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Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by netinstructions on Sunday March 05, 2017 @08:35PM (#13800113)
FYI, camelcamelcamel gets around this emailing users link to a special page on their (camelcamelcamel.com) site that is just a redirect to the product page on Amazon. Users see a brief message "Thanks for using Camel Camel Camel" or something shortly before being redirected.
Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by shimo5037 on Monday March 06, 2017 @12:44AM (#13800910)
Unless the user takes a concrete action to confirm the redirect, that is not allowed. Under Disqualified Purchases:

> (e) any Product purchased by a customer who is referred to an Amazon Site by a link that sends users indirectly to the Amazon Site via an intermediate site, without requiring the customer to click on a link or take some other affirmative action on that intermediate site (a “Redirecting Link”),

Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by Leftium on Sunday March 05, 2017 @10:45PM (#13800536)
Oh, so that's why they do it that way!