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If you’re like me, you want to save money any way you can, but you want to do it in an easy and convenient way that doesn’t take too much time and effort. What drives me crazy is when I buy something and find it has gone on sale a week later! Did you know that at more than 35 stores, you are entitled to a “price adjustment” within a certain period of time after your purchase? This means that you can get the difference between what you paid and the price for which it is now on sale!

Todays Technology Tuesday shows you how to automatically track your purchases and find out if something you have purchased is now on sale. This free online tool is pretty cool!

The tool is called PriceProtectr.Com (yes, it’s supposed to be misspelled!) and it’s a free online tool that allows you to track your purchases automatically.

Simply enter the URL of the item on the store’s site along with your email address, and you will receive free updates on the price as they are changed on the store website.

The service currently tracks the following stores:  Altrec.com, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, American Musical Supply, Backcountry.com, Banana Republic, BestBuy.com, BestBuy.ca, Bike Nashbar, Circuit City, CompUSA, Cooking.com, Costco, Future Shop, Gap, Jenson USA, KB Toys, Kohls, Lamps Plus, Office Depot, Office Max, Old Navy, RadioShack, Sears, 6th Avenue Electronics, Staples.com, Staples.ca, Swim Outlet, Target, The Sharper Image, and Tiffany Lamps.

The service also knows how long the price protection period is for each store and will continue to send you emails during that period. After the price protection period, the emails will stop letting you know that you have passed the period when you could receive a partial refund of the purchase price.

I see this service as being great for people who purchase higher-end items. After all, if you were to spend $200 on something and find that the price dropped by 15%, that would be a savings of $30 which is not too shabby! Even if you just make a few smaller purchases, the savings can really add up.

So give it a shot! After all, it’s free!

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