Comment follow-up: camelcamelcamel tracks Amazon prices

When I wrote about Amazon price tracker Tracktor, commenter Accounts pointedly remarked, "camelcamelcamel.com blows this site out of the water." Boy, he was right.

Despite its odd name, camelcamelcamel is a serious-looking Amazon price tracker, with a Firefox add-on and a Chrome add-on. The site uses a chart format similar to Tracktor's (I don't know who's imitating who here, though).

They track other vendors, too. There's camelbuy for Best Buy, camelegg for Newegg, and a couple of other sites.

The homepage offers four tabs that feature products with recent price drops. You can see Top Daily Drops in absolute numbers (USD) or by percentage. The same goes for Top Weekly Drops (absolute or percentage).

They also support local Amazon subsites: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK. They also provide something they call "Camel Concierge," which is a fancy name for a Twitter client that DMs you when items you want drop in price. That feature comes in handy if you prefer Twitter to RSS. However, you can also subscribe to a per product RSS feed that shows recent price changes in the product you're interested in.

Thanks for the tip, Accounts! If any of you know of better options, leave a comment!

Tags: amazon, business, camelcamelcamel, price, savings