[PaulHoule]

I went though a phase when I was happy to get a daily email from Best Buy and frequently saw an offer I liked, also I was a fan of Ars Technica’s Dealmaster, but about a year before the pandemic both of these seemed to go downhill (Amazon Fire Tables are on sale… again. XBox Gold is on sale… again)

I got back into having fun shopping for electronics when I encountered the YouTuber techmoan who got me buying things on EBay again after a ten year hiatus.

I’ve thought about an intelligent shopping agent that would extract offers from web sites, emails and such and filter really good ones. I have taken an occasional stab at it but it takes some discipline, after spending a few days or weeks getting the thing running it is tempting to buy something right away to close the cycle but you are only going to get an exceptional deal if you wait.