Show HN: Track changes in product price, get notifications by email

by plaban123 • 12 years ago

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aakashlpin5• 12 years ago

Currently supporting all major sellers in India. Would it be nice if it supported seller model from Flipkart?

plaban123• 12 years ago

I have found prices varying a lot between sellers in flipkart. And flipkart most of time shows its own seller(WS Retail)'s price. So such a feature will be nice.

aakashlpin5• 12 years ago

I read a Quora post by a Flipkart employee who said that the seller chosen on the home page is often the most trusted seller. I doubt if people would buy from sellers with lower ratings. Nonetheless, a feature to consider all sellers before notifying prices would be nice.

yangyang• 12 years ago

Also see Camelcamelcamel (http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/) - they do a great job of price tracking on Amazon. They have historical data for a surprising number of products too.

jkimber• 12 years ago

Camelcamelcamel isn't bad for Amazon but I prefer http://TrackIf.com too. They do Amazon and about 1,100 other sites.

hnha• 12 years ago

how nice of you to sign up and share that information...

horaci• 12 years ago

Have you tried https://pricenoia.com/ ?

v33ra• 12 years ago

Cheap pass or cheap ass?

aakashlpin5• 12 years ago

cheap ass :)

ecaron2• 12 years ago

We do this at my company, https://trackif.com. More than products (for instance we'll track rubygems, npmjs & github). I just haven't gotten off my butt to write a blog post about it since I figured "price tracking" wasn't a topic that'd interest the HN community.

ThomPete• 12 years ago

There is no topic that isn't of interest to the HN community as long as it expands our knowledge.

robzyb• 12 years ago

Buyable does a similar (identical?) thing http://buyable.me/

donniezazen• 12 years ago

Reminds me of stocks. How do you tell if the price is at lowest? If it is not at it's lowest you are losing money. If it is at lowest and you didn't buy it you lose money too.

aakashlpin5• 12 years ago

IMO, "price is at lowest" doesn't make sense at all. If I'm are interested in buying something, waiting for a while to save a few bucks would give me more pleasure than knowing what the lowest price of this product ever was.

samaybhavsar• 12 years ago

I have been using MakkhiChoose (http://www.kernelinsights.com/makkhichoose)

gregbarbosa• 12 years ago

Reminds me of Wishclouds (http://wishclouds.com/)

lovelettr• 12 years ago

Tried it on a product on Amazon I like to watch prices on [1] and got the following error:

Shoo! My super powers tell me this link doesn't belong to sellers we support.

I thought Amazon was a supported retailer?

[1] http://amzn.com/B00FJRS5BA

aakashlpin5• 12 years ago

Ah. Too bad. Supports Amazon.in only.

mitchellmckenna• 12 years ago

I built the price alerts on engadget.com, just add a product like the iPhone (http://www.engadget.com/products/apple/iphone/5s/) to your want list and you'll get an email when the price drops.

technobrat9• 12 years ago

Well.. I have been using ValueTag- It supports US and India

Demonstration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKgNsU4kxo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/valuetag/jfmdbmmnl...

Good thing is they also have android application which does much more. Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-8HNe-UOok https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.copperpix....

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