How to use Keepa to save money during Black Friday 2021
Here’s how you can leverage Keepa on your browser to check the price history of Amazon products to get the best deals this Black Friday.
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Black Friday is considered the biggest shopping day of the year, and in 2021, stores like Amazon will be offering a lot of deals, even before Thanksgiving Day and through Cyber Monday (and beyond).
Although during this time, you will be presented with a lot of bargains fromWindows 11 laptopsand desktops deals to office supplies, and many other items for home and entertainment, you’re likely to stumble upon offerings that might not be good deals, and this is when Keepa can come in handy.
Keepa is an online service that tracks the price history of products on Amazon. The extension forWindows 11and other operating systems gives you an embedded view of the historical data within the product page to make sure you can make an informed purchase. Also, if the item isn’t at your desired price, you can create a tracker, and you will receive a notification as soon as the price drops to something you can afford.
In this Windows 11 guide, we will walk you through the steps to set up and use Keepa to track an Amazon product’s pricing history to get only the best deals on Black Friday 2021.
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How to install Keepa on a web browser
Whether you use Windows 11 or Windows 10, you can use Keepa in the most popular browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome as well as Opera and Safari.
Install extension on Edge
To install the Keepa extension on Microsoft Edge, use these steps:
Install extension on Firefox
To install Keepa in Firefox, use these steps:
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Install extension on Chrome
To install Keepa for Google Chrome, use these steps:
Once you complete the steps, Keepa will install on the browser to help you check the price history of products during the Black Friday 2021 sales event from Amazon.
How to use Keepa to check price history on Amazon
To check Amazon products price history, use these steps:
ThePrice historypage includes the graph showing the price history of a particular product from Amazon and third-party sellers. Theorangechart shows the product sold and fulfill by Amazon. Thepurplechart shows the history for third-party sellers, and thegraychart is for used products from third-party sellers and Amazon.
On the right side, you have various options to customize the view. You can click each item to show or hide information to focus only on the data you need to make an informed decision.
TheRangeoption (at the bottom of the list) lets you change the history range. Usually, you want to use the “3 Months” or “Year” options.
Once you analyze the data, you can determine whether the product has a Black Friday price or something you can buy at any other time. However, you should not rely only on historical data. It’s also recommended to research online to make sure the product is the same or cheaper elsewhere. Sometimes, this can help save a significant amount of money.
How to use Keepa to track prices on Amazon
Although you can use the extension to check the price history of Amazon products during Black Friday, if you want to track products and receive alerts, you will need to create a free account.
Create account
To create a Keepa account, use these steps:
Once you complete the steps, you can add Amazon products to track their prices and get alerts.
Create price tracker
To create a tracker to monitor an Amazon product during Black Friday 2021, use these steps:
After you complete the steps, Keepa will monitor the price and notify you when it reaches the desired price.
As you create more price tackers, you can view the complete list on yourKeepa account, where you can also delete items you no longer need.
How to customize settings on Keepa
In your Keepa account, you can also manage various settings to make it a little easier to track prices during Black Friday 2021, Prime Day, or any other sales event.
To change the Keepa settings, use these steps:
Once you complete the steps, the changes will save automatically, and they will become the default when using the extension on the browser.
Since Keepa is a browser extension, these instructions should work whether you use Windows 11, Windows 10, macOS, or Linux.
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Mauro Huculak has been a Windows How-To Expert contributor for WindowsCentral.com for nearly a decade and has over 15 years of experience writing comprehensive guides. He also has an IT background and has achieved different professional certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, and CompTIA. He has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for many years.
