Comments on: A Clever Trick for Automatically Finding Deals You Want at Amazon

By: Discount Shopping Codes

Discount Shopping Codes — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:48:15 +0000

Feeds are a wonderful thing and very useful. It’s always good to see another clever use for them. Thanks for posting the tip.

By: reviewazon

reviewazon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:31:23 +0000

Thank you so much for this post. I use the reviewazon plugin. Reviewazon is the easy and simple way to add amazon affiliate product to your website.

By: VoucherCodes.me.uk

VoucherCodes.me.uk — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:05:08 +0000

Some decent tips on hunting out deals on Amazon, equally applicable to the UK market aswell as the US.

By: Mr Voucher

Mr Voucher — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:22:25 +0000

As Marc says, the best way to save is to use a combination of discount code, price comparison sites and cashback. Find the cheapest price, then use a code plus a cash back site and you will save loads.

By: Nokia N79

Nokia N79 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:29:25 +0000

Hi dan,

I also use jangle.net to find great deals from Amazon

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:02:20 +0000

Cool tip! You can do something very similiar with deallinker.com, except it monitors about two dozen bargain and retail sites in addition to Amazon.

To monitor for a specific item, simply perform a search; and then save the search results as a live bookmark in firefox.

I recently did this for after-christmas sales by performing a search for ‘christmas’; and ended up running across sales at Crate & Barrel and Walgreens that I wouldn’t have known about otherwise.

By: Nickelodeon Auditions

Nickelodeon Auditions — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:02:00 +0000

I used to use Froogle before I would ever go to Amazon, search around for a few mins, then google the website for scam protection. Simple as that.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:12:20 +0000

There are just so many more options now adays. You cna use codes, comparison engines, cashback…it is endless

By: Wiley

Wiley — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:19:54 +0000

Is there an anti-sifter program somewhere? Feedsifter doesn’t seem to believe in minus being doesn’t include and I would love to have an amazon gold feed that has terms -jewelry -necklace -watch. Any of you tech types know how to do this?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:01:41 +0000

WARNING: I just added this feed to search for a few items. After a couple of minutes it is clear that Amazon lies about the original price of many of these items to make them appear as a “steal”. For example they list a $500 watch on 80% discount for $100 and a quick internet search reveals that $80-$100 is the market value of the watch. Similarly an $8 pair of sunglasses was supposedly marked down from $188… but comparable items sold for under $10.

This is a cool tool indeed, but double check any of these “AMAZING AMAZON DISCOUNTS” because many of them of falsely advertised as luxury items. NEXTAG.com seems like a very good place to check the going market price of an item (and they show how the internet market price has changed over the past few months!)

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:46:18 +0000

Has anyone else had any issues trying to add feeds to either Feed Sifter or to Google?

For example, I’m trying to add a Western Digital feed from Amazon and each time I try it I get ‘Not Found.’

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:45:08 +0000

Do forget you can save even more with an amazon promotional discount code, just search google for one.

By: Kartik

Kartik — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:58:10 +0000

Trent,

Have you tried the ‘Buy It Later’ Firefox plugin which keeps track of price drops on Amazon items and sends notifications via e-mail or Twitter? Find it here: http://www.buylatr.com/

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:31:44 +0000

I much prefer http://camelcamelcamel.com/ . It’s probably the best Amazon tracker you’ll ever use.

By: Jessica D

Jessica D — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:10:03 +0000

Thanks! I’ve now added two feeds to my Google Reader. Very kewl!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:48:03 +0000

RSStalker.com...just put the items in your wishlist and this site will create a feed with any price changes.

By: Chiara

Chiara — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:11:27 +0000

Awesome!! I love Amazon and this is fantastic!

By: Griffin

Griffin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:23:38 +0000

I had never heard of filler item before! :D It drives me nuts when I can’t find something small to fill that space and have to either pau shipping or buy another item (about the same as I’d pay for shipping, usually!)

This will really help when it comes to finding used copies of textbooks.

Thanks a bunch!

By: jrh

jrh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:52:11 +0000

A very similar technique, but MUCH more powerful if you have the tech know-how – Yahoo! Pipes. Lifehacker did a great piece on it and craigslist. You can search almost anything you like and have Yahoo! Pipes do the monitoring and send you an email if it finds something.

Lifehacker article:
http://lifehacker.com/software/search-techniques/more-useful-craigslist-searches-with-yahoo-pipes-317841.php

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:29:57 +0000

great idea, you could also filter the feeds for sites like slickdeals.net and bensbargains.net