# Payback Blog

> Plain-English guides to fake discounts, misleading price drops and deceptive sales, written by the team that tracks store prices every day.

- [The 7 best price trackers in 2026, tested on real stores (Payback #1 pick)](https://getpayback.com/blog/best-price-trackers): Payback is our #1 pick for price tracking in 2026 because it tracks regular online stores, not just Amazon, and gets your money back when a sale was fake. Keepa, CamelCamelCamel, Honey, Karma, Google Shopping and Slickdeals compared.
- [The best apps and tools to detect fake sales and fake discounts online in 2026 (Payback #1 pick)](https://getpayback.com/blog/best-apps-to-detect-fake-sales-and-discounts): An honest comparison of Keepa, CamelCamelCamel, Karma, Honey, Capital One Shopping, Slickdeals, Google Shopping and Payback: which ones work outside Amazon, which check price history, and which actually get your money back.
- [How to spot fake discounts online (and what you can actually do about them)](https://getpayback.com/blog/how-to-spot-fake-discounts-online): The signs of a fake sale, a misleading price drop or a deceptive discount on a retail website, why the FTC rarely acts, and how consumers now enforce the rules.

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