Is there CCC for Aliexpress.com?
I built https://github.com/wiringbits/cazadescuentos, and Aliexpress is in my backlog, if you like, send me an email and I'll let you know when it gets integrated.
Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
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#122Tip: On Amazon, if you put an item in your basket then "save it for later" you will get notifications every time the price of that item or its availability changes.
I remember you don't get a notification unless you visit your basket, where the notification is displayed.
That's right, when you visit your basket, even if it is empty, you'd get a banner that the price of some items have changed then you can see the list of all of your "saved for later" items for which price/availability has changed.
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#123Thank 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…
I think Amazon is adding the language parameter. We do not force a language on outgoing links. Worth stripping on our end, though.
Thanks for the feedback.
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#124I switched to https://keepa.com/ . The alerts seem more consistent, and there's no affiliate links.
Out of curiosity, why do you care if CCC uses affiliate links? Not trying to troll, just genuinely curious. I figure if CCC gets a bit of a kickback on something that's fair for me using their site as a means of keeping it going.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey L1quid, great site! I have been using CCC since 2 months and it is amazing. Could you shed some light on how often do you check for price updates? I am asking because I was using it during Prime Day and it seemed like the prices were not immediately updated. Maybe this could be a new addition to the site!
Have a listen to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/05/24/camelcamelca... or browse the transcript at https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019... (27 page PDF) Relevant bits - they continuously poll for new prices but they have a lot of products to request. They batch as best they can but there are request rate limits they have to respect also: > [00:11:04] JM: Let’s talk about the core the…
I suggest scraping primeDay page frequently and prioritise price update for products that appear on it.
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#126Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
#127I switched to https://keepa.com/ . The alerts seem more consistent, and there's no affiliate links.
Out of curiosity, why do you care if CCC uses affiliate links? Not trying to troll, just genuinely curious. I figure if CCC gets a bit of a kickback on something that's fair for me using their site as a means of keeping it going.
Possibly out of privacy concerns?
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#128CCC is great. I use it rarely, only because I intentionally use Amazon itself as rarely as possible. As a result, 100% of my Amazon shopping is done through CCC, which is great.
Were it not for CCC, I'd imagine I'd use Amazon even less than I do right now. Possibly not at all.
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#129Fun fact: camelcamelcamel.com is specifically excluded from archive.org's Wayback Machine, not through any normal automated mechanism, but by fiat because the higher-ups at archive.org hold large amounts of Amazon stock.
Fun fact: the amznamznamzn user account was created 11 hrs ago
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#130I'm surprised Honey hasn't come up in here. They seem to be trying pretty aggressively to be the defacto tool for this sort of thing. I also find it really funny that their premium offering is called "Honey Gold." Do an image search for that ;).