Amazon Prime Day: How to track the best deals

Amazon Prime Day 2023 has begun, which means there are great deals for Prime members on… pretty much everything.

From TVs and electronics, to pet supplies, to home appliances, the list goes on and on. It’s an exciting time for savvy shoppers, but it can also be overwhelming to research the best deals and make sure you’re getting the best bang for your buck. Fortunately, there are ways to sift through the noise to find what you’re looking for. Here are some tools and tricks to guide you on your Prime Day journey.

Take advantage of price tracking tools

Check out dedicated sites and browser extensions that do the job of tracking prices for you.

Camel Camel(opens in new tab) a website that gives you price history charts of Amazon products and even sends you alerts when a price drops. To up your price monitoring game, you can install its browser extension, called “The Camelizer,” which gives you instant access to price history while you shop.

Keep(opens in new tab) is a price monitoring site and browser extension dedicated to Amazon products. You can also use it to compare prices on other retailer sites like Ebay.

Other tools that crawl the web for the best deals and notify you about price drops are Honey(opens in new tab) and Slickdeals(opens in new tab). These sites are especially profitable, as the “Prime Day Effect” often causes other retailer sites like Target and Walmart to offer competing deals.

Ask Alexa for help

If you have an Echo device with Alexa, you can enlist the voice assistant to track deals for you. By enabling this setting, Alexa will notify you up to 24 hours in advance of a deal you’ve added to your shopping cart, saved for later, or added to your List. To turn this setting on, go to the Alexa app and open Notifications under Settings. From here, tap Amazon Shopping and scroll down to toggle Deal Recommendations. Your Echo device will flash a yellow ring to indicate that this setting is live.

Check out the curated listings

Finding the best prices on Prime Day is one thing, but how do you know what deals are on offer? It’s safe to assume that most Amazon products have some sort of discount, but some deals are better than others, meaning it’s important to know what to buy and what not. not on Prime Day purchases.

Mashable’s shopping team has done the legwork of scouring Amazon’s vast inventory to highlight the best deals out there. For example, this is a good time to buy Apple devices, headphones, robot vacuums, and kitchen gadgets, but maybe not gaming consoles. Plus, if anything is too good to be true, it probably is.