Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm::Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well.
Use Keepa or CamelCamelCamel to see the price history of the item you want to buy.
YSK this data is not entirely accurate. It relies entirely on Amazon’s API, which has been problematic in the past.
Still a useful tool, nonetheless.
That API you are describing is not active anymore. Hasn’t been in a long time.
Keepa has to scrape Amazon data themselves.
in Slovakia there is an aggregator site where stores can publish the stuff they are selling and the price it automatically keeps track.
well the smartwatch I have despite being in Slovakia shut up to 250 euros a month before Black Friday, then magically was many percentages off for 150.
of course the aggregator site showed that it was 150 for the whole year other than that “random” jump before black Friday
edit: found a screenshot, side-by-side with a store that’s not listed on the aggregator:
https://imgur.com/a/wBdMJhN
Not sure if it’s just me but when looking at that in chrome on my phone the picture looks quite blurry and it’s hard to make out much. Doesn’t help that there doesn’t seem to be a way to full screen it.
Load the page on desktop mode then click on the image. imgr is owned by reddit, so it’s been fully enshitified as well.
Thanks. Worked perfectly.
If you are on android you can try the eternity app for lemmy. It works very well.
It’s exactly the same case for me.
Amazon owns camelcamelcamel
Proof?
Ah I am incorrect. I was thinking of woot. Though they did shut down during the pandemic at Amazon’s request
Yeah ever since then CCC has felt sort of unreliable to me. If they’re willing to let Amazon tell them what data they can show once, they’re willing to do it again. Maybe they’re even doing it on an ongoing basis.