Wonder how that service works. Amazon explicitly forbids keeping track of their pricing history. I knew a few guys who tried it and got a C&D warning at some time. Does ccc have a special agreement or something equivalent? Beats me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5xuniu/im_the_founder...
In general, though, Amazon is always kind of starved for engineering resources. It sucks so much to work at in so many of its teams that it has a colossal retention problem and, one would expect, the corresponding level of technical debt.
They could start with the vesting schedule for one.
Maybe have competitive salaries with FB & Google?
I understand why the author would cave to Amazon, but not why that would fail to cause competitor dedicated only to Newegg to pop up.
CamelCamelCamel makes money off users clicking Amazon affiliate URLs to go to Amazon from their site. It's easy for Amazon (or anyone else, really) to determine from these URLs the Amazon account which is tied to these links and 'enforce' the C&D by canceling/refusing to pay that account's affilate link revenue.