How many products should I track with alerts?

As many as you like — but reserve target prices and restock alerts for things you’d buy this month. The digest covers the long tail without costing attention.

Why didn’t I get an alert when the price moved?

Most likely the move wasn’t significant (under the drop threshold), it re-crossed inside the cooldown window, or the alert type is disabled for that product. Meaningful moves — lows, targets, restocks — always fire.

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Price drop alerts, done right

The failure mode of price alerts isn’t missing a deal — it’s the opposite. Alert on everything and within two weeks you stop reading them; then you miss the one that mattered.

This guide covers which alerts earn their interruption, and how to configure a set you’ll still be acting on months from now.

The five alerts worth getting

All-time low — the strongest single buy signal in tracking; the market has never offered better. Significant drop — a real gap below the recent typical price (Driig’s threshold: at least 5% and $3), which filters out penny jitter. Target price — your own number, crossed. Back in stock — for anything that sells out, availability is the alert. New seller — a retailer you haven’t seen before undercutting the incumbents.

What to turn off

“Any price change” notifications, hourly summaries, and alerts on products you’re merely curious about. Curiosity items belong in the weekly digest, not your inbox’s interrupt line. Reserve real-time alerts for products you would actually buy this month at the right price.

Configuration that survives contact with reality

Per-product choices beat global settings: a restock-critical size deserves back-in-stock alerts; a stable-supply kitchen machine doesn’t. Set a target on the two or three products you care most about — targets are the only alert type with your intent encoded, which makes them the easiest to act on instantly.

Expect a cooldown: Driig enforces 12 hours per alert type per listing, so a price that oscillates doesn’t ping you repeatedly. And keep a weekly digest on — quiet weeks with a “steady” note are how you trust that silence means no news, not a broken tracker.

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Frequently asked questions

How many products should I track with alerts?: As many as you like — but reserve target prices and restock alerts for things you’d buy this month. The digest covers the long tail without costing attention.
Why didn’t I get an alert when the price moved?: Most likely the move wasn’t significant (under the drop threshold), it re-crossed inside the cooldown window, or the alert type is disabled for that product. Meaningful moves — lows, targets, restocks — always fire.