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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.
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.
The way it currently works represents a kind of price discrimination, just like providing coupons that people have to find and cut out. Price sensitive people make the effort to track down pricing information and may be prepared to wait for a better deal. Price insensitive ones don’t and aren’t.
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…
A huge amount of amazon’s retail business is as a platform for others to sell their products and the revenue/profit from that is a different game than shipped and sold by amazon. 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…
This would makes sense. ~95% of my Amazon purchases are 'sold by amazon', ~4% are 'fulfilled by amazon', as I strongly avoid 3rd party sellers. I am not sure how representative that is of larger customer base of Amazon. If its large enough, CCC traffic for Amazon is less desirable.
> And amazon does already have these features.
Not even close.
I'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.…
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 your point that Amazon and other merchants that have a "notify me" button is that they don't really work for users. However most of their methods are to process new inventory, their notification process is disconnected somehow and delayed for some reason. From the community I've been working to build as well, they all say the platform is much faster than the stores' versions.
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 just noticed today that an item on Amazon had a little notice that said something like, "This is the lowest price in the past month." Not the same as CCC, and the statement could be true even if the price didn't change all month, but I found it interesting.
Edit: to see it, you’ll likely first have to go to and enable Settings > Shortcuts > Allow untrusted shortcuts.
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...
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 there).
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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.
It is against the amazon shopping api terms of service to offer price comparison. So they haven't probably for that reason.
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...
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…
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...
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…