ShadowBid

Smart shopping, the concept of investing a reasonable amount of time and effort in seeking the best possibility or the best time for buying a product.

Even though Amazon has over 240 million customers worldwide and it's definitely one of the most successful e-commerce services out there, it also has some of the most staggering prince fluctuations, making it quite challenging for smart shoppers all round. That said, if you're the type of shopper who likes to keep an eye on price fluctuations on various products as closely as possible, then you might find ShadowBid to be a very interesting tool.

In principle, this tiny Chrome extension helps you thoroughly monitor price fluctuations on Amazon, thus allowing you to make calculated decisions on buying your much-desired products, whatever they may be.

That's not all it can offer: you can also place bids on various products. What this means is that you can assign a price which you think is fair for a particular product and, if you're lucky and the price drops to or below the price in question, this little extension will automatically buy it for you.

The extension boasts a modern looking and quite intuitive UI with dedicated sections for your bids, your Watchlist products, notifications, and other account settings. One of the highlights of this extension stems from the fact that it provides you with a uber-useful price fluctuation chart. This way, you can gain an approximate view over the price evolutions and possibly even guess a future possible price drop.

Getting it up and running is by no means complicated, but you may just want to read this part carefully since we've discovered an annoying bug, as well as the means to bypass it. As with most Chrome Web Store extensions, it makes its presence known right next to Chrome's address bar after its installation.

The extension remains inactive until you visit Amazon, more specifically, you have to be on a product's page for it to work as intended. Before that, though, you are required to log in to Amazon and activate the extension. At this point, you may encounter some problems when the extension should sync with your Amazon account. To bypass this issue, opt for the "Sign Up" button to set it up initially by following the step-by-step procedure.

It's quite clear that ShadowBid is fantastic companion for every smart, Amazon shopaholic. At the end of the day, this is an extension that is not only extremely convenient to use, but that can also save you a lot of money on Amazon.