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Use The Tracktor to track Amazon price shifts
The Tracktor is a very simple website, letting you view the Amazon price history for any product on a neat (if small) graph, and set custom email alerts for when the price (used or new) reaches or drops below a certain threshold.
The particular graph you see on the screenshot is for an MS Natural 4000 keyboard. That's a "lifetime" graph for the product -- I can't believe someone was trying to sell a used one for $125 back in 09. Maybe it was a cool, Colemak-friendly one like I posted on our Facebook page (in which case, the price is totally justified!).
The "Movers" section of the site shows products which recently had steep price drops. It seems buggy, though; it thought it spotted an 8TB NAS device from Buffalo Technology for $2, which would have been a drop of $2,519 off its previous price. Clicking through to the product, its price was listed at $2,440 -- still a discount, but not exactly the same.
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Subscribe to commentsAccountsMay 3rd 2010 8:10PM
camelcamelcamel.com blows this site out of the water. It has more history and it also has plugins for firefox and chrome. And lets not forget it also covers other vendors besides Amazon.
MessyDesktopsMay 3rd 2010 8:11PM
Your mileage may vary.... It didn't get much when I tried it, so maybe something broke.
Tried a bunch of old DVDs on my wishlist, and each one came back with
"March 04, 2010 is the earliest date availble with price information."
Which is annoying because I have been manually tracking a few of them for a few months before that...
Also tried it with some old video games that frequently fluctuate in price due to "offered by" sellers taking advantage of amazon's listing system and having their offer listed first. Same thing.
Tried the above example and it worked, so I doubt it is my web browser.
sparkMay 3rd 2010 10:31PM
http://ookong.com has been providing the similar service long time ago. Besides, it also has Firefox addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9308) and Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gjhnlaeccbboacjkdlopcndknlkjmapp).
WonderChoadMay 4th 2010 5:28AM
If "The Tracktor" only started in February who did it get the priceing back data from? In the example above it goes back a number of months before the site was started. So did the owner of "The Tracktor" take this price info from another site?
Also why no contact info for the site? Not even an about page?