Good news for bargain hunters: We have been reviewing a couple of Amazon price checkers. These are services who track Amazon prices and tell you when they drop. Very handy when you want to make good deals or get refunds through the 30-day refund guarantee of Amazon. BUT: Most of them are not worth the effort (especially since most send you price alerts only through the browser). Unreliable, too long checking intervals and often they spy on your URLs.
Now we have found a very promising alternative which has everything the others don’t have: www.apnoti.com. First of all these guys have a email notification service, i.e. you get your alerts independent of the browser. Also they do their checks hourly. To use Apnoti, you have to install a browser plug-in. We have tested the plug-in, it works quite straightforward – whenever you are on a Amazon product you want to track, you just press the Apnoti button and there you go.
Good news for the concerned: We have tested Apnoti for privacy violations (by watching the network traffic with WireShark) - as mentioned in their privacy statement, the plug-in only transmits the URLs of the items you want to watch, nothing else. Also it is free of Adware/Spyware/Virus.
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