December 2011
6 posts
How Our Price Checking System Works
Given that we regularly answer questions like, “How often does product X have its prices checked?”, we think it’s a good idea to regularly post statistics about our price checking system. This is the first post in that series.
Price Checking Frequency
This depends on a number of things, the first of which is the retailer. Newegg and Best Buy are checked every few hours, and...
Amazon's Holiday Shipping Deadlines
Just a quick reminder that you’re running out of days to place orders at Amazon if you want them to arrive by the 25th of December.
Read all about the US shipping deadlines here. In the UK? Here’s your link.
Good News for Our Amazon Users!
Our users in Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom are now able to access camelcamelcamel using localized domains which forward to the part of our site appropriate for your locale.
Here are the URLs:
Canada - camelcamelcamel.ca
Germany - camelcamelcamel.de
Italy - camelcamelcamel.it
Spain - camelcamelcamel.es
United Kingdom - camelcamelcamel.co.uk
And, to reduce the number...
Amazon's Lightning Deals
Because we get our product data from Amazon’s API, and it does not provide prices for Lightning Deals, we are unable to show these prices on our site. In such cases, we receive and display the normal Amazon price.
Sorry for the inconvenience but this one is out of our hands.
We're Back Online!
One of the main servers in our network decided to die tonight, so we were down for about an hour while we re-installed it. No data was lost, and we were still collecting data during that time, but no web requests were served.
Also, as of a few days ago, we are again able to collect Newegg data. It must have been a temporary bug in Newegg’s system.
Sorry for the inconvenience! I hope our...
Newegg Data is Unavailable
We aren’t sure why but, within the last couple of days, our source of Newegg data suddenly disappeared. As we have been kicked out of their affiliate program, we don’t really have a good way to find out what’s going on. However, we have heard from one brave Camel user that Newegg’s site was down yesterday, so they might just be having temporary problems…
We will...