Use Price Trackers
If there’s something you want to buy someone for Christmas, start taking notes on the price now. It’s never too early.
There are plenty of price trackers online which will tell you what the prices are, and may tell you the historic prices too.
You can use this to your advantage, to see what the average selling price is, and if it drops below, you can snap it up.
One of the best websites for this is CamelCamelCamel, which monitors the price of every item on Amazon, and tells you what the highest and lowest price has been in a graph.
Amazon products are generally matched in price with it’s competitors, so it’s usually a good indicator of what the average price is.