Getting What You Want Part 6: Page Update Scanners

If you are in need of some hard to find carbine parts, it is time to go high tech. A browser based page update scanner may be your best tool in the quest to get the parts that you need during this time of panic buying. These tools are plugins that you can install in a browser like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Examples include AlertBox, Page Update Checker, and Update Scanner for Firefox and Page Monitor for Chrome.

A page update scanner can make it easier to finish your AR build...

A page update scanner can make it easier to finish your AR build…

They are fairly straight forward to use. You simply tell it which product page you want to monitor and it alerts you when there is a change to that page – like when an item comes in stock. This is especially handy since some parts are arriving in such small numbers that some retailers aren’t triggering their email alerts and even if they do, the part can be out of stock before you get the email.

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