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by echelon_musk 1y ago
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- alias_neo 1y agoI do, but I read some while ago that there was some "deal" with Amazon that prevented them from tracking real sale prices, and it also can't account for voucher codes that apply at checkout. I'm not sure if the former still stands, but on the whole, I've found CCC doesn't always have the actual best price I've recorded.
- jasode 1y agoI also use that 3 humps website regularly but they actually don't closely track fast changing prices day-by-day for all items. Therefore, I also track price changes manually myself. E.g. this ant insecticide was recently on sale for $15.99 during Oct 7 & 8 and yet that lower price was invisible to camelcamelcamel: https://camelcamelcamel.com/Miller-8150120-24-Ounce-Discontinued-Manufacturer/product/B000QDEQ7E?tp=1m https://camelcamelcamel.com/Miller-8150120-24-Ounce-Disconti... Those blind spots happen for many items and my reverse-engineering guess is that they simply don't have the compute infrastructure to track/scrape all the millions of ASINs. Therefore, many price changes are completely missed. I'm sure they're doing the best they can but it seems like the only 100% accurate way to track price change history is for Amazon.com itself to offer it. Amazon likes to say they're "customer-oriented" and providing an official price history dashboard would help shoppers.
- bashevis 1y agoI also ran into the same issue where CamelCamelCamel doesn't check prices frequently enough. I started an an app that checks the price every few hours, and also works on stores other than Amazon - https://PriceLasso.com https://PriceLasso.com