In the UK? Here’s your link.
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.
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:
And, to reduce the number of keystrokes needed to get to our site, all users can use 3camels.com to access our homepage; stick any locale at the beginning of that domain (ie, jp.3camels.com) and you’ll be taken to that part of our site. We recently liberated this domain from an Amazon employee (go figure!)
We are also increasing our price checking frequency in every locale, so expect to see prices change a lot more often in 2012 than they did in 2011! It’s going to be another great year at the Camel Farm.
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.
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 upcoming site updates will make it up to you all.
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 post again when we find out more, and are very sorry about the inconvenience.
This morning, our database server filled up its storage and took our system down for about 10 minutes. No data was lost, but we did have to log everyone out to clear up some storage space. Everything is now back to normal and running smoothly.
Sadly, these “issue resolved” blog posts are becoming a trend. One we hope to break immediately!
This morning we had a problem with our server that processes user emails which resulted in no emails being sent. This has been resolved, and all signup and alert emails will be delivered shortly.
Sorry about that! We hope to have these kinks worked out before Black Friday!
You’ll have to clear your cookies, but otherwise things should be back to normal as far as staying logged in across our various Amazon locales goes. Please comment on this post if you have cleared your cookies and are still being logged out when changing locales.
Before I go to bed, I want to let everyone know that there is a known bug in our site’s session system which has two side effects: 1) if you login in one locale, you won’t stay logged in when navigating to another locale; 2) login sessions expire much more rapidly than usual. Nothing major, just little annoyances.
Please keep this in mind when using the site in the next 12 or so hours, and I will do my best to fix these problems when I wake up!
We launched some wishlist synchronization bugfixes for the new Amazon locales (China, Italy, Spain.) We also fixed some product URL detection bugs in our search code.
Users in the new locales should now be able to sync their wishlists. And all users will (or should, anyway) appreciate our search engine correctly detecting and parsing product URLs. Hooray for working Camels!