
NEC Amtrak prices are up this summer so I built a price drop monitor
I commute 3x weekly in the NEC and I'm spending around 20-30% more on my summer tickets, and I even started booking further out than normal (just started booking September tickets this month)
I've been building out a monitor for price drops on tickets I've already bought to try to recoup some of the cost. Basically, anytime a price drops, I get an email for it. I purchase the new ticket, then cancel and (full refund) on the old ticket. Usually save $5-10 per price drop. I've managed to catch around 4 price drops in the last few weeks of testing this with my commute!
I added this as a feature for other commuters on my site railcommute.io, but anyone is welcome to try it. It's currently free, and I'd love more testers so I can see how often these price drops really happen across different routes. Please give it a shot! Any future dated tickets you add on the site will start being monitored. FYI, points are not currently supported but I'm working on it. Let me know how it works for you!!