Like many shoppers, I started my search at Amazon–where “Firefly: The Complete Series” on Blu-ray sells for $49.99. Ouch. Too rich for my poor blogger blood.
Fortunately, I’m in no rush, so I copied the URL for the product page, then headed to camelcamelcamel–the ultimate site for Amazon shoppers (and arguably the most unfortunately named service since failed dot-com Flooz).
Camelcamelcamel (which I will hereafter refer to as CCC) lets you set up price-watch alerts for virtually any Amazon product. For example, when Amazon (or a third-party seller) drops that “Firefly” collection to below $25, CCC will notify me via e-mail and/or Twitter.
You can even set up an RSS feed for an individual product or all the products you’re tracking.
But wait, there’s more. CCC provides price-history charts that date back as far as a year. That’s a great help in researching your product and figuring out a reasonable amount for your price-watch alert.
The “Firefly” set has been as low as $27 from Amazon–and $22 from third-party resellers. But, currently, no one has it for less than $34. So I think setting my price watch at $25 makes sense.
CCC lets you import your Amazon Wish List, a big time-saver. There’s also a “Camelizer” Firefox add-on, Chrome extension, and bookmarklet that gives you one-click access to price-history charts–not just for Amazon, but also for Best Buy and Newegg.
Finally, CCC has prefab RSS feeds for “biggest Amazon price drops,” “most recent price drops,” and “most popular products”–all great tools for the avid Amazon shopper.
As someone who works overtime to find the lowest prices on everything, I’m adding camelcamelcamel to my list of must-bookmark sites.