# Any programs that give notifications about items listed on craigslist or amazon

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**Created:** [June 3, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-programs-that-give-notifications-about-items-listed-on-craigslist-or-amazon/541726 "2010-06-03T03:11:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-programs-that-give-notifications-about-items-listed-on-craigslist-or-amazon/541726/1 "2010-06-03T03:11:53Z")

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On amazon or craigslist sometimes an item is listed a reasonable amount below what everyone else is offering (usually due to financial desperation). An example is an item that normally goes for $150 might have someone sell it for $100, and it’ll be bought within a few hours. So you have the regular price on a used object, then you have rare instances where someone wants to sell an item ASAP so they list it below the regular selling price of a used item.

Is there a software program where you enter the description of the item you want, a maximum price, the website you want to purchase it from ([half.com](http://half.com), amazon, craigslist, etc) and when something is listed at that price it sends you a text message or email so you can purchase it at the lower price?

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**Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-programs-that-give-notifications-about-items-listed-on-craigslist-or-amazon/541726/2 "2010-06-03T06:54:18Z")

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For Craigslist, you can save any search as an RSS feed and use any ol’ newsreader.

For Amazon, there a bunch of Firefox extensions that might work:  
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=amazon+watch&cat=all](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=amazon+watch&cat=all)

(I’ve never used 'em)