Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

Post by danielsamuels » Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 8:45 AM UTC

wise_young_man wrote: post #84

crazygringo wrote: post #19

I've used CCC for a long time, but especially in the pandemic I've discovered it's been most useful for simply finding out when something comes back in stock . Whether toilet paper, a webcam, or whatever random thing that's been out of stock for a month -- set a CCC alert at some fairly high price and it'll e-mail you when it's back (below that price) -- even if the price you set is higher than it's ever been before.…

This is exactly why I built NamePromo [1], which tracks product stock changes and sends you alerts across many channels (email, sms, mobile push (iOS/Android), our FB & Twitter profiles, and Discord). We also take requests for any store listing URL and even if we don't support it right now such as Nike for example we will prioritize it and get it added to our queue to support tracking it. The interesting thing about…

Post by avipars » Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 8:57 AM UTC

Fragoel2 wrote: post #88

jjeaff wrote: post #66

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It is against the amazon shopping api terms of service to offer price comparison. So they haven't probably for that reason.

I am aware of at least one competitor that also shows the price of the cheapest listing on ebay

Post by j1elo » Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 8:59 AM UTC

AnssiH wrote: post #87

L1quid wrote: post #21

Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long. Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up our day jobs at the time. A few months later, we had left our jobs anyway. Not necessarily because the site was doing so well...

Is there a reason your "Buy" links for amazon.de include "&language=de_DE" in the URL? It changes my account language to German and causes Amazon to send me a "your account language was changed" email, so it kind of makes me avoid your direct links... A lot of people, including me, are using amazon.de in English, as they have free shipping to quite a few European countries (and e.g. http://www.amazon.fi/ redirects th…

Post by avipars » Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 9:02 AM UTC

iamwil wrote: post #35

Have any of you use CCC as part of a personal workflow automation, say with Huginn or n8n, or even zapier? If so, what did you do with it?

Post by fnord123 » Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 9:14 AM UTC

j1elo wrote: post #95

AnssiH wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a reason your "Buy" links for amazon.de include "&language=de_DE" in the URL? It changes my account language to German and causes Amazon to send me a "your account language was changed" email, so it kind of makes me avoid your direct links... A lot of people, including me, are using amazon.de in English, as they have free shipping to quite a few European countries (and e.g. http://www.amazon.fi/ redirects th…

Do you find that Amazon.de has better offers than others in Europe? I usually shop on my own country TLD and didnt't think before of checking if .de or any other has better offers and free shipping