I've been trying to find the most accurate tool lately.

CamelCamelCamel looks clean and simple, but I feel like it misses some deals or updates too slowly. Keepa seems more powerful, but it's a bit overwhelming with all the charts and options.

Update: CamelCamelCamel is good and I have used it for 2 weeks. Task Monkey extension is completely exceeded my expectations! It got me back $80 from my early orders.

EDIT: Thank you for all of the awards! I can't take full credit, my girlfriend told me about it in another sub :)

SOURCE: r/writingservice (Thanks u/heyimjulia123)

camelcamelcamel is a website that compares prices of Amazon items, when they were at lowest price/highest, notifies you of deals on items, price histories on items. It's actually been super helpful and that's why I wanted to rant about it lol

When I discovered CCC, I loaded it up with boardgames hoping to snag some sweet deals. Naturally, I set it to notify me when the lowest recorded price for a game pops up again. Since that time, both games I've ordered from CCC notifications have been scams.

Let me stress that this isn't a problem with CCC. The site is working as designed, and it works very well. I received an e-mail when the games hit the price I entered (a price that wasn't obscenely low for two separate games that are several years old) and I immediately placed my order.

However, I didn't realize that offering was from a brand new third-party seller/scammer. These sellers take forever to move on the product, then send you a fake tracking number (that constantly claims the item has "shipped" and is in "transit from seller to the carrier"). They give you an obscenely far off delivery date and, since the item has "shipped", they've taken your money and you can't just cancel your order.

Now I'm stuck waiting for the far off delivery date to come and go, then filing a claim with Amazon A-to-Z to get my money back. I've now contacted both sellers and asked for a refund in hopes of speeding this process up with Amazon (as you can file an A-to-Z claim if the seller is non-communicative) and I'm fully confident that I'll get my money back, but obviously I'd have rather avoided this scam to begin with. Had these games been purchased for an event, birthday, or other holiday, and not just growing my game shelf, I'd be in trouble.

So, be warned. Scammers are obviously targeting board games on Amazon and CCC is being made an unwitting accomplice. Before you place your order, make sure the seller is legit with a history of verified purchases. This seems like an obvious step, but if you've grown complacent with the ease and reliability with Amazon (as I had), it's an easy one to overlook.

Things go on sale, and then back to "normal" and it's not showing the sale price on camelcamelcamel. Also, I am getting different prices for the exact same item on 2 different computers.

Feel free to chime in if it's happened to you, or you know what is going on.

Here's an example: https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Mens-Mobilite-Steel-Brown/dp/B0002LDUTA

Check camel, and it's $123.27. On one browser it's $120.29, and on another it's 115.41. Very strange. What price shows for you?

hey guys! I just found out this website called camelcamelcamel.com , can someone tell me if thats a scam? Thank you!

make sure you check the price over the last year to ensure you are indeed getting a good deal.

Weve seen a lot of suspect "Deals" over the last 2 Prime Days. We can speak with our wallets.

Happy Deal Hunting!

Edit Spelling. duh

I've recently made a new Android camel camel camel utility for Android, designed to make it easy to open Amazon listings in camel camel camel.

The app is here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.bwvolleyball.ez.camel

There's a pro mode unlocked with ads, that I plan on offering for a fixed cost later after I understand the target audience. The ads are to support development costs, including ongoing app store costs.

I'm also working on adding more features to make pro mode worth it. Currently there's a pro mode history feature to easily find things you're actively price tracking again.

If there's other features you'd want to see let me know here or on the store listing!

My short bio: In 2008, I created http://camelcamelcamel.com/ -- an Amazon price tracker -- as a code experiment / demo, not intending for it to be a long term project nor really anything other than something interesting to work on. People started (and kept) using it, so I kept working on it, and now it is 9 years later. I currently have two incredibly smart and talented people working with me full-time on the project.

I received a lot of AMA requests in a thread in r/Entrepreneur, so today is the day! To pre-answer the basic stuff... here's our Quantcast profile, for traffic related questions: https://www.quantcast.com/camelcamelcamel.com ; we had our millionth user registration in December 2016; and sorry but I won't be answering questions about our revenue or other incredibly confidential info.

I will be around for most of the day, but need to launch some things today so please forgive me if my responses aren't always immediate.

My Proof: https://twitter.com/camelcamelcamel/status/838814719670525958

Edit: After a verification snafu, we are back.

By the way, we've got a fledgling sub r/camelcamelcamel/ if anyone would like to help make it goodly.

Seriously, ccc wants every bit of data possible. Creepy.

Edit: I eat my words. u/L1quid responded below and explained what's up with all the scary "requesting permission" popups. In fact, CCC seems to be taking pretty good care of privacy, from what they said.

It seems like a bunch of data isn't being updated or seen by CamelCamelCamel now (specifically for me the used category), what other sites are people using to monitor these prices?

There is a website called camelcamelcamel. It analyzes an Amazon product showing when it was the cheapest and the products price history.

Just because something is 40% off doesn't mean it's a deal. This website is very handy to weed out the fake "Black Friday Deals".

I'm new to the physical media (well, back in from the 1990/2000's). I bought a Panasonic UB-820 at Backfriday and I've been on fire with getting dvd's because of all the sales. But I've been using camelcamelcamel as suggested to try and find the best deals and what the history of the prices have been. But I'm finding they don't always how the "Best Deal for 3rd Party" or it's not listed. I assume it's because they get a little kickback with the link to Amazon. For example I know Warriors form Arrow 4K is on sale at Barnes & Noble for $29.99 vs. Amazon for $59.99. Is there another website to checkout or is doing a Google searching Shopping the best way to compare prices?