whole thing—monitor, chair, keyboard, the works. Being in Chicago everything is already expensive enough so I really need to save where I can.
I did some digging and found CamelCamelCamel and Keepa but I'm kinda torn. Keepa looks like it has a ton of info but those graphs are honestly super overwhelming and I heard they started charging for some of the basic price drop alerts which is annoying. Camel is cool too but it seems like it only tracks Amazon prices and I'm looking at stuff on B&H and Newegg too because sometimes they have open-box deals that are way better than what Jeff Bezos is offering. Then there's Honey which everyone talks about but every time I use it it just feels like it's trying to sell me something or it's just hunting for coupons that don't even work half the time. I really just want something that sits in the corner of my browser and tells me "hey this is the lowest price this item has been in 6 months" without me having to do a bunch of manual work or giving up every piece of my private browsing data to some massive corporation.
Is there anything out there that handles multiple retailers well and is actually free? I don't mind if it's got a few ads or whatever but I really need something reliable for the next couple months while I finish buying all this gear for the apartment. What are you guys using that actually works for stuff outside of just Amazon?
Look, honestly most of the popular extensions are pretty disappointing these days. I had high hopes for Honey but it is basically just bloatware now and the coupons never work for high-end electronics like monitors. Keepa is okay if you are a data nerd but it is way too cluttered for a quick check while you are working, and paying for alerts is a total joke. If you are trying to hit that 1200 dollar budget for a full setup in Chicago, you really need something that handles Newegg and BH properly since Amazon is rarely the cheapest for ultrawides anymore. I usually suggest a price drop tool for this kind of thing because it actually tracks multiple stores without the mess.