随着黑色星期五和网络星期一(Black Friday and Cyber Monday)的到来，最大的消费假期之一仍然在眼前：圣诞节(Christmas)！虽然精明的购物者可能已经在一年中最大的两个交易日期间将圣诞节(Christmas)购物排除在外，但随着零售商努力在新年前清理他们的库存，还有更多的节省。
由于有大量年终在线销售有待清理，因此值得了解一些让互联网为您完成最困难购物部分的最佳方法。比较购物(Comparison shopping)既困难又耗时，但我们知道有两种网络服务可以为您节省大量时间。
如果您在圣诞节前关注了某个特定的(Christmas)商店或商品(store or item)，有两种很好的方法可以监控它们，并了解何时出现在线交易或达到特定价格。
在这篇文章中，让我们来看看这两种方法如何通过使用 Slickdeals 和Keepa进行自动价格提醒来领先于其他购物者。
如果您热衷于购物，您可能听说过Slickdeals。Slickdeals刚刚庆祝成立 20 周年，连续 20 天向其网站的粉丝提供精心挑选的优惠。虽然Slickdeals的首页是公认的最新交易的旋转门，但您可能不知道它的最佳功能——交易(feature – deal)警报。
Slickdeals 的自定义交易提醒为我个人节省了数百美元，甚至数千美元，他们也可以为您做同样的事情。您所要做的就是注册一个 Slickdeals 帐户(sign up for a Slickdeals account)并导航到Deal Alerts页面。
为您感兴趣的产品选择关键字后，通过键入它并按Enter键来添加它。然后，您可以单击“更多选项(More Options)”来微调您的价格提醒。
这些选项使 Slickdeals 交易警报如此强大。您可以更改目标论坛(target forum)、通知方式(notification method)、频率和交易评级阈值(deal rating threshold)。
通过在iOS或Android上下载Slickdeals 应用程序(Slickdeals app)，您可以通过 Slickdeals 的移动推送通知随时随地进行交易。选择即时频率，而不是每天，意味着在发布匹配交易的那一刻，只要它符合您的评级阈值(rating threshold)，您就会知道它。
评级阈值滑块可能是此页面上最重要的选项。默认为+2，这是指在触发警报之前所需的净赞成票数。非数值是指特殊和特色评级。
对于此值，您将希望将Any用于您非常渴望购买的产品，但可能会使用更高的值，例如Popular，用于您仅在交易特别好的情况下才感兴趣的产品，如由社区。
满意后，单击添加警报(Add Alert)按钮。
您可以根据需要添加任意数量的交易，这些交易可以通过关键字、商店或品牌名称(store or brand name)（如果 Slickdeals 支持）来定义。对于商店和品牌，您甚至可以将多个警报组合成一个警报。
如果您最终发现这些交易提醒在网络上很有用，我们绝对建议您在手机上安装该应用程序以获取即时推送通知（如上所示）。
凯帕(Keepa)(Keepa)
如果您听说过CamelCamelCamel，Keepa与此类似，但我们相信Keepa的浏览器(s browser)扩展和图表更加直观和强大。
Keepa是一项亚马逊和 eBay(Amazon and eBay)价格跟踪服务，具有价格历史(price history)图表、价格下降和可用性警报(price drop and availability alerts)等功能。虽然Keepa只支持Amazon 和 eBay(Amazon and eBay)，但这两个店面是电子商务领域的一大块。
Keepa可作为Chrome、Firefox、Opera（通过Chrome 扩展(Chrome extension)）和Internet Explorer上的浏览器扩展(browser extension)使用。Keepa没有移动应用程序，但如果您有电子邮件客户端、 Facebook、Telegram或RSS 阅读器(RSS reader)，您可以在智能手机上了解价格提醒。
创建账户并安装浏览器扩展(browser extension)后，Keepa会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。
在此图表的顶部，您会看到多个选项卡，其中一个是跟踪产品(Track product)— 单击此选项卡将更改视图并为您提供执行此操作的选项。
Keepa支持跟踪(Keepa)亚马逊(Amazon)和第三方卖家销售的新产品和使用的产品。虽然您无法跟踪来自 eBay 的商品，但在亚马逊(Amazon)上跟踪的任何商品也将提供匹配的 eBay 结果的图表。
值得注意的是，共有三种跟踪模式：Basic、Advanced和Pro。基本(Basic)（如上所示）和高级(Advanced)免费提供。高级(Advanced)选项将允许您根据 Lightning Deals 设置价格提醒、添加备忘录和标签、考虑价格中的运输成本等等。
要设置通知首选项，您需要转到 Keepa 网站的设置(Settings)区域。
设置(Set)任何或所有这些以根据需要接收价格警报通知。同样(Again)，虽然Keepa没有原生iOS 或 Android 应用程序(iOS or Android app)，但可以利用这些选项（例如Telegram ），以便在智能手机上轻松查看(Telegram)Keepa通知。
最后，您可以在 Keepa 的跟踪概览(Tracking Overview)页面上查看和管理您当前跟踪的所有项目。
在这里，您可以一目了然地查看当前正在跟踪的所有内容。您还可以批量管理所有产品的单独设置。只需单击和几次击键即可更改任何产品的所需价格。
如果您是吝啬鬼或精明的购物者，Slickdeals 和 Keepa 是天赐(penny pincher)之物。(Keepa)这两种价格提醒工具为您提供了一切优势，无论是在办公桌上还是在智能手机(desk or smartphone)上，都可以在您可能会错过的一些超值优惠上击败其他购物者。一旦你开始收到 Slickdeals 和Keepa 降价(Keepa price)通知，你会想知道你没有早点这样做！
How to Create Price Alerts For Holiday Shopping Deals
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, one of the biggest spending holidays is still on the horizon: Christmas! While savvy shopperѕ may have gotten their Christmas shopping out of the way during the year’s two biggest dayѕ for deals, there arе more sаvings to cоme as retailers work to clear out their inventory before the new year.
With plenty of year-ending online sales left to be scavenged, it’s worth it to know some of the best ways of having the internet do the hardest parts of shopping for you. Comparison shopping is tough and time-consuming, but we know two web services that can save you a lot of time.
If there’s a particular store or item that you’ve got your eye on before Christmas, there are two great ways that you can monitor them and know when great online deals come up or a specific price is met.
In this article, let’s go over these two ways how you can get ahead of other shoppers by using Slickdeals and Keepa for automated price alerts.
If you’re big on shopping, you’ve probably heard of Slickdeals. Slickdeals is fresh off of celebrating its 20th anniversary, offering 20 consecutive days of hand-picked deals to fans of its website. While Slickdeals’ frontpage is a well-recognized revolving door of up-to-date deals, you may not know about arguably its best feature – deal alerts.
Slickdeals’ custom deal alerts have personally saved me hundreds of dollars, if not thousands, and they can do the same for you. All you have to do is sign up for a Slickdeals account and navigate to the Deal Alerts page.
Once you’ve chosen a keyword for a product you’re interested in, add it by typing it and hitting the Enter key. You can then click More Options to fine-tune your price alert.
These options are what make Slickdeals deal alerts so powerful. You can change the target forum, notification method, frequency, and deal rating threshold.
By downloading the Slickdeals app on iOS or Android, you open yourself up to deals on the go with Slickdeals’ mobile push notifications. Selecting instant frequency, rather than daily, means that the moment a matching deal is posted, as long as it meets your rating threshold, you’ll know about it.
The rating threshold slider may be the most important option on this page. Defaulting to +2, this refers to the number of net upvotes required before your alert is triggered. The non-numerical values refer to special and featured ratings.
For this value, you’ll want to use Any for products you’re extremely eager to purchase, but maybe something higher, such as Popular, for a product you’re only interested in if the deal is particularly good, as picked by the community.
When satisfied, click on the Add Alert button.
You can add as many deals as you want, and these can be defined by keyword, or store or brand name (if supported by Slickdeals). For stores and brands, you can even combine multiple into a single alert.
If you end up finding these deal alerts useful on the web, we definitely recommend installing the app on your phone for instant push notifications (as shown above).
If you’ve heard of CamelCamelCamel, Keepa is similar, but we believe that Keepa’s browser extensions and charts are much more intuitive and powerful.
Keepa is an Amazon and eBay price tracking service that features price history charts, price drop and availability alerts, and more. Although Keepa only supports Amazon and eBay, these two storefronts are a massive chunk of the e-commerce space.
Keepa is available as a browser extension on Chrome, Firefox, Opera (through the Chrome extension), and Internet Explorer. There are no mobile apps for Keepa, but you can keep up with price alerts on your smartphone if you have an email client, Facebook, Telegram, or RSS reader.
After creating an account and installing the browser extension, Keepa will automatically show price history charts on every Amazon product page.
Across the top of this chart, you’ll see multiple tabs, one being Track product—clicking this tab will change views and present you with options to do just that.
Keepa supports tracking products sold new and used by Amazon and third-party sellers. While you can’t track items from eBay, any items tracked on Amazon will also offer charting for matched eBay results.
It’s worth noting that there are three tracking modes: Basic, Advanced, and Pro. Basic (shown above) and Advanced are available for free. Advanced options will allow you to set price alerts based on Lightning Deals, add memos and tags, consider shipping costs in prices, and more.
To set up your notification preferences, you need to go to the Settings area of the Keepa website.
Set any or all of these to receive price alert notifications as you desire. Again, while Keepa does not have a native iOS or Android app, these options (such as Telegram) can be leveraged so that Keepa notifications are easily seen on your smartphone.
Lastly, you can see and manage all of your currently tracked items on Keepa’s Tracking Overview page.
Here, you can see everything you’re currently tracking at a glance. You can also bulk manage all of your products’ individual settings. It only takes a click and a few keystrokes to change any product’s desired price.
Slickdeals and Keepa are godsends if you’re a penny pincher or savvy shopper. These two tools for price alerts give you every advantage, at your desk or smartphone, to beat other shoppers to the punch on some great deals that you may otherwise miss. Once you start getting Slickdeals and Keepa price drop notifications, you’ll wonder what you hadn’t done this sooner!
