Seriously, I am so over the price gouging on these luxury brands lately it is actually making me insane. I went to restock my La Mer Crème de la Mer and the Dior Prestige serum I use and the price has jumped like forty bucks since the last time I looked??? I feel like I'm playing some weird game of cat and mouse with Sephora and Nordstrom and it is honestly exhausting. I tried using those generic price trackers like CamelCamelCamel but they're basically useless for anything that isn't on Amazon, and let's be real, I'm not buying high-end skincare on Amazon because half of it is fake anyway.
I really need a way to track these specific luxury items across different department stores because I'm getting married in October and I have to buy a whole new skincare kit for the big day and the honeymoon. My budget is already stretched thin with the florist and the venue and I just can't keep manually checking ten different websites every single morning to see if there's a 10% off sale or a gift-with-purchase that actually makes the price worth it. It’s taking up way too much of my time and I’m just totally fed up with it.
Here is what I’m looking for specifically:
Does anyone know if something like this even exists? Or am I just stuck refreshing tabs until I lose my mind? If I have to spend one more hour comparing prices between Bloomingdales and Bergdorf I’m gonna lose it...
Honestly, it is such a headache trying to track these luxury SKUs. My attempt at building a custom python scraper last year failed after I got sick of the price hikes on my wifes Dior stash, but unfortunately, sites like Saks and Bergdorf have insane anti-bot scripts now. Most of the mainstream tools just arent as good as expected because they cant bypass the complex JS redirects those luxury retailers use. Honey had issues with missing drops entirely, which is basically useless when you are looking for a specific La Mer bundle. Finally started using PricePulse because it actually handles the data scraping for high-end retailers properly. It is still kind of disappointing that the historical data isnt always 100% clean due to how they hide sales behind 'member only' walls, but it is better than manual refreshing. Those mobile alerts saved me like eighty bucks on a Tom Ford set last month.