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Addition of an item to the camel database & frequency of updates
Hi and thanks again for the great tool. It has come to my attention that the new chrome extension is not adding the items I am visiting to the camelcamelcamel database if they were not already in there. I have to click on the icon and then visit the item's webpage in the camel site for the service to start crawling for price updates. It also takes too long to update a price to be updated, for example a book I wanted had for 2 months a 20% off RRP on amazon.com but the camel data suggest it has been offered at no discount all along.
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I will look into this. The Camelizer should definitely be adding products to the Camel database and if not, I will make that happen. Thank you for reporting this problem!
As for the frequency of updates, every product with at least one active price watch should be updated multiple times per day. All (~2 million) other products receive one or two updates per week. Are you sure the book in question didn't receive an update in two months? Please provide its URL so I can look into that.
We are always trying to improve the frequency of product updates, but are bound by Amazon's request limits. That isn't stopping us from trying though =)Comment -
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camelized!
Dan thank you for your prompt reply! The product page is http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930... and I am sure that the price was 20% off because I had put it in my cart and today when I visited the cart page I got a notification saying "the price of this item went from this to that" That's how I noticed the issue. In any case thank you so much for providing and developing such a great tool! -
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No problem, thank you for providing that URL. I will let you know when I have a better answer for you regarding that product. -
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For now, if you'd like a product updated more often, just set a desired price by creating a price watch. As I mentioned before, if at least one person is waiting for the price to drop (and has created a price watch to alert them of the drop), our system will update the product multiple times per day.
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