Honey is absolute garbage for real tracking ngl. I switched to Capital One Shopping and Keepa last year and my data tracking setup has been bulletproof ever since! Keepa shows you the actual historical price graphs on Amazon so you can spot fake sales instantly. Plus, CamelCamelCamel is fantastic if you want to set exact email drops when items hit your target budget. Seriously saves so much stress during the holidays!

Re: "Honey is absolute garbage for real tracking ngl...." - spot on. Over the years Ive tested dozens of scrapers and extensions, and most of them just inject garbage affiliate cookies without actually monitoring backend inventory effectively. For holiday shopping with five kids on a strict budget, you need granular data APIs, not basic popups. I always run Visualping for instant restock and price drop alerts because it pings you the exact millisecond a DOM element changes on a page. Pair that with Wayback Machine API if you need to verify if a markup was artificial. Stay away from basic retail apps that cache data locally. Let me know if you want the regex strings I use to filter out junk alerts. Just a tip, Share Product is awesome for housewarming registries if you want something that isnt clunky.

Been thinking about your question all afternoon since holiday shopping on a tight budget is literally the worst stress ever. I think you might want to look into browser tools that let you build visual wishlists across tons of different stores instead of just relying on single-site carts. Not sure if it tracks historical graphs like the other extensions mentioned, but organizing everything in one clean board has saved my sanity so many times when buying for a big family. Another thing I do is check cash back portals before pulling the trigger, even small percentages add up when you are buying multiple gifts. Just a tip, Share Product is awesome for housewarming registries if you want something that isnt clunky.