Deal Spotter
Deal Spotter — Modak's price-watching tool for Amazon products, how it works and how alerts arrive.
What is Deal Spotter and how does it work?
Deal Spotter is a price-watching tool inside the Modak app. Paste an Amazon product link, set the price you’d be happy to pay, and Deal Spotter monitors that product’s price. When it drops to your number — or takes a genuinely big fall — you get a notification. Deal Spotter only watches prices and shows their history: it doesn’t buy anything, and no purchases or payments happen inside the feature.
Buying still works exactly as it always has — outside Deal Spotter, on Amazon.
Read this on its own page →Who can use it?
Anyone on the MoGold or MoSilver plans — teens and parents alike, each from their own app. Everyone’s watchlist is their own: you choose what to watch and set your own target prices. Users on the Mobasic plan can see the feature and upgrade to use it. Using Deal Spotter doesn’t change anything.
Read this on its own page →How many products can I watch — and what happens when I hit the limit?
Up to 5 products at a time, per user (each person’s limit is their own — one family member’s watches don’t count against another’s). When you’re already watching 5 and try to add a new one, the app will let you know you’re at the limit and ask you to remove one first. Removing a watch stops its alerts and takes it off your list right away — if it was an accident, you get a few seconds to undo. Removing something doesn’t affect the product or anything on Amazon; you can always watch it again later by pasting the link fresh, and its price history will still be there.
Read this on its own page →Where do the notifications arrive?
On your phone, as push notifications from the Modak app — the same place your other Modak notifications arrive. Alerts go only to the person who created the watch: each user gets alerts for their own watchlist, nobody else’s. Tapping a notification opens the watched product with its price and history. If notifications are turned off for the Modak app in the phone’s settings, price alerts won’t be delivered.
Read this on its own page →When exactly do I get notified?
Three situations: (1) the price reaches the target you set — always sent; (2) the price suddenly falls 5% or more; (3) the price hits its lowest point of the last 90 days. To keep things from getting spammy, types 2 and 3 are limited to about one every 3 days — your own target-price alert is never held back. Types 2 and 3 can be switched on or off per product, any time.
Read this on its own page →Where does the price information come from — and is it always right?
From a market-data service that tracks Amazon prices throughout the day. Watched products are checked regularly, so there can be a short delay between a price change on Amazon and what Deal Spotter shows — the price at Amazon checkout is always the one that counts. Deal Spotter is independent: not affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon.
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