Consumers are price-sensitive and opportunistic about the place of purchase when buying electronic goods. However, services that advise customers on their purchase time decisions for those products are missing. Given the objective to provide a binary signal to customers to either wait or purchase immediately, classification algorithms are a direct methodological choice. Approaches like random forests allow for the derivation of a probability and class prediction but are usually not used in time series contexts. This is due to missing or time-invariant regressors and unclear prediction settings. We show how classification methods can be used to generate reliable predictions of price events and analyze if they are subject to common market dependencies. Pooling univariate random forests and enhancing them with multivariate features shows that our approach generates stable and valuable recommendations. Because dependency structures between products are transferable, multivariate forecasting increases accuracy and issues recommendations where univariate approaches fail
