How we count savings
The “saved by users” number on our homepage is not a marketing estimate. Here is the exact math behind it, and where the figure comes from.
- Market price when you started tracking
- $394
- Price the moment we alerted you
- − $291
- Counted toward “saved by users”
- $103
What the number means
Every time a sneaker you track drops to your target price, we send you an alert. For each of those alerts we record two prices: the market price when you first started tracking that pair, and the price at the moment the alert fired. The difference between them is the size of the drop we caught for you.
The homepage total is the sum of those differences across every price-drop alert we have ever sent. The alert count next to it is the number of those alerts.
The formula
saved per alert = market price when you started tracking − price when we alerted you
total saved = sum of every positive “saved per alert”
How we keep it honest
- One count per pair. If a single tracked sneaker triggers several alerts, we only count the best one, so a volatile price cannot inflate the total.
- Positive drops only. If the alert price is not below your starting market price, it adds zero. We never count a “drop” that is not a drop.
- Real prices, not list prices. The starting figure is the market price we observed across StockX, GOAT, and eBay, not an inflated retail sticker.
- Live, not hardcoded. The totals read straight from our database and refresh every few minutes. They only ever go up as more alerts go out.
What it does not claim
This is the total size of the price drops we alerted on. It is not a promise that every person bought at the alert price, and it is not money refunded to anyone. It measures one thing well: how much cheaper the pairs got at the moment we told you to look. What you do with that head start is up to you.
Two eras of data
SneakerPing started with a simple ping-alert system, which is now retired. Those early alerts still count toward the total so the number reflects everything we have caught, not just recent activity. Today's alerts come from the tracker, which watches StockX, GOAT, eBay, and 40+ stores around the clock.