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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.

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

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

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

Don't worry. I called him out on that too. He just got excited about discovering a new community (HN showed up on Google Analytics.)

/me inserts obligatory Dilbert marketing reference

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.

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

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....

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

Ah. Too bad. Supports Amazon.in only.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Cheap pass or cheap ass?

cheap ass :)

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