I've been using CamelCamelCamel and Keepa for years to handle my holiday shopping and tech upgrades but I'm hitting a wall with this latest search. I'm trying to grab a specific Sony lens for a shoot I have coming up in ten days and the price is all over the place. I keep getting these price drop emails from my usual trackers but by the time I open the link, literally three minutes after the email hits my inbox, the price has already jumped back up or the warehouse deal is gone. It feels like the lag is getting worse or maybe the bots are just faster now? I'm trying to stay under a strict $1,100 budget for this and it keeps hitting $1,050 for like five seconds before bouncing back to $1,300.

I even tried a basic python script a buddy gave me but it kept getting flagged by Amazons bot detection or whatever and I'm not really a coder anyway so I couldnt fix it. I need something that can actually give me an instant alert on my phone the millisecond the price changes. Is there a specific service or maybe a better way to configure a tracker so it doesn't have that 15-20 minute delay because its driving me crazy missing these deals. How do I actually set up reliable automatic alerts that work in real-time?