gHacks technology news » amazon price watcher http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:09:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Amazon Watcher http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/24/amazon-watcher/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/24/amazon-watcher/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5556 Amazon Watcher is a handy application to monitor availability and changes of items at the six Amazon stores. Users can feed Amazon Watcher with full urls to Amazon items, their ASIN or ISBN-10. The product will then be loaded into the application with a preview image if available and the user can configure Amazon Watcher to react if the item is in stock or if the price of it falls below a selected level.

A reaction can also be configured with the option to load the webpage of the product in the default browser, to send an email to the user or to automatically order x units of the item for the user.

The latter is only possible if the user adds his account information in the application’s preferences. One interesting feature is support for all six Amazon stores which can be monitored independently of each other making use of their own item databases.

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The software lacks some of the features of the previously reviewed Amazon Price Watcher like price statistics over a period of time but makes it up with the ability to automatically place an order for a unit at the Amazon website.

Amazon Watcher is available for computers running Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/24/amazon-watcher/feed/ 7 Amazon Price Watcher http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/11/amazon-price-watcher/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/11/amazon-price-watcher/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:29:35 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/11/amazon-price-watcher/ Amazon offers a huge product catalogue on their different (country) websites which has one major problem and that is clarity. Navigating through the content can be really painful, especially if you only want to check the current price of several items that you would like to buy. One way to handle this would be to store all products as bookmarks and check them manually every day to see if the price was reduced. This is however not very practicable.

The free Amazon Price Watcher aids you in this task. It allows you to search many Amazon stores – including those for the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Canada) – using the Amazon Price Watcher interface. Just search for products in selected categories and save interesting results in a library. The library offers fast access to information such as price and availability including a price chart which displays the overall price trend.

Product images and additional information will be displayed if available. This is great for an overview. The item will be displayed with a green background if your target price is higher than the actual price of the item at Amazon indicating that it would be a good time to purchase it right away.

I’m using the amazon Price Watcher for some time now and can only recommend it to everyone who makes occasional purchases at amazon.

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