EDIT: Thank you for all of the awards! I can't take full credit, my girlfriend told me about it in another sub :)
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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
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Specifically, I am referring to Capital One Shopping, SlickDeals, Honey, and CamelCamelCamel for online shopping.
I am curious about which tool r/Frugal uses the most and what deals y'all find on each platform. Is one better than the other(s) for specific categories of devices? Why do you prefer your chosen tool?
Does anyone here have any information/experience on how reliable is the price history of camelcamelcamel? I am seriously considering using that for a business of mine. But as I see from the camelcamelcamel website that such history is derived not from Amazon (but a third-party), I am really curious about the source and whether it can provide my business up-to-date results in a timely manner. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
(Edit 22/12/2019):
To clarify: Apparently the prices came directly from the API provided by Amazon (and NOT third-party as what I had misunderstood it to be earlier) and such prices are recorded over time in their database which then provides us the price histories.
Camelcamelcamel also highlights in a blog post the average frequency at which prices are updated for different regions of the world (https://camelcamelcamel.com/blog/how-our-price-checking-system-works).
https://camelcamelcamel.com/AmazonBasics-Rechargeable-Batteries-8-Pack-Pre-charged/product/B00CWNMXQW Says $9.49
vs.
https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Rechargeable-Batteries-8-Pack-Pre-charged/dp/B00CWNMXQW/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=B00CWNMXQW&qid=1563295890&s=electronics&sr=1-3 says $11.99
same ASIN. I copied the link into 3camels from amazon.
Also the Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids edition tablets were (are on sale for $139.98 but 3camels saw no such price drop (so I never received the alert I expected to come to my email) In fact 3camels says $259.98
3camels is not able to see Prime Day pricing? I would have missed this deal had I not been specifically checking it on amazon. I want to trust 3camels, and I am surprised by these 2 examples.
UPDATE: Just came back here to post this in case it helps others out. I had been watching (via 3Cs) an amazon Fire tablet (the price dropped on Prime day, but 3Cs didn't know about it, and still doesn't know that the price dropped to that new all-time low - however...honey did know about it! (joinhoney.com). I am not affiliated with them in any way, I'm just a new user of the site in the same way I am a user of camelcamelcamel.
Honey shows it on their site via the price tracking portal. (plus it can automatically track and alert you about price drops just like 3Cs but EVEN ON THE MOST IMPORTANT DAYS, LIKE PRIME DAY!
(so the technology is out there)
Competition is good, it forces software to become better.
I've used Camelcamelcamel to track items on Amazon, but I'm looking to track prices on specific kamado grills across the internet. I can probably find UPCs or store SKUs. Is there a site like Camelcamelcamel that'll track and alert for price drops everywhere possible?
Don't fall for the cheap quality electronic products either that are "slashed" down. Check rtings for non biased reviews!
Edit:
Disclaimer: "There is some evidence to support the claim that Rtings is biased. For example, in a 2020 study, researchers found that Rtings' reviews were more likely to be positive for products that had been advertised on the site. The study also found that Rtings' reviewers were more likely to recommend products that were more expensive.
However, it is important to note that these findings do not necessarily mean that Rtings is deliberately biased. It is possible that the correlations between advertising and positive reviews and between price and recommendation are simply the result of the fact that advertisers and manufacturers are more likely to submit products for review that they believe will be favorably reviewed. Additionally, Rtings has a policy of not accepting payment for reviews, so it is unlikely that any bias is the result of direct financial incentives."
Title says it all. I've had this browser extension for two years now (Jan 2019 -now) and not once, not a single time has it actually come in handy. Admittedly I mainly shop from Amazon which I think I heard later on that it doesn't work well with it (though everything points to it working just fine...) but I do shop at other sites and somehow I keep forgetting it even exists on my browser. Last year when I started buy from online more (for obvious reasons) I thought "Hey, now's a good time for this to be useful!" only for it to occasionally pop up in checkout to tell me I already have the best price available. The ONE time it actually gave me a usable discount code for a store, the discount only took the price after tax down to what the price for the item I wanted on Amazon was after tax, and I already had a Prime account so the choice of which site to buy from was a no brainer.
I want to believe that Honey is actually really awesome at saving you money with online shopping, but so far all it's done is take up space on my browser. I'm about a click away from yeeting it off of my browser, anyone wanna convince me otherwise, or maybe you're in agreement?
I'm pretty sure Honey is just another way to gather analytics about people, that's why I don't use it.
I thought you were talking about honey, as in the food, when I read the title and was pissed lol. Honey is delicious.
You're absolutely right though, the browser extension is garbage and I deleted it a month after downloading it.
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?