Hi everyone,
Long time lurker, first time poster. We have just finished the developed a site that track the prices from Dicksmith and JB Hifi.
Examples of some price drops:
P.S: sorry first time posting deals, don't know how to format properly.
Should post a Deal not your website.
See posts by other similar websites e.g. Trolleysaver or mygroceries.com.au.
Otherwise this should be moved to forums.
Sorry I will post properly next time :)
No i'm not getting paid or anything. I just like the idea of tracking the prices of these stores. Just something my friend and I have been working in the last few weeks
It's a great idea just forum would be more appropriate.
Cool, I hope you are storing the data to pass on to the ACCC, so something can be done about the constant breaches of legislation.
errr i'm not sure about ACCC, but we do store the prices daily.
That site pisses me off. scroll to the bottom and want to click to the next page but oh no its back up the top isnt it so i have to scroll all the way back to the top to go to the next page.
It's one scroll of the mouse wheel…
or 5 or 10 all depends on how many pages you go in.
either way it's stupid.
It's fixed. Thanks for the feedback
8GB mp3 player for $50, bargain!
How many?
I got the same one from DS for $36.24 in March this year. It's actually a very good player, much cheaper than an iThing and does the job. Drag and drop your music etc
Price in Title please.
I got 8 Philips LED 9W bulbs for $8.40 ea.
Bargain!!! :D
Price drop from what exactly? The RRP?
It compare the prices of today with the last 7 days. Not the RRP, just prices published by those stores.
Again, that's great, that is the info needed to show all the false advertising, baiting etc. RRP has no refrence to anything. It is just a number they put up to deceive. What it was sold for, for a reasonable time, is what is required by retailers to be able to quote saved amounts.
If you can expand it to cover periods of 7, 14, 30 and 60 days then we can finally have a crack at getting Dick Smith to end their shoddy practices.
Really awesome idea, need to make the website more useable, but nice start.
I would love to have some feedback for further improvements.
Are you using python to crawl these website everyday? It would be a lot of efforts and bandwidth too.
Effort is not so much, we automate everything. Bandwidth, possibly, but we will see.
Good idea mate. Keep it up!
Good work - is this your school project? Should call it liveozbargain.com.au 😌
I'm too old for school :). But I just hate the idea all these stores jack up their prices before they have sales. So we TRACK them. Hopefully it will become a place where people can visit frequently like OZBargain :). We plan to track more stores (Goodguys, Harvey Norman and Officework) very soon.
No you are never too old for school! good ideas anyways!
excellent effort…thanks
The future of camelcamelcamel australia!! Well Done.
DingoDingoDingo?
Def has the potential to be great! Just wondering, when i choose "last 30 days" for example, is the current price being compared to a) what it cost 30 days ago or b) the lowest price in the last 30 days? Would prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.
It compares with the price at 30 days ago not the lowest. I'm still toying with some ideas what would be best for end users. Definitely take this in to account. BTW, the 30days doesn't really work right now because we only started the data collection few days ago :)
Love the bootstrapping you did. You might want to consider breaking stuff up into categories to make things easier to navigate but I'm sure you're already onto something like that.
When you get to something like enabling users to create their own bargain tracker list then you'll definitely see a surge user activity. I also recommend building a feature that will do email alerts for price drops for items users want notifications on.
Yes yes and yes, everything is on my list of TODO things. Thanks for the feedback!
Great! All the best and I hope this turns into something big. It's definitely been proven in the U.S. with similar products like CamelCamel as Amazon is a major business. Obviously we have the big names in place of Amazon here such as DS, JB, Big W, KMart etc etc. so keep on truckin'
When you build a user base, be sure to also look into using MailChimp or something similar that can send weekly newsletters on the latest price drops. This keeps them engaged. Maybe the end state could be some have some amazing recommendation engine which could suggest items that users could add to their list and suggest the best time to buy based on historic changes in prices.
But as an MVP for now, great start. What's your stack that you're using by the way?
I wanted to build something similar for other stores but I couldn't find the API for price data that they used so I gave up.
yeah good ideas above. I'm intersted in seeing how the prices change when the 10 and 20% discounts appear.
If you click on the product, we already have the chart.
Keep on the good work! Camelcamelcamel.com is your goal!
Really useful website, great work!!
Netgear range extender says $107.10 on dick smith site?
Probably they've just updated in the morning!? Prices should be updated very shortly.
Love the idea! Stick with it!
Your drop down menu with about and contact links doesn't work on my phone
Yup it doesn't work because we haven't put any content for those 2 pages yet. We will update that very soon, I noticed quite many people tried to click on about us and contact :). In the meantime i'm available on OZBargain for any Q&A :)
how does this differ to camelcamelcamel.com ??
Its Australian
no camels, ur right.
better grab kangarookangarookangaroo.com before it goes. :-\
Notify and Watch doesn't do anything. Also, how does one know if the price/tracker is for JB or DSE ? — sorry just saw the distributor and the product link !
For eg, search for wireless headphones. Sort by lowest first. It shows SENNHEISER Over-Ear Wireless Headphones RS110 and its price. This item is sold by both JB and DSE. Matter of fact is its a hundred and something on JB and today only for $83 at DSE. Nice site, btw. I would like it if it remembers my sorting preference after I hit the back button from the products page.
If you click on the actual product you will see the historical prices (not many days for now) we only started tracking. Sorry the notification doesnt really work now. It is the next feature together with more distributors. We will try to make it work with back buttons :). Sometimes javascript is not so nice :)
Thanks Op.. nice and simple angular website ;)
Ahhh the website we've been craving for years, thanks!
It's currently quite difficult to navigate on a mobile device due to the need for horizontal scrolling. I'm sure you're aware of this.
It's great that you've added the page navigation tools to the bottom of the screen, it'd be good if the view was re-centred to the top to eliminate the need to scroll up after selecting the new page.
The site should be more mobile friendly now :)
Great work! You've fixed both the issues I've mentioned.
However, the search results don't display the dollar and percentage drop like the home page does.
Also the product page could included a "lowest price in previous x days" line in addition to the chart.
@sween64: The search results don't display the dollar and percentage because there's no drop in prices. We can include the line for lowest price in x days. Thanks for you feedback
Ah. I was searching for "USB car charger" that's why. You could include price increases in red.
Really good work on the website
/me goes back to refreshing http://electronics.ozpricetracker.com/p/9991/canon-ef-70-200…
I just want to say that your site is awesome! Keep up the good work! Do you think its possible to allow us to create accounts to save specific items to track
We will release this feature in the coming days together with Harvey Norman tracking. Glad that you like it :)
do you get paid per click?