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Ask HN: How to find if a product is "really" on sale?

by siddharthgoel88 on 11/26/21, 12:41 PM with 8 comments

As I have noticed that article from bbc.com on fake Black Friday sale, the questions comes down to how the user would know if the prices have really dropped or it is just a price manipulation game by the platforms like Amazon.

On searching around a bit, I stumbled upon https://pricehistory.in/ which has a kind of price audit of products on different Indian platforms which is kind of cool and I will try this out. But are there other such platforms which solve this problem? Does someone here use some useful tips/tricks to buy a product at optimal price?

  • by trinovantes on 11/26/21, 1:08 PM

    camelcamelcamel for Amazon price history

  • by leephillips on 11/26/21, 12:55 PM

    I don’t understand why people care about this. The only relevant price is the one you have to pay now, and the only question for you is if the thing is worth that price to you now.

    Perhaps if you’re buying something as an investment, and are trying to predict the future price—but even then, the price in the past doesn’t tell you much.