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Amazon price-tracking website

Camelcamelcamel is a website that tracks prices of products sold on Amazon.[1][2] Founded by Daniel Green[3][4] in 2008 and developed by Cosmic Shovel Inc.[5]

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In 2015 it was voted as the most popular price tracking tool among Lifehacker readers.[6]

Due to a failure of three hard drives on the database server on January 26, 2019, the service was unavailable for several days. The service itself listed a breakdown of the costs needed to recover the service.

During the COVID-19 pandemic they agreed to Amazon's request to stop tracking prices in select regions.[7]

According to Cosmic Shovel Inc., the overall maintenance of camelcamelcamel amounts to about $11,000 per month.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Track Amazon Price Drops with Camelcamelcamel". PCWorld.
  2. [2]
    "Amazon Discount Tracker - Camelcamelcamel Tips User to Deals". Bloomberg. 6 December 2013.
  3. [3]
    "About camelcamelcamel". camelcamelcamel.com. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  4. [4]
    "r/IAmA - I'm the founder of camelcamelcamel, AMA!". reddit. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  5. [5]
    "Camelcamelcamel - Compra su Amazon a prezzi bassi". Stolas Informatica (in Italian). 2019-11-28. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
  6. [6]
    "Most Popular Price Tracking Tool: CamelCamelCamel". Lifehacker. 25 March 2015.
  7. [7]
    "Amazon EU + COVID-19". camelcamelcamel.com. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  8. [8]
    "Donation Page". camelcamelcamel.com. Retrieved 2023-04-11.


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