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With Amazon's October Prime Day coming up this week, deals and discounts are top of mind. It can be overwhelming to sift through all the deals to see what's worth the discount, but luckily, ZDNET has years of experience finding the best sales that are actually worth your money.
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To help you shop more efficiently during Amazon Prime Day (Oct. 7-8), we broke down how to spot a good deal based on a product's price history and what to look for.
We looked at the top ZDNET products (based on our best list picks and what readers are searching for and buying) to come up with our list of products to compare prices. Here are the products we chose and their current prices at the time of publication:
We also chose a handful of budget products (priced at $200 or less) to showcase the difference of discounts with cheaper devices.
How we compared deal prices
Using the Camel Camel Camel Google Chrome plugin, we were able to see a product's pricing over time using the deal-tracking system's advanced algorithm. We chose the parameters of lowest price, highest price, and average price so that readers can clearly see the difference in prices.
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