Buyer Beware

Don’t buy ANYTHING on Amazon until you’ve checked THESE two websites

CamelCamelCamel and Fakespot will help protect you from bad deals and fake reviews

WITH less than 100 shopping days left until Christmas, you'll want to know what you're buying online is a great deal.

And two websites are doing their bit to make sure you're getting the best bang for your buck and not get ripped-off.

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CamelCamelCamel helped us find products that have been one sale at a cheaper price

How does CamelCamelCamel work?

The website lets shoppers enter a URL of a product to reveal its price history - and see if it has been sold at a lower price.

Handily, you can also set up price alerts so you'll know when what you're after drops in price again.

Using CamelCamelCamel, the Sun Online spent just 20 minutes on Amazon to see if popular items had been priced cheaper at a previous point.

Amazon are selling Kodak's AZ422 Astro Zoom Bridge Camera for £149 - £20 off the camera's RRP of£169.99 

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The Kodak AZ422 is currently on sale for £149 - but it was on sale £10 cheaper in August

But CamelCamelCamel reveals it was selling the camera at £139 for a week in August - £10 cheaper than it is currently on sale for.

It's a similar story with the Xbox One S computer console.

The 500 GB version bundled with popular racing franchise Forza Horizon 3 is on sale for £217.

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But a quick check of the website shows that in July, you could have picked up  the console bundle for just £189 - a difference of £33.95.

If you are looking for even more of bargain, CamelCamelCamel also lists the pricing history of items from 3rd party sellers.

You can also see how much 3rd party sellers are selling items for

These are normally slightly cheaper than if you were to buy from Amazon directly so it's worth checking out.

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Currently the Xbox bundle is available from a 3rd party for just £192.96 - a saving on the Amazon price of £29.99.

Lego is likely to be another big hit for the kids this Christmas - but some of the sets can be pretty pricey.

Its Ninjago Movie's Destiny's Bounty Toy is on sale for £109.

But on one day earlier this week, it was on sale for a much more reasonable £74.99.

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What does Fakespot do?

Fakespot cleverly looks at online reviews and makes sure the reviews are genuine, helping buyers make sure they can trust the reviews they see.

Sun Online ran the three products we found on Amazon through the site.

Fakespot will alert you to dodgy reviews

On the Lego set it found that 75 per cent of reviews are "reliable" and awarded it a "C" rating.

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Helpfully it also flags which reviews it thinks are dodgy - and why.

For example, one reviewer is dubbed unreliable as they post a lot of positive reviews and uses language similar to other fake profiles.

So ahead of Black Friday, and Christmas make sure you check both sites to avoid getting stung in the pocket.

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