Bonus: An Amazon money-saving animal

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All it takes is a quick search and, in just a few seconds, your next gadget or a pallet of tomato soup is on its way to your door. But wait, did you get a good deal? Could you have saved fifty bucks if you waited a week? Will you really eat all that tomato soup before it expires? I know what you're thinking — you don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about this. That's why CamelCamelCamel is so useful. (It can't eat any of that tomato soup for you, though.) CamelCamelCamel will show you a price history of any Amazon product in a single click — and it will let you set up alerts so you can get an email when something goes on sale for your desired price, if you like. It's free, too. #top Amazon shopping, with a twist Meet CamelCamelCamel, a free website with some optional browser extensions. ⌚ The website will take you 10 seconds to use, and you can look up any Amazon product's price history in just 2 seconds if you install the browser extension. ➜ You can use CamelCamelCamel on the web from any device — phone or computer — or install the browser extension on any desktop operating system. - To use the website, just pull up [CamelCamelCamel.com](=) and search for the name of a product. (Or, you can copy-paste the web address of a page on Amazon.com to find a product's price history.) - For easy access from your browser's toolbar, install [the Camelizer extension](=) for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or your desktop browser of choice. Head to Amazon and click the Camelizer extension button to see the price history of a product. Once you're looking at the price history, you'll have some idea of whether the product is a good deal now — or not. [CamelCamelCamel in Google Chrome.] If the price is a little high and it looks like sales are common, you can create a free CamelCamelCamel account right from the website or browser extension. Set up a price watch for your product of choice right there, and you'll get an email when it hits your desired price. I used these alerts to buy an Ecobee smart thermostat earlier this year. They were $250, but CamelCamelCamel told me they frequently fell to $220 every few months. I set the alert, forgot about it — and then got an email when the product hit my desired price a few weeks later. Boom, easy savings! 📌 You can [use CamelCamelCamel on its website](=) or install the [Camelizer browser extension](=). 💰 This service is free. 🕶 CamelCamelCamel promises it [collects as little data as possible](). The browser extension only functions on Amazon's website and CamelCamelCamel.com, according to [its privacy policy](). 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