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I 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 ch
by jasode 1y ago
I 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