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fasouto | 4 years ago

They do money by adding their affiliate code to the links.

However the Amazon Affiliate TOS [0] say:

(y) Unless otherwise agreed by Amazon, your Site must not have price tracking and/or price alerting functionality.

I see many sites with this functionality. I don't know if they all got approved by Amazon or they are not enforcing this clause.

[0] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies...

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maltyr|4 years ago

They're a part of the affiliate program, and they are price tracking, so I would say they have implicit permission, or else they would have been long kicked off of the affiliate program.

I recall reading that the reason CamelCamelCamel is permitted is because they ONLY price track Amazon (vs tracking multiple retailers), but I can't recall where that came from.

fivre|4 years ago

Terms of Service are universally wishlists of things a legal department may wish to enforce if they are so inclined. In this case, they are not so inclined.

stjohnswarts|4 years ago

Basically the same as warnings on medications. They list almost every known symptom without any sort of probability so they're almost useless.

Havoc|4 years ago

To be fair that seems like one of the most respectable uses of affil links though. They’re providing actual value on top of what the supplier provides.

Happy for them to take a cut as a result

ziml77|4 years ago

Maybe Amazon thinks camelcamelcamel is helping more than hurting?

ct0|4 years ago

Well I do use them to "time" purchases through Amazon, not look at other retailers to make my purchase location decision.

gonesilent|4 years ago

Amazon must think so it's allowed camelcamelcamel to live on for 8+ years I've been using it.

fasouto|4 years ago

But if they think so why do they have this clause that won't allow CCC competitors?