How to find the best Prime Day deals

Amazon Prime Day 2023 is taking place on July 11 and 12, but there have been some Prime Day early offer you can get, including invite-only deals on select Amazon Fire TVs, etc. Once the big day arrives, Polygon pulls together the best deals on games, accessories, gadgets and games. games and other related stuff that you can find on Amazon and at competing retailers.

However, if you’re more interested in how to find the best deals on your own, there are some great tools available to keep an eye on the sales. Below, we’ve outlined some of our favorite free apps along with some helpful strategies to make sure you don’t miss out on any discounts on your favorite products.

Keep track of Prime Day sales with these tools

Camel Camel

CamelCamelCamel, as odd as the name suggests, is still one of the best tools for tracking history and price changes for specific products on Amazon. While you don’t need an account to see pricing information available in the app, creating a profile will allow you to set up a watch list and receive email price alerts for your favorite products. You can populate your own watch lists, but the app also allows you to import any existing Amazon wish lists into your CamelCamelCamel profile.

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Even so, CamelCamelCamel and the Camelizer browser extension linked here please only provide information for products on Amazon, so you’ll need a different set of tools if you’re shopping at Best Buy, Target, GameStop, or elsewhere on Official Day.

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Finally, we have the Keepa extension, which is not too different from CamelCamelCamel. It allows you to import your Amazon wish list and track prices on specific products. While Keepa only tracks pricing history for Amazon products, its extension automatically populates any product page with a detailed chart of price movements over a certain period of time. . Opening the “Track Products” tab will allow you to set up alerts that notify you when a product matches or drops below a certain price, just like other tracking tools.

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Honey

Honey and its accompanying extensions allow you to track changes in pricing history on specific products, but across several retailers, not just Amazon. Additionally, as an added bonus, Honey will also automatically search for a promo code when you checkout at a supported retailer.

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While setting up a Honey account doesn’t allow you to import existing wish lists from other retailers, its Smart Drop List feature will automatically populate your Drop List with the items in your “Save for later” cart on Amazon and will also track the prices of frequently viewed items across certain retailers. Just make sure to enable the feature if you want to take advantage of it.

Slickdeals

If you prefer a more hands-on approach when looking for deals, Slickdeals is a regularly updated collection of some of the best discounts on a wide range of products, vetted by the site’s community of users. . While it doesn’t allow you to track prices for specific products, you can set up notifications for deals that match specific keywords or have certain popularity among Slickdeals users. . Slickdeals is a great way to browse trending deals across broad categories without having to set up alerts or even create an account.

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Get Alexa to remind you

For Prime Members with an Echo smart speaker, you can opt-in to receive promotional notifications on certain products up to 24 hours before they go live. The Alexa app can notify you of discounts on eligible products that you have in your shopping cart, wishlist, or saved for later purchase.

To enable the feature, go to the notifications menu in the settings in your Alexa mobile app and open Amazon Shopping. In the Amazon Shopping menu, scroll down to Shopping Suggestions and turn on Deal Suggestions. Just keep in mind that enabling this feature won’t have Alexa’s chime when the product goes on sale, but you’ll still get a yellow notification bell on your Echo device, in addition to your mobile alert. Friend.

Make sure to check out the invite-only offers

As we mentioned at the beginning of this article, Amazon has made some Main day offer are also available for a few Fire TVs and other products, but there is a catch to some of them. You have to be invited first, but to be fair, it’s not an invitation but a request. Simply find a participating product and click “Request an Invitation”. If Amazon is able to fulfill your order, you’ll receive an email notification on Prime Day with instructions on how to pay with your exclusive loot. The number of invite-only deals is pretty limited right now, but that could change as we get closer to the Official Date.

Prime Day isn’t just for Amazon anymore

In case Amazon doesn’t discount a particular product you’re looking for, you might want to check out the deals being offered at other retailers. You can rest assured that many more stores will be vying for your attention around July 11, and while they may not offer much lower prices, retailers like Best buy, WalmartAnd Target all have price matching policies that can match those available on Amazon.

We are here to help

If this all starts to sound like a lot of work, don’t worry. The Polygon team will be highlighting all the best game deals on Prime Day and beyond. If you want to let us do the heavy lifting, go ahead and bookmark our main page main day landing page for updates taking place between now and July 11.