URL hacking
I've noticed when others post deals in the Deals and Discussions Thread that there is also a ?emailPrice=T in the query string, so if I suspect something may be on sale on Adorama, I search and find it normally and then modify the URL in the browser to strip everything after the URI (e.g., etyer4xr.html) and append ?emailPrice=T and then magically note that the price updates -- if indeed there is an email promotional price for that item. Interestingly, I sometimes will get a direct link from Adorama directly in my email since I am subscribed to their newsletter and have a login and have purchased from them before, but often for whatever reason, they don't market all their deals to me, so I have to use this trick to suss out deals.
EDIT: the other thing I've noticed is that when sorting by price in a search results listing in Adorama's web site, I will notice something "out of order" in the results, e.g., I will see something for $529, then $499, then suddenly, say something like Focal Elegia for $899, then it goes back to the right sortation and there's an item for $439, and so immediately I click on the "out of order" item, I see the regular, high price, then update the URL in the browser address bar to add emailPrice=T and sure enough, reveal the hidden lower price that makes the "out of order" listing I had seen make sense and actually in order after all.
I've actually discovered deals accidentally this way!
For example, here's a listing of all earphones sorted by price descending, several pages into the listing where it's showing $150 Shure SE425, then weirdly it shows the ER4SE at $299 -- which is clearly > $150!
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