I do a lot of my Christmas shopping online because (a) it’s much more enjoyable to shop from your settee than to brave the cold and the masses of stressed out shoppers and (b) it’s so much easier to find bargains online than it is in the shops.
I love Amazon for shopping online but the one thing that annoys me about Amazon is how much the prices fluctuate from day to day and even from hour to hour. As annoying as this can be though, it does mean that you can get some great deals if you are on the ball.
This year, I’ve discovered a site called CamelCamelCamel which has helped me find some of the best deals on Amazon for what I’m after and it saved me so much money that I can even forgive it’s ridiculous name! 😉
Basically, you enter the Amazon link to the product you are interested in and CamelCamelCamel will tell you the history of the price of the item so you can see what the highest and lowest selling price has been over the last few months. You can use that information to decide whether the price it’s at now is a good price or whether you may get a better price if you leave it a while.
You can even set it to send you an email alert if the price gets reduced to a certain price. That way you can buy it as soon as it gets to that price and you’ll have grabbed yourself a bargain.
For example, a box set DVD that I’m after for Miss Frugal for Christmas has been as high as £16.69 and as low as £9.25 in the last year. It’s currently somewhere between the two prices and I have an alert set to email me if it gets as low as £10.00 again!
I’d rather the pounds were in my pocket than in someone elses!
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Hey Cass, Great post and thanks for sharing it, It's true that shopping online is more beneficial and comfortable than shop physical because by shopping online we can save money,time and visit many products by one touch,And in it sites like Amazons are providing amazing discount offers so it would be really helpful and make shopping in budget for those who are having a low budget for their shopping.
You knwo what I did not even have an idea that prices flutuate on Amazon, cool tool. Thanks Mich x
Oh that is brilliant I had never heard of that. Always up for saving money me.
That's so clever, I didn't know that there were tools like that.
What a brilliant idea. I'm sold seeing as they send those emails. Thank you for sharing 🙂
what a great tip thanks. I have been saving vouchers for Amazon but I still want a good deal!
oh very interesting. I am loving amazon and i actually have some stuff sitting in my cart right now so will have a look on the website x ta x
That's a good idea, off to check out the site now. Anything to help save some pennies
I use camelcamelcamel too. It saved me a fortune when I was pregnant as I set alerts for everything I wanted, so obviously over the 9 months or so most things dropped in price at one point or another x
Really? There is a greater site than Amazon. I have bookmarked the site. I'd definitely try it out to spend less; this is what I need as Christmas is coming!
Ohh I use Amazon a lot at this time of year….I have bookmarked the site it sounds very handy x