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Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by derefr on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:03AM (#26139603)
You’d think someone would have come along who just scrapes Amazon’s listings, applies their own intelligent indexing heuristics, and spits out a new search/browse page that just links through to Amazon’s regular product pages. Like CamelCamelCamel, but for dimensions other than price.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by modeless on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:29AM (#26139753)
I thought about trying to build something like this, but figured that I'd probably just get sued. Also I think matching listings to accurate product metadata would be practically impossible even if you had a good source for the metadata, and it still wouldn't fix issues like inventory commingling in the warehouse or bait and switch listings that reduce product quality over time.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by fomine3 on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:39AM (#26140149)
AFAIK in the kakaku.com case, between kakaku.com and shopping sites are partner. Sites (including Amazon.co.jp) gets customers, kakaku.com gets affiliate fee. Why this model won't work in the US?
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