多年来，亚马逊(Amazon)一直是最大的电子商务零售商，随着该公司开始开发自己的广受欢迎的产品，例如Kindle Fire 和 Echo Dot(Kindle Fire and Echo Dot)，没有任何放缓的迹象。
曾经是一家不起眼的在线书店(online book store)现在变成了一个庞大的在线市场(online marketplace)，它直接销售自己的产品，还允许第三方商家列出待售物品。有了这样一个大杂烩，节俭和精明(frugal and savvy)的人总是在寻找新的方法来利用亚马逊的交易。
亚马逊(Amazon)很少举行大规模的促销活动，最受欢迎的是Prime Day，但每天都在降价和推出交易——数量之多以至于很难跟踪。
然而，为了让成千上万的购物者受益，有几个在线亚马逊价格跟踪(price tracking)工具可以汇总亚马逊数百万种产品和商店价格(store price)历史记录。在本文中，我们将介绍一些适用于您的桌面或浏览器的最佳亚马逊(desktop or browser)价格跟踪(price tracking)工具。
Keepa是我们在您的浏览器中选择的顶级亚马逊价格跟踪工具。(Amazon price)它通过Firefox、Chrome、Opera、Edge上的浏览器扩展，甚至通过Firefox 应用程序(Firefox app)在移动设备上得到支持。
尽管 Keepa 确实提供了高级功能(premium features)，但我多年来一直在免费使用它，这是我跟踪在亚马逊(Amazon)上抢购产品的最佳时间的最佳方式。
创建帐户并安装 Keepa 的浏览器扩展程序之一后，它将自动在每个亚马逊产品(Amazon product)页面上显示价格历史(price history)图表。
这使您可以一目了然地了解(at-a-glance insight)购买产品的最佳时间。仅此图表就使我免于以比其经常最低价格高出几十个百分比的价格购买产品，这感觉很好。
Keepa还允许您直接在(Keepa)亚马逊产品(Amazon product)页面上为商品设置单独的价格提醒。
触发后，您可以将这些价格通知发送到您的电子邮件、Facebook、Telegram、桌面通知，甚至是RSS 提要(RSS feed)。
Keepa使亚马逊(Amazon)的价格跟踪变得简单直观，我发现没有充分的理由从它转向竞争服务。
CamelCamelCamel与(CamelCamelCamel)Keepa惊人的相似。主要区别在于每个网站的功能，而不是他们的浏览器扩展(browser extension)。CamelCamelCamel的网站提供了一个亚马逊价格(Amazon price)跟踪工具，它提供了非常无序和不一致的结果。感觉像是从直接在亚马逊(Amazon)上搜索退了一步。
CamelCamelCamel 为Firefox和Chrome的用户提供浏览器扩展，其扩展的工作方式与 Keepa 的几乎相同。
主要区别在于 Keepa 的价格图表(price chart)嵌入到亚马逊页面(Amazon page)本身，而 CamelCamelCamel 的价格图表是通过浏览器工具栏中的扩展图标访问的。当您导航到亚马逊产品(Amazon product)页面时，您会看到扩展图标(extension icon)亮起。点击它会弹出产品的价格图表(price chart)。
该图表允许您显示或隐藏价格类型（亚马逊(Amazon)、第三方新品和第三方使用），您可以通过输入所需价格直接从此弹出窗口轻松创建价格提醒。
如果您需要Keepa(Keepa)提供的更精美的网站功能，或者您更喜欢一个图表而不是另一个图表，那么选择CamelCamelCamel而不是Keepa很简单。两者的工作方式非常相似且效果很好。
SlickDeals 与Keepa 和 CamelCamelCamel(Keepa and CamelCamelCamel)非常不同。从保留一个充满价格历史的数据库的意义上说，它不是传统的亚马逊价格跟踪服务。(Amazon price)相反，它完全依赖社区提交相关交易。
这种交易管理(deal curation)方法有利有弊，但多年来， SlickDeals用户已成为他们手艺的大师。例如，在2019 年 Prime 会员日期间， (Prime Day 2019)SlickDeals率先发现售价 13,000 美元的相机仅售出 90 美元（明显的价格错误(price mistake)）。
亚马逊(Amazon)遍布SlickDeals，它是他们在搜索结果中列出的官方商店之一。这允许用户将交易警报缩小到仅出现在亚马逊(Amazon)上的警报。
虽然您可能无法向 SlickDeals提供亚马逊产品的(Amazon product)URL以监控其价格波动，但您可以添加一个自定义交易警报(deal alert)，缩小到确切的商店、类别、品牌和关键字。如上所示，添加此警报会让我知道用户在亚马逊上找到(Amazon)金士顿 DataTraveler 闪存(Kingston DataTraveler flash)盘交易的那一刻。
SlickDeals 也有一个官方的浏览器扩展(official browser extension)，但它的功能更像Honey而不是Keepa 或 CamelCamelCamel(Keepa or CamelCamelCamel)。它更像是优惠券跟踪器(coupon tracker)而不是价格跟踪器(price tracker)。不过， SlickDeals(SlickDeals)与此列表中的其他两个跟踪器相比确实有一个优势，它是一款适用于iOS和Android的很棒的应用程序。
虽然它不一定是亚马逊价格(Amazon price)跟踪服务，但您不会后悔尝试 SlickDeals。您会惊讶地看到社区发现的交易！
从长远来看，花时间建立和维护对这三个亚马逊价格(Amazon price)跟踪和交易跟踪服务之一的跟踪将带来回报。如果您的目标是成为一个更节俭的购物者，一定要尝试上面列出的所有三个选项！
3 Amazon Price Tracking Tools For The Desktop Or Browser
Amazon has been the largest e-commerce retailer for years, and as the company has branchеd out into developing its own massively popular products, such as the Kindle Fire and Echo Dot, there’s no sign of it slowing down.
What was once a modest online book store is now a massive online marketplace that sells its own products directly and also allows third-party merchants to list items for sale. With such a hodgepodge of listings, the frugal and savvy are always looking for new ways to take advantage of Amazon’s deals.
Amazon holds large-scale sales very infrequently, it’s most popular being Prime Day, but prices are slashed and deals are launched every day—so many that it’s hard to keep track of.
However, to the benefit of thousands of shoppers, there are several online Amazon price tracking tools that aggregate Amazon’s millions of products and store price histories. In this article, let’s go over some of the best Amazon price tracking tools for your desktop or browser.
Keepa is our pick for the top Amazon price tracking tool in your browser. It’s supported through browser extensions on Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge, and even on mobile through the Firefox app.
Although Keepa does offer premium features, I’ve been using it freely for years now and it’s been the best way for me to track the perfect time to snag a product on Amazon.
After creating an account and installing one of Keepa’s browser extensions, it will automatically show price history charts on every Amazon product page.
This allows at-a-glance insight into the best time to purchase a product. This chart alone has saved me from purchasing products for tens of percentages above their frequent lowest prices, and that feels good.
Keepa will also allow you to set up individual price alerts for items directly on Amazon product pages.
When triggered, you can have these price notifications sent to your email, Facebook, Telegram, desktop notifications, or even an RSS feed.
Keepa makes Amazon price-tracking simple and intuitive, and I’ve found no sufficient reason to switch from it to a competing service.
CamelCamelCamel is surprisingly similar to Keepa. The main difference is the functionality of each’s website, rather than their browser extension. CamelCamelCamel’s website offers an Amazon price tracking tool, which offers very unorderly and inconsistent results. It feels like a step back from simply searching on Amazon directly.
CamelCamelCamel offers browser extensions to users of Firefox and Chrome, and its extension works almost identically to Keepa’s.
The key difference is that Keepa’s price charts embed into the Amazon page itself, whereas CamelCamelCamel’s are accessed via the extension’s icon in your browser’s toolbar. When you navigate to an Amazon product page, you’ll see the extension icon light up. Clicking it will bring up the product’s price chart.
The chart allows you to show or hide price types (Amazon, third-party new, and third-party used), and you can easily create price alerts directly from this pop-out by entering your desired price(s).
Choosing CamelCamelCamel over Keepa is a simple matter of if you require the more polished website features that Keepa provides, or if you prefer one’s charts over the other. Both work very similarly and well.
SlickDeals is very different from Keepa and CamelCamelCamel. It’s not a traditional Amazon price tracking service in the sense of keeping a database full of price histories. Instead, it relies entirely on the community to submit relevant deals.
There are pros and cons to this method of deal curation, but SlickDeals users have become masters of their craft over the years. SlickDeals was first to catch the $13,000 camera being sold for just $90 (an obvious price mistake) during Prime Day 2019, for example.
Amazon is all over SlickDeals, and it’s one of the official stores they list in their search results. This allows users to narrow deal alerts down to ones that only appear at Amazon.
While you may not be able to feed SlickDeals the URL of an Amazon product to monitor it for price fluctuations, what you can do is add a custom deal alert narrowed down to an exact store, category, brand, and keyword. As shown above, adding this alert would let me know the instant a user finds a deal for a Kingston DataTraveler flash drive on Amazon.
SlickDeals also has an official browser extension, but it functions more like Honey rather than Keepa or CamelCamelCamel. It’s more of a coupon tracker than a price tracker. One advantage SlickDeals does have over the other two trackers on this list, though, is an awesome app for both iOS and Android.
While it’s not necessarily an Amazon price tracking service, you won’t regret giving SlickDeals a try. You’ll be surprised to see the deals that the community finds!
Investing in the time to set up and maintain tracking on one of these three Amazon price tracking and deal-tracking services will pay dividends in the long run. If your goal is to become a more frugal shopper, definitely try out all three options listed above!
