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Warning - Incoming Giant wall of text
I've seen a lot of random Amazon topics pop up here, most with incorrect or partial information. I don't work for Amazon, but I've been a very long time and prolific customer, and hopefully I can share some tips and tricks that will save you guys some money when shopping with what is easily my favorite retailer.
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The link in my post gets you to camelcamelcamel (referred to here-on as 'CCC') because it's the first thing you should know about Amazon. I have found their browser add-on to be a very useful addition to my Chrome toolbar. CCC is simply a historical on the prices of various items on Amazon. If you sign up and make an account, it also has price drop alert options via email or Twitter as well as the ability to customize watch lists for products you're interested in.
How to use CCC
It's easy to get caught up in trying to get the absolute historical lowest price on an item, but that's only half the functionality of CCC. Look at a volitile product like this Seagate external drive. From the graph, we can see that this drive often hits the historical low of $99.99 - but usually hangs out around $110. If you were unlucky enough to look at the drive when it was priced at $130+, from the chart you can tell that if you can wait a week or so, chances are relatively good that you'll see this product drop in price again soon - saving you anywhere from $20 to $40.
On the flip side, look at this SKIL Drill Press. We can see that the current price of $117.99 is pretty average, so you might be tempted to wait for another historical low point. Well in this case, if you look at the date of the historical low, note the date - November 29th, 2012. That's right in the middle of Amazon's Black Friday sales. Since the only times that this item seems to dip under the $110 mark seem to be around the November time period, you can pretty safely assume that this item only goes on sale as a "door buster" type item. Note that CCC defaults to "ALL" for the date range. If you switch it to either 3mo or 6mo for this item, you can see that this has been pretty stable at the $113.50 - $117.99 range. If you can't wait until November to see if this goes on sale again, chances are pretty high that it won't change price again very soon so you probably won't see a savings if you wait it out a week or two.
CCC also has Popular lists of items that many people are currently tracking. Their Community page is an aggregate of suggested deals from their users. They also have a page that lists the items which have had the most significant price drops recently. Amazon also monitors web traffic, so if an item gets a sudden increase in web traffic to that page, the price often becomes more volatile.
Ok, back to Amazon.com.
The Amazon Shopping Cart
The Amazon shopping cart is sort of a mini version of CCC. Whenever you go shopping on Amazon and place items into your cart, the price reflects whatever the current price is on Amazon. So if you put some shoes in your cart, go to lunch and come back to it an hour later to check out, you may notice a message that says " Important messages about items in your Cart: 1 item in your Cart has changed price.
Items in your Shopping Cart will always reflect the most recent price displayed on their product detail pages."
Save for Later
When you add a few items to your cart and view it, you'll note that there's a two options below the product listing - Delete (obviously to remove the item from your cart) and Save for later. Save for later pulls the item out of your shopping cart and into a separate list called "Saved for Later". Save for Later and your Shopping Cart both keep track of price changes to items. If you had few items that you were thinking about buying but wanted to wait for a price drop, instead of checking the item's page every day, add it to your Saved for Later cart and check it every once and a while. Any changes to prices will be noted at the top of the screen the first time you check after the price changes. Be careful though - if you refresh or click the cart again, the message is gone. Amazon only alerts you the first time you click your cart after the price change. The good thing about Save for Later and your Shopping Cart is that it will list all the changes to all of the items listed in your inventory - even if it spans multiple pages. So if you have 100 items in your Saved for Later list, and Amazon changes the prices on all 100 items, it will list every single change on a single page.
Wish List
Your Wish List isn't just a repository of items you want to eventually grab, it's also another price tracker. Every item in your Wish List remembers the price when it was added. Any change to the price is also noted on the item itself - Price dropped 5% (was $117.28 when added). The Wish List is like a manual version of the Save for Later or Shopping Cart. If you have multiple pages of items, you have to click on each page and scan through the list - there's no bulk summary at the top of the page. The Wish List is great for items that you are moderately interested in, but isn't high on your priority list. You can also build several Wish Lists (and set varying degrees of privacy). I keep one specifically for books, and one with everything else.
Limitations of the Shopping Cart, Save for Later, and Wish List
Note that any item added to any of the three lists above only reflect the price from the seller you added it from. In other words, if you added an item sold by Amazon Warehouse, and the price for Amazon.com drops lower, it will only tell you if the price changed for Amazon Warehouse. The same goes for any third party sellers. You should also know that the historical price change notification on both the Shopping Cart and Save for Later does tend to glitch out now and then. They removed the functionality completely for a few weeks last year either as part of an upgrade process, or simply forgot about it. Either way, there was quite a few requests for the functionality to be re-added, so it's back now. However it seems like if Amazon.com has any problems whatsoever, this is the first thing to go missing. So if you're watching a specific item intently, it doesn't hurt to manually track it or use CCC.
Amazon Warehouse
There seems to be a lot of questions about Amazon Warehouse - hopefully this will help a few of you out.
The Warehouse is Amazon's version of the "Open Box" or "Customer Returned" or "Damaged" isle at a big box store. It is not the same as the Amazon Outlet. The biggest difference between the Outlet and the Warehouse is that the Outlet items are considered New goods (although they do have refurbs), where as the Warehouse items have been opened and/or used previously. Warehouse items are limited in number and are often not marked down as much as you might think. The Outlet is comprised of items that have usually hit the 30% or more markdown price point (from MSRP). They're usually seasonal or overstocked items.
Biggest tips with the Warehouse:
Here's the same one on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/3320-02-120-Volt-10-Inch-Drill-Press/dp/B003LSSS0W/ref=pd_ybh_7
As someone working through this but a few years ahead of you, I'll pass along the list of stuff I've bought and/or wish to buy...
Hand Tools
Power Tools
Also, there are fluids to consider
Of these, I'd focus on the hand tools, fluids, and the Dremel. You can always ask someone to buy you a saw for Christmas. If you have these things on hand, there probably won't be a job come along that you can't handle at some basic level. I'm assuming you don't need yard grooming tools, because that's an entirely different list.
So I have recently started doing my own scale work. It is quite fun but can be tedious work with how precise you MUST be for drilling screws or the knife wont go back together properly. Blade centering can be screwed up etc.
Anyways the main tools that I use are as follows:
Skil Drill press
Dremel 4000
Dremel Shaper Table
Swivel Benchtop Vise
You will still need other assorted accessories like sanding wheels, cutting wheels (if you dont have a table saw for cutting down G10/Wood/Whatever media). While I am not a pro and I am just starting these are the essentials. Please feel free to PM me or email me [email protected] if you have any other questions. I would be more than happy to help. It is extremely rewarding when you complete a set. The first few may not be perfect but you MADE them yourself :)
The only 2 I have successfully completed. I still need to work on my pattern technique
I'm using a 2x48 Dayton belt grinder
A little cheapo Skill drill press
A 5" vise
A kydex press (Homemade)
A little buffer
A dremel tool + Kit
Tons and tons of abrasives
A lot of files
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Here's a few from my instagram :) https://imgur.com/a/6o8zm41
https://www.amazon.com/SKIL-3320-01-10-Inch-Drill-Press/dp/B003LSSS0W