A deals site that only repeats a store's "was $X" label is a billboard for the store. We wanted something better, so since September 19, 2026 we keep our own record.
What we record
Every fetch cycle (every 10 minutes, every 5 during sale events), each offer that passes our filters is stored with its store, product identifier and price. Once a day, that becomes a data point in our price history. As of this writing that is more than 27,000 data points across more than 7,000 products at 25 stores. The set grows every day.
We record the price the source showed, not the list price. List prices are the store's claim; the price is what you would pay.
What you see on the offer page
Once a product has been recorded on more than one day, the offer page shows the price history. It is a simple line: dates on the bottom, price on the side. Three things are worth reading from it:
- Flat line. The price has not moved. If the offer also says "40% off", that 40% is against a list price nobody was charged in the period we watched. It might still be a fair price; it is not a drop.
- Line that falls today. A real cut. Today's price is below what we saw before.
- Line that fell and came back up. A short sale that ended. The "before" price is the real price; the low point tells you what to wait for.
When we have only one data point, we do not draw a chart and we do not claim anything. A single day is not history.
The green "lowest price we've seen" mark
When today's price is the lowest in our record for that product at that store, and we have at least a week of data, the offer gets a green mark. This is the mark to look for. It is the only claim on our site that comes from our own data and not from the store.
The mark is honest but young. Our record started in September 2026, so "lowest we've seen" means "lowest since September", not "lowest ever". As the record grows, the mark gets stronger. We say the date range on the page so you can judge for yourself.
What we do not do
- We do not scrape stores for prices of products we are not listing. The record is of the deals we published.
- We do not estimate or fill in missing days. A gap in the chart is a gap.
- We do not show Amazon prices in text while we are an Amazon Associate without their API. Amazon's program rules require it, and we would rather follow the rule than lose the ability to link. Click through; the price on Amazon is the real one.
Other tools you should use
For Amazon products specifically, CamelCamelCamel and Keepa have years of history and browser extensions. For everything else, there is no equivalent public database. That is the gap we are filling, one day at a time.