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CCC is fantastic, but only does Amazon. BBB [:)] does prices from other sites as well (focused on books, but works for others too). Plus it offers book recommendations based on the one you are currently browsing (this was actually the main reason for us building it - discovering interesting new books. We added the price bit as it is a more frequently useful feature)
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Could you maybe shed some light why was Japan dropped from the supported country list?
Amazon's policies changed in both China and Japan. This cut us off from the product data in those countries.
Anyway, Amazon is a tough nut to crack. We were technically hostile actors, but at the time I don't think they allowed anyone to crawl them. So, props
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.
They think that most people aren't seeking, or missing, such a feature. That suspicious/especially frugal people who want to see a price history would actively seek such service, and find it anyway.
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...
Fun 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.
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...
Please consider adding other retailers. Often times, the better deal isn't on Amazon, and there tons of online retailers out there. Price checking historically on N platforms is a much more appealing value proposition.
somewhere in comments, there is mention of Amazon not minding CCC as long as it sends traffic. I’d expect more to the picture. CCC driven traffic is different than usual affiliate one, in way that it has strong revenue drag effect. And even if it’s Amazon’s preference of sale over profit, it is matter of time when they decide they have enough scale to chop-off whatever contributes to quality of their profit. I’d love…
Amazon isn’t really ever going to achieve a substantially higher scale, there’s nowhere to go and the competition is catching up.
And amazon does already have these features. They often email me when something on my wish list is on sale. No price graph, but still it seems camels is just another lead generation/engagement tool that they don’t have to do themselves.
"This page has been temporarily disabled due to abusive traffic from someone else."