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I'm sure this surprises no-one who has ever waited for a Black Friday (deal) only to suspect/know that the price is no different than before. It feels especiall

I'm sure this surprises no-one who has ever waited for a Black Friday (deal) only to suspect/know that the price is no different than before. It feels especially this way in Europe where retailers have adopted "Black Friday week" or similar purely to encourage additional spending. There is a tool (in Switzerland) I use a lot. TopPreise (http://toppreise.ch http://toppreise.ch) scrapes, aggregates and compares prices from retailers but also keeps a graph of the price evolution over time. You can see the highest and lowest prices over the recent period and it's very useful to know if what you're actually buying is a "deal" or not. One of the largest retailers in Switzerland - Galaxus https://www.galaxus.ch/en/ https://www.galaxus.ch/en/ - has also adopted a similar strategy for their own products. Showing 3 months of how the price has changed.

thesmok 5y ago
hotline.ua is the same thing for Ukraine.
alexwebb2 5y ago
CamelCamelCamel is a similar tool for tracking Amazon prices: https://camelcamelcamel.com/ https://camelcamelcamel.com/
wingworks 5y ago
We have a similar site in New Zealand https://pricespy.co.nz/ https://pricespy.co.nz/ Use it all the time.
PennRobotics 5y ago
These sites are great. Some device I'd like to buy is discounted 3%, and I can see that the manufacturer's old model steadily dropped in price between Christmas and summer. I know it's better to wait than to bite at the current, laughable discount. In Germany, https://www.billiger.de/ https://www.billiger.de/ https://www.idealo.de/ https://www.idealo.de/ and https://geizhals.de/ https://geizhals.de/ are just three of the many sites that aggregate prices. I know Idealo has a price history that goes back one year. The unfortunate parts: they only list price history for new items, and incorrectly listed discounts (refurb instead of new, different model/color, etc.) stay in a product's price history, so there are sometimes price valleys that should not exist. It would be nice if you could see (on the price history chart) which site/seller had the lowest historical price, since there's more credibility in a listing from Media Markt (probably the largest electronics chain in DE) than from Ebay.

thesmok 5y ago

hotline.ua is the same thing for Ukraine.

alexwebb2 5y ago

CamelCamelCamel is a similar tool for tracking Amazon prices: https://camelcamelcamel.com/ https://camelcamelcamel.com/

wingworks 5y ago

We have a similar site in New Zealand https://pricespy.co.nz/ https://pricespy.co.nz/ Use it all the time.

PennRobotics 5y ago

These sites are great. Some device I'd like to buy is discounted 3%, and I can see that the manufacturer's old model steadily dropped in price between Christmas and summer. I know it's better to wait than to bite at the current, laughable discount. In Germany, https://www.billiger.de/ https://www.billiger.de/ https://www.idealo.de/ https://www.idealo.de/ and https://geizhals.de/ https://geizhals.de/ are just three of the many sites that aggregate prices. I know Idealo has a price history that goes back one year. The unfortunate parts: they only list price history for new items, and incorrectly listed discounts (refurb instead of new, different model/color, etc.) stay in a product's price history, so there are sometimes price valleys that should not exist. It would be nice if you could see (on the price history chart) which site/seller had the lowest historical price, since there's more credibility in a listing from Media Markt (probably the largest electronics chain in DE) than from Ebay.