Welcome!

Dan · 05-11-2008, 11:28 PM

Hi, this forum is for the posting of bug reports, feature requests, questions, comments, and anything else regarding camelcamelcamel.com.

What is the tri-camel? It is a simple tool for tracking products on Amazon.com. The master CamelBot monitors Amazon pricing and availability and emails you when products you want are available for the prices you define.

That's the semi-concise description, I guess. Even more concise: camelcamelcamel is a project I am working on in my spare time because I find it interesting.

If you also find it interesting, I encourage you to use it and post any of the aforementioned postables to this forum. I tend to keep a close eye on these forums, so your requests could be implemented (or your bugs fixed) pretty quickly if you take the time to make a thread!

Most humbly,

Dan

PS - thanks to nithya! she is/has been the primary tester/idea giver/whip cracker of this project.

Dan · 05-14-2008, 02:44 PM

By the way, you needn't register for the Camel forum. You can give feedback anonymously!

LOSER · 05-18-2008, 03:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan

Hi, this forum is for the posting of bug reports, feature requests, questions, comments, and anything else regarding camelcamelcamel.com.

What is the tri-camel? It is a simple tool for tracking products on Amazon.com. The master CamelBot monitors Amazon pricing and availability and emails you when products you want are available for the prices you define.

That's the semi-concise description, I guess. Even more concise: camelcamelcamel is a project I am working on in my spare time because I find it interesting.

If you also find it interesting, I encourage you to use it and post any of the aforementioned postables to this forum. I tend to keep a close eye on these forums, so your requests could be implemented (or your bugs fixed) pretty quickly if you take the time to make a thread!

Most humbly,

Dan

PS - thanks to nithya! she is/has been the primary tester/idea giver/whip cracker of this project.

Cool! Does this also work with Amazon.de (or any other country's amazon domain) or just with Amazon.com?

Dan · 05-18-2008, 11:21 AM

Yes it does! You can change your locale by clicking the flags at the bottom of the page, or by going into your Profile and setting your default locale.

Try this link for Amazon Germany: http://de.camelcamelcamel.com/

Nithya · 05-29-2008, 06:24 PM

I like the new price point tracking summaries. Pretty interesting to see how much people are willing to put down for a product and also helps one in gauging how much a product is actually worth.

(I'm telling you that here since I was told to do so)

Btw, could you mark the desired price on the graph next to the blue line? That would be nice, I think, since the only place our desired price gets displayed in otherwise is in the tracking info box.

PS - you're welcome!

Dan · 05-29-2008, 10:23 PM

Having the desired price on the graph is a good idea.

Smike · 05-30-2008, 01:23 PM

This is just so great. It's really really great.

I'm not referring to the new feature - that's good too, of course - I mean the site. I mean this idea, The Camel. Triple Camel. Tri-C.

Up, down, up, down, up, down. Three Humps.

The Even-Toed Ungulate Party of Three;

Tri-Dromedarius, Duke of All of Camelus and The Mountains of The Amazon;

The Magnificent Three: Amazon Explorers of Most Excellent Reputation and The Mighty Conquerors of The Vast Forest Beyond;

Eved-Toed Ungulates, Lords of Brazil;

The Llama Avengers;

HUMPS!! OH?! WHY SO MANY HUMPS!? (?);

The Camels: Great Westward Travelers of The Endless Dawn;

Mark, Johnson, and Pete: Personal Injury Attorneys On Your Side - Involved in a Llama collision? An Alpaca threatening suit? We're Dromedary Attorneys who will work for you to get things done. "With Mark, Johnson, and Pete, you never pay until WE WIN!";

Lawrence of Camelia: The Amazon Adventures (starring Omar Sharif as Sharif Abu-Even-Toe Ali);

And of course, the title of the original Beta site:
"CamelusDromedarius-CamelusDromedarius-CamelusDromedarius.com"
(which I'm just going to hazard a guess is not currently registered).

Oh yes, few sites in or out of the Amazon Jungle are as useful as this one. I LOVE IT! I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT! I AM IN LOVE WITH THESE CAMELS - IS THAT SO WRONG???

anthony8406 · 03-18-2011, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan

Yes it does! You can change your locale by clicking the flags at the bottom of the page, or by going into your Profile and setting your default locale.

Try this link for Amazon Germany: http://de.camelcamelcamel.com/

oh,Thanks so much for posting this link! , I will try it now.

04-13-2011, 04:54 AM

The level of awesomeness of this site is beyond mortal imagining. I discovered the camels only a week ago and already and they have already saved me 50 euro's in on a Slimline PS3 and the Matrix trilogy blu-ray pack.

I salute you.

greetings from the Netherlands,

Alarik

Dan · 04-13-2011, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alarik

The level of awesomeness of this site is beyond mortal imagining. I discovered the camels only a week ago and already and they have already saved me 50 euro's in on a Slimline PS3 and the Matrix trilogy blu-ray pack.

I salute you.

greetings from the Netherlands,

Alarik

Daaaang that's a lot of euros! Glad things are working out for you =)

Nanciejeanne · 12-08-2008, 05:59 AM

Hi, great site!

I like the top items on the home page very much, but wish there were more. Is there a way you can look for "top droppers" in different categories? Like click jewelry and you can see the top 10 (or 25) price drops there. Or sporting goods, toys, etc.?

Just a suggestion that would probably make me come here before amazon! Thanks in advance for considering my suggestion.

OR (just thought of this) list, say 200 items and we could sort by category or percentage, similar to the way you can sort the specials on amazon's gold box page. I don't know much about programming, so this may be difficult. I just thought it would be nice.

Dan · 12-08-2008, 12:35 PM

Howdy! Thank you

Part of the giganto update I'm working on at the moment is the product browser, which sounds just like what you're suggesting! Not only will you be able to search Amazon directly, but you'll also be able to browse our product database and filter the data all sorts of ways, including Top Drops and other lists.

Keep your eyes peeled! I'm working hard to launch these updates soon.

01-13-2009, 09:12 AM

Holy Flaming Codpieces, Batman! This tool is fantastic!

Dan, you are a god that walks amongst us. Thank you!

Dan · 01-13-2009, 12:20 PM

Well shucks, CheerfulWilf! You are too kind

I'm no god, though! You can find them over in the REAPER forum.

03-13-2009, 03:34 PM

Found your site a few days ago and have been tracking price drops for the Samsung LN52A650. Today, thanks to your price drop notification, I got one ordered for $1649, plus a few bucks shipping.

Just wanted to say "thanks", it sure was worth my time hecking out your site.

Dan · 03-13-2009, 05:49 PM

I'm really happy to hear that. The camel led you to an oasis.

03-14-2009, 01:36 PM

It's still a great site, but readers should know the $l649.00 ultra-low price was a fraud. The seller bailed on me and probably a number of other buyers as well. Wish Amazon had a better screening process for their new sellers.

05-25-2009, 05:09 AM

HI. Love the idea, but so far it isn't working for me. I get a black chart with "chart unavailable" when I do a search. I can't find any fix in the help section.

Help?

Dan · 05-25-2009, 02:33 PM

That means the product you are tracking was only recently added to our list, as the charts only show up if there are 2 or more price changes. So if you lookup a product no one else has tracked before, it's likely that you have just created the initial price point!

Keep checking back, once we collect more data (in the coming days/weeks) the graph should appear. Maybe even sooner if the price changes a lot!

Sounds like I need to make this more clear on the site.

05-26-2009, 12:23 AM

I have been using my shopping cart as my wish list because I get a message when a price changes on an item in my shopping cart, but not items in my wish list. So now I have nearly 400 items in my shopping cart (including several duplicates).

I sure wish I could import my shopping cart from Amazon into my wish list at C3. Then I wouldn't have to go look every day just to see that several items have changed by a penny.

Another feature I'd like to have is setting all my watched items to notify me when they are down 25% percent, rather than having to set a price for each one with the default to -$.01.

Dan · 05-26-2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by cmarkn

I have been using my shopping cart as my wish list because I get a message when a price changes on an item in my shopping cart, but not items in my wish list. So now I have nearly 400 items in my shopping cart (including several duplicates).

I sure wish I could import my shopping cart from Amazon into my wish list at C3. Then I wouldn't have to go look every day just to see that several items have changed by a penny.

Another feature I'd like to have is setting all my watched items to notify me when they are down 25% percent, rather than having to set a price for each one with the default to -$.01.

I believe you can move your shopping cart into your Amazon wishlist, which can the be imported at C3. Right now that import will track all products at (current price - $0.01), but I can look into defining a % prior to import!

cmarkn · 05-27-2009, 01:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan

I believe you can move your shopping cart into your Amazon wishlist, which can the be imported at C3.

I asked Customer Service about it. They say "Currently we do not have the feature to add the items directly from shopping cart to wish list."

07-21-2009, 03:44 AM

Hi there,

I am a marketing student and I've been working on a paper about how online price monitor services like your great site market themselves. I really don't know if you can give out any information but I'm curious to know how quickly you grew with respect to new users and how exactly you went about promoting your service. Can you help Dan?

Many thanks and keep up the good work

Dan · 07-21-2009, 10:29 AM

The growth of our users looks like this:

We don't really do that much promotion, other than listing it on Stumbleupon, Digg, and asking for feedback on forums where I post.

12-16-2009, 02:26 PM

OK I installed it. Now where is it?

Dan · 12-16-2009, 04:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unregistered

OK I installed it. Now where is it?

If we're talking about the Camelizer, visit a product page on Amazon and look to the left.

12-17-2009, 01:38 PM

found it - thanks!

Dan · 12-17-2009, 02:28 PM

Happy to help :]

04-10-2010, 12:56 PM

I have just joined your site - once I activated my account via my email message from you I keep being directed to the US site with all the prices in dollars.
How can I correct this - it must be something I am doing as I am not fantastic with computers!

Thank you

Alex

Dan · 04-11-2010, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alex1

I have just joined your site - once I activated my account via my email message from you I keep being directed to the US site with all the prices in dollars.
How can I correct this - it must be something I am doing as I am not fantastic with computers!

Thank you

Alex

Hi Alex,

Inside your account settings you can set a default locale, which will then redirect you on login to the appropriate site.

If that doesn't work, you may have found a bug!

Can you access http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/ ? Or does it always redirect you back to the US site?

12-23-2010, 07:36 PM

Hello, been using your site for a few weeks. A really cool feature i would like to see is the tracking of the stock available, the site could send an email when at the amazon page it says, 4 left in stock, order soon, so we could buy it before it runs out. I don´t know if this is possible to monitor or not, just a very useful feature if it existed. Thank you

Dan · 12-23-2010, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hello, been using your site for a few weeks. A really cool feature i would like to see is the tracking of the stock available, the site could send an email when at the amazon page it says, 4 left in stock, order soon, so we could buy it before it runs out. I don´t know if this is possible to monitor or not, just a very useful feature if it existed. Thank you

Our price watches track the availability by default, so tracking a product for its current price would accomplish what you're asking. Are you wanting to track availability by itself?

12-28-2010, 01:50 PM

Yup exactly, i see this site already tracks availability, it states when it´s available or not, but what i´m asking is for this site to send a warning when the item is almost out of stock at the amazon site, so yes i guess it would be independent, so you could choose an option for it to warn you when at the amazon site it said that usual low stock, order soon message.
Thanks for your attention!