I´ve been doing this manually for years, great job. Just include amazon.es please ;). It would be interesting to have the possibility to change the shipping option. Shipping from amazon.com with the cheapest option takes a month or more to reach Spain, so sometimes is better to pay a bit more to avoid that.
Show HN: Find the cheapest Amazon for your books
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#12Clever idea, nice design and great service! What are the chances that you add Amazon.it as well?
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#13This may be a technical problem, but it's hard to really know the best price of a book when you exclude used books from third-party sellers. For example I found a $70 book that was in the $60 range on a foreign site, but then if you clicked through on the US site you could find one for $45 that was slightly used. Without that kind of contextual information the site is less useful.
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#14This may be a technical problem, but it's hard to really know the best price of a book when you exclude used books from third-party sellers. For example I found a $70 book that was in the $60 range on a foreign site, but then if you clicked through on the US site you could find one for $45 that was slightly used. Without that kind of contextual information the site is less useful.
It may be less useful for your particular case but I found it an amazing tool. I want new books and I didn't know that the German site had the book I was looking for in half the price although three weeks delivery at most.
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#15Well done.
I'm building something slightly similar : http://www.shoptimate.com But it's browser extension, not a website and it's not limited to books or Amazon.
Note that shipping from a foreign country can lead to custom taxes.
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#16booko.com.au is a similar Australian site, although it doesn't limit itself to only Amazon.
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#17This is great! As someone who moved from London to Sydney it is just what I need, I never know whether to order from the .com store or the .co.uk store.
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#18This is great! As someone who moved from London to Sydney it is just what I need, I never know whether to order from the .com store or the .co.uk store.
You might find http://booko.com.au/ useful
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#20"We can't search for anything if this is empty :-(" It's not empty though... it says "chad fowler". I understand this is just a placeholder, but for those who aren't developers and may not appreciate the difference, clicking search when the input field is empty should perform a search for the placeholder text.
Huh, never considered this before. If I had a placeholder username/password on my login box, should just clicking "login" take the user to a demo/guest account, or should it bounce them and tell them to fill it in? What would be more expected there?