Your watchlist, your target prices

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We store your email, a salted hash of your password and what you watch. That is all this feature needs. Consent is timestamped so you can ask us what we have and when we got permission.

What an alert actually contains

Alerts are evaluated once a day, straight after our own price capture, and each one names the part, the date it was raised and the two prices it compared. Four things raise one: a price fall, your target price being reached, a part coming back into stock, or a watched part dropping to low stock. Nothing fires from a third party’s feed and nothing fires from a guess.

The part you are watching is shown beside that: its current price, how far it has moved since you added it stated in rands, the compatibility verdict for your saved machine if there is one, and the stock state we measured — in stock with a quantity, low stock with a quantity left, on order, or not confirmed. You set the trigger per part under Alert me under, plus a separate tick box for restock.

What you can do without an account

Watching requires one, because a watchlist has to be stored somewhere. Everything else on this site works signed out, and it is worth trying before deciding whether the watchlist is useful to you:

• Browse the component departments — every part page carries its specifications, its price history and how many observations that history rests on.
• Run the build engine — socket, memory type, card length and supply headroom are checked against the parts you pick, not against a marketing claim.
• Compare parts side by side — the columns that differ, with our own prices.
• Read the price movement log — every fall and rise we have observed this month, both amounts and the observation count behind each row.

No phone number is requested anywhere on this page, and the weekly digest is a box you tick — unticking it stops it.