An illustration: a price history drawn as a wire across a night sky, with jackdaws arriving to land on it as its readings. The same record is drawn as a chart further down the page.
Micro Center price history
Micro Center shows you today's number. Jackdaw shows you the other fifty—what a part used to cost, what it typically costs, and whether today is actually a good day to drive over.
Free forever No account to browse Open source
The record
An illustration of one part's price history from January to August: fourteen price readings, drawn from two hundred and fifty sightings, falling from $129.99 to $94.99; an advertised list price of $129.99 that did not change for sixty-two days; and a price alert set at $95.00 that is met by the final reading.
What you get
Not an estimate and not a scrape—a timestamped sighting by a real shopper. Filter by store, and watch the amber marks for open-box prices, the ones that never make it into any ad.
Say what you'd actually pay. The flock keeps watching, and the moment any member sees it at or under your number, your browser tells you. Open-box and back-in-stock alerts are scoped to your store, because a returned unit sits in exactly one building. Setting one takes a sign-in, which is what lets an alert follow you to every browser you use.
Open-box finds, successful price matches, empty shelves. Threaded discussion right on the product page, voted up by the people it helped. Posting takes a sign-in and a claimed handle, and a claimed handle carries a verified mark—reading never needs an account.
DanFromDenver Seconding this. Mine came with both brackets.
41 minutes ago
How it works
Open a Micro Center product page, or a page of search results. Say yes once to sharing what you browse, and Jackdaw reads the prices already on your screen. Nothing is scraped, nothing is crawled, and not one extra request is made.
A product page adds one price point. A page of results adds every card on it. Thousands of ordinary shopping trips become a record none of us had alone.
A chart, a verdict, and notes from people who were just in the aisle—right on the page, before you commit to the drive.
Built to know nothing about you
So this one doesn't. Not as a policy that could change—as a shape the code is in, which you are welcome to go and read. An account adds exactly one thing to that, and it's below.
Never leaves your browser
All that's written down
Tied to a random ID your browser made up, which you can throw away at any time. An account adds one thing and one thing only: an email address, for your sign-in code and your alerts. Never sold, never used for advertising, never mailed anything you didn't ask for.
A wire strung across the dark with a flock of jackdaws settled along it, and one empty perch beside the install button.
One perch still open
One click, then shop exactly like you always did. The remembering happens on its own.
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TenGigTinkerer Grabbed an open-box one for $73. Ask at the service desk—they don't always shelve them.
2 hours ago