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Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

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Post by avipars »

bmarquez wrote: post #12

I love CCC. Since yesterday and today are Amazon Prime days, I've been using to compare if the "deals" are really deals. What I've noticed is that for some of the items I'm looking for (like wireless chargers), the price of the items were slowly increased in the weeks leading up to Prime Day, so the deals are still more expensive than earlier in the summer. I think it's a typical business practice, but it's nice to s…

Cool usage.

I also was checking those deals and refreshing minute by minute. Luckily I found a good deals blog with everything https://www.aviparshan.com/israeldeals/index.html

Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

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Post by avipars »

VectorLock wrote: post #8
asxd wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the bottom of the about page [0] they have an "In association with Amazon" badge, so I'm guessing they have Amazon's consent. Edit: D'oh. Had I looked a bit longer I would have seen the legal disclaimer that confirms this at the bottom of the about page: > camelcamelcamel is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program [0] https://camelcamelcamel.com/about

It looks like they're part of the Amazon Associates Program which is probably where that banner is from (and it says it further down on the page.). I know there is some API locked behind a signup program for that, so I was curious if thats only what they use or if there is some other scraping going on.

There is an API that is limited to be used exclusively by Amazon associates. It gets the latest pricing for items based on ASIN

Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

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Post by unionpivo »

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

There is no Amazon for my country, and delivery is faster from Germany, than most other. But my German in not that good, and prefer English.

Not having local amazon blows. You can buy prime but shipping isn't free or next day (best case 3 days usual around 5), a lot of the shows wont show etc. Also random thing will decide that they wont ship from one amazon, but will ships from some other. Also returns are expensive.

Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

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Post by EliRivers »

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...

I note that on almost all my price watches (UK site), the prices that CamelCamelCamel shows me are not accurate (most frequently listed as "Not in Stock" when following the link to the product on Amazon shows that they are in stock); this all stopped working, I think, in the early days of Covid? When you were asked to stop doing it to ease load or some such?

Will it ever start working again?

Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

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Post by alfonsodev »

Kosirich wrote: post #77
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...

Thanks to your website, I got my Sage coffee machine for 250 euros less than what is sold in local stores and at least 100 euros less that the average price. Thank you for your work.

Wow! what model? 15 bar?

Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

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Post by brutus1213 »

I've been using the site for a few months now and thought it was pretty slick. Nice to meet the creators on HN :) Frankly, I've made lots of excess purchases due to your site .. for most discretionary Amazon purchases, I actually use ccc to verify I am not over paying. Good luck to you!

Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

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Post by CapriciousCptl »

zxienin wrote: post #28

I find Amazon’s acceptance of CCC interesting. If they see value in CCC, why not natively add the feature themselves? If price history is made transparent, consumers also don’t have trust issues.

I don't know the history exactly but I think it's been kind of rocky. Amazon limits CCC to physical (that is, Amazon's lowest margin) goods, ostensibly because of licensing agreements.

Amazon benefits here by sanctioning a price history tool with restrictions when others could take its place and include its higher margin goods (if you look, there are CCC competitors that aren't sanctioned in this way, but you have to look). Less measurably, the price history tracker provides better consumer experience, in line with Amazon's customer obsession. And finally, Amazon's warehouse space isn't unlimited, so informed consumers who know a particular price is extraordinary may help it free up space more quickly.

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