How to get a price drop alert for any product, from any shop
You’ve found the thing you want, but not at the price you want to pay. So you keep a tab open, check it every few days, and miss the one weekend it went on sale.
The short version: send Tamo the product, the shop and your price, like “let me know when a brand new Shokz OpenMove on Amazon drops below 6000 TL”. It checks the page on a schedule and sends you a Telegram message when the price goes under your number. Until then, you hear nothing.
Here’s how that went for one pair of running headphones in Turkey, from “what are those called again?” to a working price alert.
Start with what you want, not the exact name
It doesn’t need to be precise. Bone conduction headphones sit on your cheekbones instead of in your ears, so you still hear traffic on a run. The brand name is the part people forget:
The prices came from Shokz’s own Turkish site, so the list matches what’s actually sold there.
Compare shops, then look closer
The OpenMove was the one to get. Next question: who sells it for less?
That last message is the useful one. The cheapest result was a display unit with a damaged box, and you couldn’t buy it anyway. Tamo only noticed because it opened the listing and read it, not just the price next to it.
Ask for the alert
A sealed, brand-new OpenMove was still above 6.000 TL everywhere. So instead of checking again tomorrow, hand the waiting to Tamo. You can watch whichever shop you’d rather buy from; this one went on Amazon:
The 👀 message is the watch itself: which site, how often, and what it’s waiting for. Its Stop button ends it whenever you like, and /tasks lists everything Tamo is keeping an eye on for you, with buttons to pause or delete each one.
If Tamo found the shop itself, rather than you naming it, it asks before checking a new site:
What happens after that
Tamo writes a small check for that one page and runs it once while you’re still in the chat. That test run is where “right now it’s at 9.358,83 TL” comes from: if the check can’t read the price, you find out now, not a week later. After that, the check runs on its own on the schedule, without the AI. Shop pages are checked at most once an hour; for simpler pages you can ask for anything from every 15 minutes to once a day.
You don’t get an hourly “still 9.358 TL”. When the price goes under 6.000 TL, a message arrives starting with 🔔 and the shop’s address. If that happens in the middle of the night, it waits until the morning. The watch keeps going after that, so stop it once you’ve bought.
Shops redesign their pages, and a check that read the price yesterday can break today. When a check fails a few times in a row, Tamo tries to fix it. If it can’t, it pauses the watch and tells you, with buttons to keep trying or stop.
Why not a price tracker extension?
If you only shop on Amazon, trackers like Keepa or CamelCamelCamel do this well, and they show price history too. The trouble is that the best price is often somewhere else: here, HiFiLife and Trendyol were both well under Amazon. A watch in Tamo works on any public shop page, in any country, and you set it up by describing what you want instead of filling in a form.
Tips for an alert that works
- Say what counts. “Brand new” in the request above keeps display units, refurbished ones and second-hand listings out of it.
- Point it at one product page. Search results mix in cases, cables and other colours, and their prices could set off the alert by mistake, so Tamo won’t watch a price on a search page. If it has already found the listing, “watch that page” is the clearest way to ask.
- Name the shop if you care which one. Otherwise say so (“any shop in Turkey is fine”), and Tamo will pick the listing to watch.
- Give a number. “Below 6000 TL” is something a check can decide on its own. “When it’s cheap” isn’t.
- Keep it to public pages. A page you have to sign in to see, like a members-only price, can’t be watched yet.
The same works for concert tickets, a rental listing or something coming back in stock: if you could check it on a public web page yourself, Tamo can check it for you.