Wishpicks captures a wish's price once, when you add it. After that, the price only updates automatically while the wish is being tracked — and tracking pauses for a few specific reasons.
Why a price stops updating
The wish can't be tracked. If a wish has no link, no captured price, or comes from a store that doesn't allow tracking (Amazon is one), Wishpicks never re-checks its price. These show as Unavailable.
The store needs Wishpicks Plus. Free price tracking works on partner stores only. For any other store, ongoing updates need Wishpicks Plus. Without it, the wish sits with tracking Off.
Price drop alerts are turned off. On a partner store, free tracking only runs when your account's Price drop alerts setting is on. It's off by default, so turn it on if you want updates.
You've hit the Plus tracking limit. Plus tracks up to 50 items at a time. Once you reach the limit, new wishes won't start tracking until you free up a slot.
The price is in a different currency. Even on a tracked wish, Wishpicks only writes a new price when the store's currency matches the price already saved on the wish. This stops a price from a different regional version of the page from overwriting yours with the wrong currency.
Good to know
Stock and link checks still run on tracked wishes even when the currency doesn't match — only the price itself waits for a matching currency. And the first price you saw is real: capturing a price at add-time works on any store Wishpicks can read, with no Plus needed. Plus is about ongoing automatic updates, price history, and custom alerts — not the first price.
Price-drop alerts are email only, and batched. They're never instant or in-app. On Plus you get a drop email at most about twice a day; on the free tier, at most one every few days. See "What is Wishpicks Plus, and what do you get?" in the Wishpicks Plus collection.
There are no back-in-stock alerts. Wishpicks doesn't notify you when an out-of-stock item returns.