A few years ago the disks all crashed, did you run your own hardware? I can't remember the details. Have you switched to cloud hosting?
Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is against the amazon shopping api terms of service to offer price comparison. So they haven't probably for that reason.
Not sure what you mean by shopping API, but here is all that their affiliate program policies[0] say about price comparisons with other sites: > if you choose to display prices for any Product on your Site in any “comparison” format (including through the use of any price-comparison tool or engine) together with prices for the same or similar products offered through any web site or other means other than an Amazon S…
I meant advertising API. Perhaps they have updated their terms for the advertising API, as it appears their affiliate program does allow price comparison now. I believe that was not the case previously.
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#133I 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 it would be an incentive that is not aligned with the user's interests. For example, CCC would do anything in their power to get you to buy something so that they get a cut. Whereas a user would maybe be most interested in getting a good value, or even not buying anything at all might be their best choice.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure what you mean by shopping API, but here is all that their affiliate program policies[0] say about price comparisons with other sites: > if you choose to display prices for any Product on your Site in any “comparison” format (including through the use of any price-comparison tool or engine) together with prices for the same or similar products offered through any web site or other means other than an Amazon S…
I meant advertising API. Perhaps they have updated their terms for the advertising API, as it appears their affiliate program does allow price comparison now. I believe that was not the case previously.
They have poor naming. There is an Advertising API, and then there's a Product Advertising API which is often called the Product API.
The Advertising API is for advertisers running ads with Amazon Advertising. Apparently they don't allow certain competitors (shopping sites, comparison sites, ad networks) to use it: https://advertising.amazon.com/en-us/resources/ad-policy/api
The Product API is for affiliates to fetch product/price information in a reliable way instead of scraping the main site for it. I don't think they've ever prohibited price comparison sites. The last time I really looked into it was several years ago, and they weren't restricted at that point either.
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#135The price history data shows that the retailer is using AI to increase prices of items in and around pay day in Europe.
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#136I'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.…
> I've become so reliant on CCC it really bugs me I can't use it (or an equivalent) on other sites -- e.g. Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Nike, J. Crew, whatever. I've actually been toying with this concept for a weekend project, essentially a quick 'n dirty node daemon process that checks prices periodically, for sites it knows how to. More often than not the data is just sitting there in JSON in the , so you wouldn't…
Honestly I'd prefer if the process didn't even have to "know" sites.
Let me just supply the URL and the price string... and let it automatically figure out the right or class or id or surrounding text it can be extracted from. And if it ever breaks (can't be found, or returns something in a different numeric format) then just notify me to visit it and see what's up.
Command-line is one way to do it (can be the canonical version), but then a browser extension makes it even easier. You'll need a headless browser even from the command-line in any case, since the product info isn't always in the HTML at all.
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#137I'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…
I ordered a Logitech C920 from logitech.com today. You have a page for this camera, but logitech.com is not one of the stores listed. At the time I ordered, both the C920 and C922 were in stock, but they're OOS now. So I guess I got lucky.
The Staples price you show is $4 more than the price I paid.
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#138Thank 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...
Please add support for amazon.nl
Re: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 it would be an incentive that is not aligned with the user's interests. For example, CCC would do anything in their power to get you to buy something so that they get a cut. Whereas a user would maybe be most interested in getting a good value, or even not buying anything at all might be their best choice.
Of course you as a consumer could also act and decide on your own.
I'd understand if the grand parent poster refused to use price alerts at all, maybe in order to avoid unnecessary purchases, but GP argued that a different service is better because it doesn't use affiliate links, which seems rather strange to me. After all you get an alert for a product you chose at a specific price you defined. The use of affiliate links doesn't change anything in this arrangement.
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#140I also found another interesting Chrome extension to compare prices between different Amazon, Walmart and Target https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shopping-helper-fi...
P.S. using camelcamelcamel and also Honey