New Site Feature: Blu-ray Price History
HomeNew Site Feature: Blu-ray Price History
Posted August 11, 2009 10:01 AM by Juan Calonge
Just a week after the site's price tracker went online, we are proud to announce the launch of yet another site feature that will help you shop smartly for BDs: the title price history. With this feature you can display the price an individual title has had in the recent past. This will help you decide whether it is a good time to buy that title or not.
To see the price history of a title, just go to the movie page. On the right-hand column you'll see a small graph icon. Just place your mouse pointer on that icon and the history graph will pop up. The graph also displays the highest and lowest prices, along with the current one.
The price history can also be opened directly from the New Blu-ray Deals page.
You can open the price history for titles on any Amazon site, including Canada, the UK, France, Germany and Japan.
You can use this in conjunction with the price tracker to see how realistic your price target is before setting it.
For example, let us say (again) that you are interested in 'The Bourne Trilogy', which has an MSRP of $119.98 and as of this writing goes for $72.99, or 39% off. Is that really a good price? To find out, you hover your mouse over the icon and the following graph will come up:
As you can see, it was about $65 during February. Then, it shot up to $74.99 (its highest historical price) until early May, when it went up and down for a while. In early June, it dropped briefly to $64.99 (lowest historical price), before going back up again to $72.99 (the current price). So you might want to wait for a better price. If so, it would be advisable to set the price tracker for this title with a target of $68 or even $65.
On the other hand, if you look up the price history for 'When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions', you'll get this:
So you see that this title is currently at its lowest price ever, and that if you want it, you should buy now!
Note that the pricing information only goes as far back as February 2009.
To see the price history of a title, just go to the movie page. On the right-hand column you'll see a small graph icon. Just place your mouse pointer on that icon and the history graph will pop up. The graph also displays the highest and lowest prices, along with the current one.
The price history can also be opened directly from the New Blu-ray Deals page.
You can open the price history for titles on any Amazon site, including Canada, the UK, France, Germany and Japan.
You can use this in conjunction with the price tracker to see how realistic your price target is before setting it.
For example, let us say (again) that you are interested in 'The Bourne Trilogy', which has an MSRP of $119.98 and as of this writing goes for $72.99, or 39% off. Is that really a good price? To find out, you hover your mouse over the icon and the following graph will come up:
As you can see, it was about $65 during February. Then, it shot up to $74.99 (its highest historical price) until early May, when it went up and down for a while. In early June, it dropped briefly to $64.99 (lowest historical price), before going back up again to $72.99 (the current price). So you might want to wait for a better price. If so, it would be advisable to set the price tracker for this title with a target of $68 or even $65.
On the other hand, if you look up the price history for 'When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions', you'll get this:
So you see that this title is currently at its lowest price ever, and that if you want it, you should buy now!
Note that the pricing information only goes as far back as February 2009.