Best price on Amazon: Find bargains instead of high prices
Finding the cheapest price on Amazon is not that easy. After all, the online giant turns prices about 3 million times a day. And is Amazon always the cheapest? No more numbers! We show you how to recognize bargains and always find the cheapest price.
Cheapest price on Amazon: How to find out
- On Amazon you can often get a higher price if you have viewed the item several times in the past few days. Amazon then knows that you are very interested in the product and the shop can charge a higher price. Otherwise, the prices can vary.
- This helps: You can find out the currently lowest price on Amazon in private mode. It is available for all browsers on computers and smartphones.
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Use price fluctuations: When is the item cheapest?
According to Boomerang boss Guru Hariharan, there have been 10 billion price fluctuations in the last Christmas season. However, it is difficult for customers to understand whether the item is particularly expensive or a bargain. How to keep an eye on the prices:
- The Camelcamelcamel.com website monitors all prices and products on Amazon. If you search for a specific product, the price history is displayed. With expensive products in particular, the Camelcamelcamel price alert can help you make a great bargain after a few days.
- In the next article you will find more ways to monitor prices on Amazon.
- Our tip: Let the price alert notify you when the price is particularly low.
Find the cheapest price on Amazon: Search cleverly
- If you enter the exact name of the product in the search bar, you will also see the exact product. But maybe there is the same product under a different name from a cheaper manufacturer?
- Our tip: Change the search term and enter only one or two keywords. Now other articles slide up in the results and you can still find a lot of bargains with the filter "Sort by" and "cheapest price + shipping costs".
- By the way, you should always keep an eye on the shipping costs: Sometimes you save a few euros on one product, but in the end the total price is much higher due to the shipping costs.
Price fluctuations: The differences are really that big
Here are a few examples of strong price fluctuations on Amazon:
- 45 percent cheaper: The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge cost around 850 euros at Amazon from April to early July. By December the price fluctuated more than 16 times between 660 euros and 803 euros. In mid-December it then fell to 590 euros.
- 35 percent cheaper: Star Wars Monopoly cost 35 euros until the end of November. You have been saving 35 percent since the beginning of December: the game is now available for around 26 euros.
- 40 percent cheaper: Amazon sold the microwave JT 469 at the end of August for 350 euros. Now it only costs 250 euros, making it a whopping 40 percent cheaper.
Attention: No low price guarantee at Amazon
- Amazon does not always have the cheapest price because there is not always a low price guarantee. Therefore, you should definitely compare all prices. In the CHIP price comparison you can see whether Saturn or Media Markt are not cheaper.
- Nevertheless, particularly popular products are often cheaper on Amazon, because Amazon wants to gain a "cheap image". The idea behind it: If customers believe that Amazon is always cheaper, they also add other, more expensive products to their shopping cart. It is therefore worthwhile to take a closer look: to make a bargain and to recognize expensive products.
- Tip: You can also get many products cheaper if you redeem a promotional code.
On the next page we show how you can save on shipping costs at Amazon.