Best Buy Cyber Monday Deal Alerts: How to Get Discount Alerts
By Emily Fenton
Updated October 9, 2023
Get the latest tips on everything you need to know about Best Buy Cyber Monday deals.
Including how to get discount alerts on all your favourite Best Buy markdowns, so you can beat the rush and save on this year’s top deals.
The Best Buy Cyber Monday sale: it’s that exciting time of the year when you get to replenish your home with shiny and affordable tech and appliances for your kitchen. The best Cyber Monday deals are on everything from tech to toys, appliances, mattresses, clothes, books and more.
Best Buy Cyber Monday deals let you save up to 50% – sometimes more – on small kitchen appliances and headphones, and get awesome discounts on 4K TVs, vacuums and Smart Home devices.
Last year, the retailer started its Cyber Monday sales in early and mid November – long before Best Buy's official Cyber Monday start date on November 27th. The early kick-off was likely to alleviate foreseen stock issues, due to supply chain disruptions from the pandemic.
Sure enough, stock was limited, and by the time the official Best Buy Cyber Monday rolled around, many of the year’s hottest deals were already snatched up. For some of the year’s biggest sales, if you didn’t act fast on the early drops, then you were likely to have missed out.
As stock will be limited this year too, it’s wise to not hold back until the official Cyber Monday sale, but to start your shopping when Best Buy’s early Black Friday and early Cyber Monday deals start to drop. The name of the game is to beat the rush.
But it’s tricky to predict exactly when Best Buy is going to launch its early deals; Best Buy keeps its website vague on the early drops. Nobody has a magic crystal ball and can see into the future, so that’s why it’s wise to get set up with Best Buy Cyber Monday discount alerts, like Visualping, so you can get notified when the retailer kick-starts its deals online.
It’s a Best Buy price tracker that alerts you when any product gets discounted online. You can stay on top of when the bargains begin, so you can beat the rush and save on this year’s hottest deals, fast.
This post provides an overview of some of the best Cyber Monday deals at Best Buy, and how to get set up with Best Buy Cyber Monday deal alerts to ensure you don’t miss out, and save big this year.
Want to get alerts for Best Buy Cyber Monday deals?
Last year it kicked off early – when is Cyber Monday atBest Buy?
The official Cyber Monday sale event is Monday the monday following the Thanksgiving weekend after the week of sales from the official Black Friday event.
But – plot twist – Best Buy’s self-declared Cyber Monday event actually begins Saturday, Nov. 27th.
But there will likely be early Cyber Monday deals trickling in long before, throughout early to mid November.
Get Best Buy Cyber Monday discount alerts
Visualping can be used as a price tracker to automatically track price changes on any websites you want. It sends you discount alerts whenever the costs drop.
You can stay on top of changing price tags, and take advantage of the best deals, without all the work involved in doing it yourself.
What is Visualping?
With over 2 million users, Visualping is a website change detection and monitoring tool that has been mentioned by NBC, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Politico, among other press, as a simple and easy-to-use tool for getting price drop alerts.
How does it work?
When it detects a page change – such as the original price crossed out, with the new discounted price next to it – you get an email alert. The alert includes a screenshot of the web page, with all the changes highlighted for you to see.
There’s also a link, at the bottom of the alert, so you can navigate to your monitored page and make your purchase – promptly, before the discount catches on and everyone else rushes to snag the product for themselves.
To check for changes, Visualping takes automatic screenshots of the product page at regular intervals – every 5 minutes, 30 minutes, hourly, daily, etc – and compares each image to the last to check for changes.
Is it free?
Visualping is free, with several affordable subscription options for higher frequency monitoring. If you’re looking for a product as in-demand as the PS5, for instance, you can automatically check the page every 5 minutes.
Check out Visualping’s pricing to learn more.
Does it do more than Best Buy Black Friday sale alerts?
As well as for free Best Buy deal alerts, Visualping is often used as a restock alerts tool to automatically track product availability online.
When an item is back in stock, savvy online shoppers get alerted.
For instance, it’s been used as a PS5 stock checker, and an Xbox Series X tracker.
And getting setup with Visualping is easy.
How to get Best Buy Cyber Monday alerts
To get started with a Best Buy price tracker, simply navigate to Visualping’s homepage, and copy and paste the URL of the product page you want to track.
Next, customize your monitoring settings, such as the part of the page you want monitored, how often you want the page checked, and the email address you want the alerts sent to.
To add items to a watchlist, simply repeat this process with each product page URL you want automatically monitored for changes.
And you’re done!
Step-by-step instructions on how to get Best Buy Cyber Monday alerts.
Step 1: Copy and paste the URL of the product page you want to monitor into the search field on Visualping’s homepage. You don’t need to first sign up. Click Go.
Step 2: Once the page appears in the viewport, select the part of the page you want monitored. For price tracking products, this is the part of the page surrounding the price.
Step 3: Specify the frequency you want Visualping to check the page – every 5 minutes, 30 minutes, hourly, daily, etc.
Step 4: Type the email address you want the alerts to be sent to. Click Start Monitoring, and that’s it!
Step 5: Visualping will send you an email, asking you to make a password for your account. Don’t forget to do this. The password completes your account, and allows you to login to your user-dashboard, where you can view all your Visualping monitors and email alerts in one location.
Set it and forget it – We’ll let you know when Best Buy changes their prices.
Happy Best Buy Cyber Monday deal monitoring!
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Emily Fenton
Emily is the Product Marketing Manager at Visualping. She has a degree in English Literature and a Masters in Management. When she’s not researching and writing about all things Visualping, she loves exploring new restaurants, playing guitar and petting her cats