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How It Works
Hi! We're a small, independent price tracker. The idea is simple: show the real price of things, every size, every day, so you can buy at the cheaper price.
Where the prices come from
Once a day (around 7am ET) our bot, TheCheaperPriceBot/1.0 (+https://thecheaperprice.com/about/; once-daily price check), reads each brand store's public product feed. That's the same list of products, sizes and prices the store's own website uses. We make a handful of requests per store, with pauses in between.
We save the listed price, the store's "was" price (if it shows one), and whether each size or option is in stock. Then we rebuild this site. Last check: Oct 18, 2026, 10:10 AM ET. First check: Oct 18, 2026.
What the labels mean
- Lowest price today: the cheapest in-stock size or option. Product pages list every option.
- Tracking since…: we need about 14 daily checks before we say whether a price is low or high for that product.
- Lower than usual / Normal / Higher than usual: today's price compared with that product's own median over the last 90 days of checks.
- Store's "was" price: the crossed-out price the store shows. It's their claim, so we show our own history next to it.
What we don't do
- We don't sell anything and we don't take payment to rank products. Rankings are sorted by price.
- We don't include coupon codes or checkout-only discounts, so your final price can be lower than ours.
- We never scrape Amazon or Walmart.
Stores we include, and stores we skip
Before adding a store we read its robots.txt and its terms of service. If the terms forbid bots, crawling, scraping or data mining, or if they're ambiguous, we leave the store out, even when its feed is public. Terms last read Oct 18, 2026.
Included (12)
| Store | Why it's OK |
|---|---|
| WinkBeds www.winkbeds.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Also read /pages/terms (same text). Standard 'Use License' (no copying of materials for commercial use); no clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
| Zinus www.zinus.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Also read /policies/terms-of-service. No clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
| Nest Bedding www.nestbedding.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Also read /policies/terms-of-service. No clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
| Lull lull.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Also read /pages/terms. The only 'bot' mentions are about sweepstakes and referral-program entries, not site access. Terms ↗ |
| Big Fig bigfigmattress.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. No clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
| Keetsa www.keetsa.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Also read /pages/terms-conditions. No clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
| Nomatic www.nomatic.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Also read /pages/terms-of-use. The only 'automatic' mention is about SMS autodialers. Terms ↗ |
| Tortuga www.tortugabackpacks.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Standard 'Use License'; no clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
| American Barbell americanbarbell.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Also read /pages/terms-and-conditions and /policies/terms-of-service. No clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
| Force USA www.forceusa.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Also read /pages/terms. Standard 'Use License'; no clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
| Get RXd getrxd.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. No clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
| Inspire Fitness inspirefitness.com | Terms read 2026-10-18. Also read /policies/terms-of-service. No clause on robots, spiders, scraping or automated access. Terms ↗ |
Skipped
| Store | Why we skip it |
|---|---|
| Brooklyn Bedding brooklynbedding.com | Terms of Use: "You will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download or scrape data from the Websites". (The short /policies page has no clause, but the full Terms of Use does.) |
| Bear bearmattress.com | Terms of Use: same "automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools ... scrape data" clause. |
| Nolah nolahsleep.com | Terms of Use: same "automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers ... scrape data" clause. |
| DreamFoam dreamfoambedding.com | Terms of Use: same "automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers ... scrape data" clause. |
| Tuft & Needle tuftandneedle.com | Terms: "Use any automated software or tools that are designed to extract and copy data (such as bots, spiders, crawlers ...)" is prohibited. |
| Turmerry turmerry.com | Terms page carries the Shopify "spider, crawl, or scrape" clause. |
| Avocado avocadogreenmattress.com | Terms: "You may not use spiders, robots, data mining techniques or other automated devices or programs to catalog, download or otherwise reproduce ... content". (The /policies page is empty; the real terms are at /pages/terms.) |
| Casper casper.com | Terms prohibit "data mining, bots, spiders, automated tools" (research 2026-10-18). |
| Puffy, PlushBeds, Naturepedic, Brooklinen, Parachute, Coop various | Anti-scraping clauses (research 2026-10-18). |
| Bedgear bedgear.com | "spider, crawl, or scrape" clause. |
| Spindle spindlemattress.com | Bans spiders, robots, crawlers and data mining tools. |
| Linenspa linenspa.com | "Use any robot, spider, or other automatic device ... to access the Website" is prohibited. |
| Eco Terra ecoterrabeds.com | "scrape, crawl, mine, harvest" clause. |
| Sweetnight sweetnight.com | Bans robots or spiders used to copy or "scrape" the site. |
| Saatva, Helix, Nectar, DreamCloud, Purple, Amerisleep various | No public Shopify feed. Can only come in later through an affiliate product feed. |
| Away awaytravel.com | Full Terms (/pages/terms) ban accessing or downloading content with "spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools or the like". (The short /policies page has no clause.) |
| CALPAK calpaktravel.com | Terms: "You may not data mine the Website" and limit bots/spiders to purposes consistent with the Terms. Ambiguous at best, so excluded. |
| Db Journey dbjourney.com | Terms ban using "spiders, robots ... to navigate or search the Site" other than standard browsers. |
| Paravel paravel.com | Full Terms ban "any robot, spider, scraping, data gathering and extraction tools, automatic devices". |
| Delsey delsey.com | Its Shopify feed is the French store (euro prices, EU sizes); there's no US feed. The terms are clean, but the data doesn't fit a US price site. |
| Monos, Béis, Briggs & Riley, Travelpro, Eagle Creek, Cotopaxi, Arlo Skye, Roam various | Anti-scraping clauses (research 2026-10-18). |
| REP Fitness repfitness.com | Full Terms prohibit using the site in any manner that "attempts to harvest, collect, gather, or assemble information or data". (The short /policies page has no clause.) |
| Titan, Bells of Steel, Fringe Sport, PRx, CAP, Homegrown Lifting, Bowflex, PowerBlock, Ironmaster, Marcy, RitFit, Sunny, XMark, Synergee, Iron Bull various | Anti-scraping clauses (research 2026-10-18). |
| Rogue roguefitness.com | No public Shopify feed. |
| Amazon, Walmart amazon.com, walmart.com | Never scraped (house rule). Amazon could come in later via the Product Advertising API / Creators API only. |
Coming next
We're building toward "any product". The next sources are licensed affiliate product feeds (which can cover brands we skip today, with their permission) and the eBay Browse API.
Say hi
Spotted a wrong price? The store's own page is always the final word, and our next daily check usually catches changes.