Check if a Black Friday deal is real
Here's how to check a Black Friday deal with ChatGPT or Claude: the live price, the "was" price and who's selling it on Walmart and Best Buy, with any listing that costs more than new flagged.
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Add Firecrawl to your AI
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@Firecrawl Use Alexandria with a Firecrawl API key on an Alexandria-enabled team. Start with firecrawl_search using sources: ["alexandria"]. Check whether this is a real Black Friday deal: Apple AirPods Pro 3. Look up the live price on Walmart and Best Buy. For each, show the current price, the "was" or list price, the savings percent, who the seller is, and whether it's new, open box or restored. Flag any listing that costs more than a new one from the store itself, then tell me straight: buy now or wait?
Use Firecrawl Alexandria with a Firecrawl API key on an Alexandria-enabled team. Start with firecrawl_search using sources: ["alexandria"]. Check whether this is a real Black Friday deal: Apple AirPods Pro 3. Look up the live price on Walmart and Best Buy. For each, show the current price, the "was" or list price, the savings percent, who the seller is, and whether it's new, open box or restored. Flag any listing that costs more than a new one from the store itself, then tell me straight: buy now or wait?
Use Firecrawl Alexandria with a Firecrawl API key on an Alexandria-enabled team. Start with firecrawl_search using sources: ["alexandria"]. Check whether this is a real Black Friday deal: Apple AirPods Pro 3. Look up the live price on Walmart and Best Buy. For each, show the current price, the "was" or list price, the savings percent, who the seller is, and whether it's new, open box or restored. Flag any listing that costs more than a new one from the store itself, then tell me straight: buy now or wait?
Paste into Claude Code, Cursor or any agent with the Firecrawl MCP or CLI.
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What came back
Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5) sent back, word for word:
Buy now, at Walmart. Walmart sells AirPods Pro 3 itself for $199, down from a $249 "was" price, so 20% off. Best Buy has them at full price, $249.99. The discount is real against the regular price, and Walmart's free holiday returns run until Jan 31.
New AirPods Pro 3, sold by each store itself, checked just now (November 5, 2026):
Store Price "Was" / list price Savings Seller Condition Walmart $199.00 $249.00 20% Walmart.com New Best Buy $249.99 $249.99 0% Best Buy New Other AirPods Pro 3 listings from third-party sellers on Walmart. None of them shows a "was" price:
Seller Condition Price vs. new from Walmart ($199) Web Offers Restored $248.99 ⚠️ $49.99 more Gadget Replay Open box $231.99 ⚠️ $32.99 more Gadget Replay Restored $216.49 ⚠️ $17.49 more TheRightOne Pre-owned $194.99 $4.01 less Cellfeee Restored $184.99 $14.01 less Cellfeee Restored $179.99 $19.01 less SUSR Restored $178.20 $20.80 less On Best Buy:
- Bundles of AirPods Pro 3 with accessory kits are $249.99 (marked down from $259.99, about 4%), and one is $239. I only checked the seller on Best Buy's own listing, so I can't tell you who sells the bundles.
- "Refurbished Excellent AirPods Pro 3rd Gen" for $94.99 is a single left replacement earbud, not a pair. Don't mistake it for a cheap set.
Why buy now: $199 is the lowest price for a new pair at either store today, it's sold and shipped by Walmart, and it's in stock with free shipping. I can't see price history from these sources, so I can't promise it won't drop again on Black Friday itself. But with returns open until Jan 31, you can send them back and rebuy if it does. Skip the restored and open-box listings: the best one saves only $20.80 over a new pair, and three of them cost more than new.
Walmart and Best Buy data came from the Firecrawl Alexandria providers for each store: a search on each, Best Buy's pricing record for the seller and condition, and Walmart's product record for the "was" price and return window. Walmart priced everything for its store nearest the lookup (Sacramento, CA).
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