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Jason
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We've been working on a longer term project for PriceZombie that won't be available for a few more months.
Without going into boring detail: Its basically a complex systems of algorithms that will spot price trends using our historical data, and use that information to locate price drops.
Currently all systems (including PriceZombie) function by blindly polling external systems for price changes. The only way to be better than the competition when blindly polling, is to poll more frequently. Stores like Amazon have throttle limits in place that prevent asking for updates too frequently. Typically this means a window of 1-36 hours between product updates (depending on factors like sales rank, out of stock, how many people have the product in the watchlist, page views, etc). That's a lot of time for price changes to occur. Especially if you consider a particularly good price drop will result with the product going out of stock.
What this change means for you: PriceZombie will alert you to price drops much faster than any of our competitors, possibly by a massive margin. We won't know till we've completed refining the algorithms, but its already showing improvements over the exiting system. |
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