What do I need to use Big-Purchase Timing?

The item; Your timeline; Budget sensitivity; New vs. any; Where you'd buy.

Is Big-Purchase Timing free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Big-Purchase Timing

Q: How do I know the Big-Purchase Timing output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Gives the category's actual typical sale windows; Checks whether a model refresh affects timing/price; Weighs the saving against the person's timeline; Includes price-tracking and fake-sale detection.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-05 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-money

Decide when to buy a big-ticket item to get the best price — the sales cycles, model-refresh timing, and 'buy now vs wait' math for the specific thing you want. Use when asked when's the best time to buy [item], should I wait for a sale, is now a good time to buy, or when do [products] go on sale. Produces the typical discount calendar for that category, whether a new model/version is due (and if the current one will drop), a buy-now-vs-wait recommendation for your timeline, and price-tracking tactics — flagging that timing is a guide, not a guarantee.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“When's the best time to buy a new TV?”“Should I buy this laptop now or wait for a sale?”“Is now a good time to buy a mattress, or is a sale coming?”“When do appliances usually go on sale?”“New phone's rumored soon — should I wait or buy the current one cheap?”

What to give it

▸The item — category and, ideally, the specific model

▸Your timeline — need it now, flexible, or purely opportunistic

▸Budget sensitivity — how much a potential saving matters vs. convenience

▸New vs. any — must-have latest model, or happy with last year's

▸Where you'd buy — region/retailers (affects the sales calendar)

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Gives the category's actual typical sale windows

✓Checks whether a model refresh affects timing/price

✓Weighs the saving against the person's timeline

✓Includes price-tracking and fake-sale detection

✓Honestly caveats that timing isn't guaranteed

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**"Just wait for a sale"** with no calendar or timeframe.

**Ignoring the person's actual timeline/need.**

**Missing an imminent model refresh** that changes everything.

**Trusting "was/now" pricing** without price history.

**Advising a long wait** to save a trivial amount on something needed now.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

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