CamelCamelCamel - How To Check If You're Getting a Good Deal on Amazon

What Is It?

I've just seen this item on Amazon for an amazing price - what a bargain, or is it?!

A former work colleague of mine introduced me to the Camel Camel Camel website that is specifically for searching the history of Amazon prices so you can instantly see if something you have your eye on really is at a genuinely low price or not.

CamelCamelCamel periodically checks Amazons website and records the price of each items it sells, thus creating a price history.  You can even set up alerts where you can get the website to email you when an item you are interested in goes below a certain price.

How Does It Work?

Simply search Amazon for an item you're interested in, copy and paste the website link/address/URL in to the CamelCamelCamel website and take a look at the results.

Worked Example

Say you were interested in buying an Amazon Fire Stick...

Simply highlight the website address/page/URL/link in the address bar of your chosen internet browse and Copy/Paste it in to the www.camelcamelcamel.com website:

Hit Enter or click on the magnifying glass and wait for the results...

As you can see, the current price is £39.99 and on at least 4 occasions in the last 3 months it has gone below £30 with £24.99 being its lowest price.  You can now make an informed decision.

CamelCamelCamel is a great tool to use around special events like Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day(s) or even Amazon Spring Day Deals (this was when is was at the low, low price of £24.99).

In conclusion you can now decide if £39.99 is a price worth paying or if you want to see if it goes down to £29.99 in the next month or so or whether you want to wait until the next major even (like Prime Day) to see if it goes to the lowest price of £24.99 again.

www.camelcamelcamel.com

trolley.co.uk - Compare Supermarket Prices To Get The Best Prices

You're off your trolley if you don't use this website to potentially save money on your supermarket shop!

Seriously though, give it a try - it lists products from all the major supermarkets; Aldi, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, Iceland, Waitrose and even Amazon!

If you've seen some of the meal ideas on this website, you wont be surprised to learn that I love Pepsi Max so when I'm getting close to running out all I do is perform a quick search on www.trolley.co.uk

It then shows you how cheap it has been (along with what it's peak price has been) and which supermarkets are selling it.  The only negative thing, is it doesn't show offers such as Iceland do a lot of 4 for £34 (which works out at £8.50 each) but it would still show the full price of £11.25 so you still need to do a little bit of shopping around.

Having said that, most items don't tend to have such offers so in my next example we'll look at Clover Light:

At the moment ASDA is the cheapest so I know where I'll be going when I've finished writing this blog entry!

You can even set up alerts for price changes - Walkers box of 20 crisps can go down as low as £3.85 but normally sell at around £4.85 so you can set an email alert up so that you get a notification when the price goes down.

I use my mobile phone to browse to the trolley.co.uk website whilst in a supermarket to check the price of something to see if it's a good price or not.

www.trolley.co.uk