Disappointingly predictable… There were a number of items I had saved on Amazon (the site you love to hate, but use anyway), popular electronics, home goods etc. I made note of their prices from about 2 weeks back to compare with Black Friday (technically today, but unofficially running all week)… Not a single price decrease, however, prices have gone up, and by a fair amount !
I’ll give it another week or two, and I daresay the prices will drop again.
Best to track from considerably longer ago. Immediately before a supposed price reduction period prices may well peak and for more than two weeks.
I track year round and different products/brands have different price evolution periods and patterns. The items I am watching can have massive prive drops but the biggest are away from any promo period.
I watch across .fr .de and .co.uk currently, not same items much across countries but some, and each country has a different aoproach to '“price evolution” overall ss well, it seems.
Starting to watch amazon,it for some products too - the advantageous ones in each country may not be what you’d expect for that country.
You can use a Wish List to track.- I am sure you addimg the product to a wish list indirectly affects pricing as it shows demand, but it might get you a better price in a certain cycle time tbey’ve defined for that product (or not). But it makes rechecking prices easier as you just scroll your wish list and i’m sure that doesn’t create the same ding, as a new Search for it would. So more information easier without imcresing demand by Searching, going into a price algorithm.
https://fr.camelcamelcamel.com/
Is quite handy for tracking prices and alerting you when it drops below your target price.
Thanks Karen and John.
I have been aware of Hagglezon and CamelCamelCamel for a while. I have on very rare occasion bought from Amazon Germany, but typically with the additional shipping costs, there’s rarely a saving to be had.
I often find from the Camel site that most low prices tend to be around summer time.
Unfortunately for me I need to make the purchases shortly; I wish I’d purchased them prior to Black Friday.
Thanks for the Wish list trick, I will give it a whirl.
I find .de works out best overall. Shipping cost outweighed by pricing improvements and very considerably better choice. Provided you stick to items fulfiled by Amz ie sent by them. This keeps costs down overall when you get to the basket (ignore before) - and ideally choose items also sold by them where possible. Run the numbers and you’ll find the numbers work out OK even with relatively small orders.
Shipping costs from Amz Uk went bananas early this year even if no customs fees or admin needed - absolutely bananas - so I transferred my business to Germany. Relatively little of what i need is available on Amz.fr so Germany wins in many categories. I miss Amz UK only for specific foods.
Can you not get bananas where you live then? 
I have Amazon Prime (UK) as I buy a lot from them so don’t notice shipping costs, but it doesn’t surprise me to hear that it’s expensive to ship from UK to EU and vice versa.
I used to buy motorcycle gear from German suppliers like Louis Moto but rarely do any more as the £135 duty-free limit and the shipping usually makes it not worth it.