Next to camelcamelcamel
camelcamelcamel is a long-running Amazon price-history tracker, and for a lot of shoppers that is the whole question — they never need anything else. Ours answers a narrower one: what an item costs to land in your country, tracked over time.
What we will not tell you about camelcamelcamel
The same as on our Keepa page: we could not open their site to verify anything, so we print no start date, no marketplace count, and no claim about what their alerts can or cannot do. Their own pages answer all of that better than a competitor's summary would.
What we can describe without guessing is our own behaviour. Hold it against theirs.
Where we are the weaker product
History. A product's price history starts the day a tracker first sees it, and an older tracker has been seeing most products for longer. On a listing that has been around for years, a chart that predates us is worth more than anything we can offer, and we cannot backfill it.
Coverage and cost. We track a short list of countries, published on our product pages. Reading a price there needs no account; watching one is prepaid — one credit per product per marketplace for 30 days, a second country costs a second credit, and nothing is returned if you stop early.
The number we add up
We record every price in three parts: the base price, the shipping, and the import fees Amazon shows for the destination. Then we add them up. That total is what we store, what we chart and what we alert on.
Inside a single country that arithmetic changes nothing for you. Importing, it is most of the bill the listing does not show: two marketplaces with the same base price can end up far apart by the time the parcel reaches you. Whether any other tracker records that total is a question worth putting to it directly.
Where our alerts go
Email, Slack, Telegram or WhatsApp, and one alert can reach several recipients at once. It can fire on a target amount, a percentage move, a change in shipping or import fees on their own, or a product selling out and coming back, with conditions combined using AND and OR.
Every delivery is logged with the provider, the status code and the latency, so a message that did not arrive can be traced to where it stopped. A cooldown keeps one restless listing from filling your inbox.
Which one you want
For someone shopping inside one country on a domestic listing, a tracker with a longer record is the better tool, and there is no argument to make against it.
For someone buying from abroad, the two graphs are not measuring the same thing. One is the price on the marketplace. Ours is what the thing costs to reach you. Those are different questions, and it is reasonable to keep both tabs open.