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The disk prices site does the exact same thing but the product is digital storage hardware. They made $50k from referrals to Amazon in 2024.
The disk prices site frustrates me because it illustrates so directly to costs imposed on the US from the current tariffs. I was able to get a 14tb disk from there DEC 2024 for $90 and now the cheapest is $220.
Great idea, simple and effective. Tiny bit of feedback: seems like some listings use "unit count" for the number of balls, look at the most expensive listing for an example. Annoyingly the second most expensive balls have the number of dozens in the unit count instead.
Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to combat these inconsistencies. Right now, I have some manual overrides, but not sure it's sustainable to keep manually overriding inconsistent listings. Any thoughts? Should I default to what's in the product title instead of the unit count? Not sure the best way to combat this.
See also: toilet paper sheet count comparisons.
See also https://diskprices.com/ for inspiration. The disk prices site does the exact same thing but the product is digital storage hardware. They made $50k from referrals to Amazon in 2024. The disk prices site frustrates me because it illustrates so directly to costs imposed on the US from the current tariffs. I was able to get a 14tb disk from there DEC 2024 for $90 and now the cheapest is $220.
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Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to combat these inconsistencies. Right now, I have some manual overrides, but not sure it's sustainable to keep manually overriding inconsistent listings. Any thoughts? Should I default to what's in the product title instead of the unit count? Not sure the best way to combat this.
I’m not the person you replied to but I took a look at the data and this is an interesting one. You found a really cool data set and this will be fun. Consider the top four most expensive golf balls on your current list: TaylorMade 2021 TP5x (3+1 Box) 4DZ Golf Ball Pack, White — uses 4DZ in title, 48.0 in unit count in product specs. Bridgestone Golf Tour B RXS Quadfecta - nothing in the title, unit count in product…
I'm thinking I could just start with any listing where unit count = 1 and take a pass at those first. I haven't looked yet, but I'm guessing single unit counts are almost always inconsistent with the actual number of golf balls.
Somethings broken - the most expensive ball, "TaylorMade 2021 TP5x (3+1 Box) 4DZ" is listed as $169.95 for 1 ball. Clicking through, this is actually for 4 dozen balls, making the actual per ball $3.54
Posting my other comment from above: Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to combat these inconsistencies. Right now, I have some manual overrides, but not sure it's sustainable to keep manually overriding inconsistent listings. Any thoughts? Should I default to what's in the product title instead of the unit count? Not sure the best way to combat this.
See also https://diskprices.com/ for inspiration. The disk prices site does the exact same thing but the product is digital storage hardware. They made $50k from referrals to Amazon in 2024. The disk prices site frustrates me because it illustrates so directly to costs imposed on the US from the current tariffs. I was able to get a 14tb disk from there DEC 2024 for $90 and now the cheapest is $220.
Great idea, i love the simple html website :) For determining the number of balls, i had an idea but not sure of how well it’d fit in. Could you feed the listing title, unit count, and description into an LLM with a basic “figure out how many balls are in this listing and make sure that number makes sense with the price” prefix prompt and then store that number with the ASIN? One LLM call per product should be pretty…
Before going full AI, maybe I could create a list of quantity keywords like "dozen", "3-pack", etc... and at least use that as a starting point.