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Updates to price alerts and product pages



A few weeks ago, we introduced product price alerts that lets you know when a price has dropped on the gadgets you want. Today, we're excited to announce some cool new improvements to our price alerts system.

Simplified price alerts with Want list integration

We wanted to make price alerts as easy and seamless as possible, so we've integrated price alerts with gdgt Want lists. Any time you add a product you have your eye on to your Want list, we'll make sure you know when the price price drops. Of course you can still get price alerts for any product, even if it isn't on your Want list. Simply click the "Get Price Alert" button on our product pages and you'll start getting price alerts for any model for that product.

Bulk emails, daily or weekly

We've also updated our price alert system that now supports daily and weekly price alerts. These options deliver you a digest that includes any price drops for the products you want in a single email. We think daily is the way to go, but if you'd like to change the frequency your options, just head over to your user preferences: gdgt.com­/settings­/­#preferences.

Updated UI for the product page

Finally, we made some UI tweaks to the product pages that makes it easier for you to navigate around, including giving some more love to our product overviews and conclusions.

Enjoy!

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KenMedlen

Like it! If you could also make this work with LowerThis.com, that would be great. It's the site you've looked at which is the community of experts that finds you the lowest price for all your online purchases. Saves both time and money!
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Tensuke

Hey, I like the update, but would it be possible to set a minimum dollar amount or percentage of the price that a gadget has to be lowered by in order to be emailed? I'm constantly getting emails about things dropping in price when they only drop by $3 or $4.
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cass

Yup, we're gathering data to see what is a good threshold to set on price alerts and will be making some tweaks on minimum price drops that will warrant an alert to be sent.
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Genjinaro

This is awesome, looking forward to that.
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Tensuke

Alright cool, thanks for the quick reply! :D
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icu

Awesome - this is a killer feature that should bring any fan of tech running to sign up.

I wonder if this would be possible (or it may already be) for tracking cell phone prices either directly from the carriers or via 3rd parties such as Amazon Wireless?
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cass

Yup, this is something we're working on!
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falleninsea

Great update and i like the weekly summary e-mail for the price changes. i think that makes more sense at least for me than a daily one especially as we head into the holiday season where gadgets are going to start going on sale. i would hate to imagine how much mail that could generate on a daily basis.

also i wanted to thank you all for constantly tweaking and improving the site to make it better. Gdgt is one the sites i feel is must visit when researching new products i want to try and also a great resource for answers about those products.
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