this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2023
526 points (97.3% liked)

Technology

59390 readers
2569 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
526
Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
55 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm::Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Use Keepa or CamelCamelCamel to see the price history of the item you want to buy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YSK this data is not entirely accurate. It relies entirely on Amazon's API, which has been problematic in the past.

Still a useful tool, nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That API you are describing is not active anymore. Hasn't been in a long time.

Keepa has to scrape Amazon data themselves.

load more comments (10 replies)