How to find the best Prime Day deals

By James On Jul 3, 2023

Amazon Prime Day 2023 will take place on July 11 and July 12, but there are already some solid early Prime Day deals you can get, including invite-only deals on some of Amazon’s Fire TVs and more. Once the big day arrives, Polygon rounds up the best deals on games, accessories, toys, and other associated geeks you can find on Amazon and competing retailers.

However, if you’re more interested in finding the best deals yourself, there are some excellent tools out there to keep an eye on price cuts. Below, we’ve outlined some of our favorite free apps, along with some helpful strategies to make sure you don’t miss out on discounts on your favorite products.

Track Prime Day price drops with these tools

CamelCamelCamel

CamelCamelCamel, strange as the name may be, remains one of the best tools for tracking price changes and history for products specifically on Amazon. While you don’t need an account to view pricing information available through the app, creating a profile allows you to set up watchlists and receive email price alerts for your favorite products. You are welcome to manually populate your own watchlist, but the app also allows you to import any existing Amazon wishlist into your CamelCamelCamel profile.

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However, CamelCamelCamel and the Camelizer browser extension link to it only provide information about products on Amazon, so you’ll need a different set of tools if you’re shopping at Best Buy, Target, GameStop, or anywhere else during Prime Day.

Hold one

Finally, we have the Keepa extension, which is not much different from CamelCamelCamel. It allows you to import your Amazon wishlist and track prices for specific products. While Keepa only tracks price history for Amazon products, the extension automatically populates virtually every product page with a detailed chart of price fluctuations over time. By opening the “Track Product” tab, you can set up alerts that notify you when a product matches or drops below a certain price, just like other tracking tools.

A screenshot of an Amazon product page with an embedded price history chart from Keepa

Honey

With Honey and its extension, you can track price history changes for specific products, as well as across a number of retailers, not just Amazon. As an added bonus, Honey also automatically searches for promo codes when you check out at a supported retailer.

While setting up a Honey account doesn’t allow you to import existing wish lists from other retailers, the Smart Droplist feature will automatically populate your Droplist with items in your “Saved for later” cart on Amazon, and will also track the price of frequently viewed items at select retailers. Make sure to enable this feature if you want to take advantage of it.

Slick deals

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

Let Alexa remind you

For Prime members who have an Echo smart speaker, you can choose to receive deal alerts on certain products up to 24 hours before they go live. The Alexa app can alert you to price drops on eligible products that you have in your cart, wishlist, or saved for later.

To enable this feature, go to the notifications menu under settings in your Alexa mobile app and open Amazon Shopping. In the Amazon Shopping menu, scroll down to Shopping Recommendations and enable Offer Recommendations. Note that enabling this feature won’t let Alexa hear when a product goes on sale, but you’ll still get a yellow notification ring on your Echo devices, in addition to an alert on your mobile device.

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Be sure to check out invite-only deals

As we mentioned at the top of this post, Amazon has already made some excellent Prime Day deals available on a number of Fire TVs and other products, but some of them come with a catch. You have to be invited first, but to be honest, it’s less of an invitation and more of a request. Just find a participating product and click “Request Invite”. If Amazon can fulfill your order, you’ll receive an email notification on Prime Day with instructions on how to checkout with your exclusive loot. The number of invite-only deals is currently quite limited, but that could change as we get closer to Prime Day.

Prime Day isn’t just for Amazon anymore

Just in case Amazon didn’t discount a particular product you were looking for, you might want to check out what deals are being offered at other retailers. Rest assured that there will be plenty of other outlets vying for your attention around July 11, and while they may not be offering dramatically lower prices, retailers like Best Buy, walmartAnd Goal they all have price matching policies that may match those available on Amazon.