Amazon Prime Day: How to track the best deals

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

From TVs and electronics, to pet supplies, to home goods, 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. Luckily, there are ways of parsing through the noise to pinpoint 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 browsers extensions that do the work of tracking prices for you.

Camelcamelcamel(opens in a new tab) is a website that gives you price history charts on Amazon products and even sends you alerts when a price has dropped. 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’re shopping.

Keepa(opens in a new tab) is price monitoring site and browser extension that is 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 a new tab) and Slickdeals(opens in a new tab). These sites are particularly useful, because “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 keep track of 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 on this setting, 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 this setting is live.

Check curated lists

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

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