Yup, I do that as well and have benefited from some decent price drops. That said, I suspect that by regularly checking my shopping cart I end up buying more stuff as I "browse" Amazon's various offerings. That was the draw to getting an alert, if it made me less likely to check in on Amazon regularly.Pajamas wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:04 pm If you keep items in your shopping cart to purchase later, Amazon will notify you of price changes each time you look at your cart. I do that with items that I need to buy but don't need immediately.
Some items have steep price drops for a short period of time, either because someone else is selling it for less or to clear inventory or for other reasons. Sometimes a price will drop incrementally each day for long periods of time and then suddenly return to normal.
I've had an Anker portable charger in my cart for a while. While I've seen price drops on various items, as you mentioned, in this case Amazon dangled a $2 off deal "for me" but for whatever reason I didn't bite at the time. I think I may have even been shown it again a second time, which made me think that, for sure, I could wait and see a bigger decline. Well, of course, the reverse happened and the price just keeps creeping higher and higher. Granted, we're talking a few bucks in the big scheme of things, but I had just assumed that tech stuff would be subject to downward price pressure as new and improved products hit the market. On camelcamelcamel.com I think the lowest price listed was about what I would have paid with the Amazon promo I was shown. Oh well. No question that I am spending (wasting) too much time on Amazon.