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CamelCamelCamel Is Not Tracking Amazon Pricing Anymore

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Camel creator here. This is, for now, only in the EU. We are still tracking prices in US/CA/AU.

The return of EU tracking is currently uncertain. After the crisis is over, we don't know if Amazon will just tell us we're done. And even if they don't, their recent mandatory API upgrade -- which appears to have made API quotas global, rather than per-region -- may have made it impossible for us to continue service in that region. More on this will be posted on our blog if it becomes important.

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Will they be tracking Amazon after this is all over? The blog post is ambiguous about if this is a temporary or permanent change.

Seems temporary:

> Amazon Europe has requested we temporarily shut down operations in order to lighten their burden while they try to get necessary products into peoples hands.

> So, as of now, and likely until the end of the COVID-19 crisis, we will not have a working website in Europe.

https://twitter.com/camelcamelcamel/status/12421791057154539...

This headline is weird. It appears this is temporary, and in the EU. But good for CamelCamelCamel, seems like the right call.

It's not even the original headline, which is "Amazon EU + COVID-19 "

I had been using CamelCamelCamel for personal use to avoid price gouging, just giving a quick go/no-go to friends and family ordering things we don’t buy enough to have learned what the normal unit costs are. Managed to avoid a handful 2-3x $ purchases over the last couple weeks. I know I’m not their target user, but I will miss it. I wonder if Keepa will follow suit.

s/Anymore/Temporarily

Inaccurate title.

"CamelCamelCamel Is Temporarily Not Tracking EU Amazon Pricing due to COVID-19" might be better.

I'm getting an error 1020 following that URL.

"This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks."

I had to disconnect from my VPN to be able to view the page.

Thank you!

That worked for me too. I had my VPN on. Turned it off and I could view the page.

> It turns out that everything was simply out of stock

I don't think that everything is out of stock in Spain or Italy

Prove it :D

It is unfortunate that they won't be tracking the goods that they do still stock.

Seems to only be Amazon EU.

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