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Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by jollymonATX on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:20PM (#46713585)
These sites all suffer from the same defect, amazon pa-api pricing is NOT consistent in any region with the carted values an end user will be shown. This is a well known thing if you have worked with that api before and you are essentially just dropping the authors 24 hr amz cookie for them to earn off all other sales. Not to say thats bad, but the value add from a price comparison site like this is minimal to the end user as you will very likely not get that shown price.
Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by vektor888 on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:27PM (#46713639)
Unfortunately, this is what I sometimes experience, and I am not sure there's much that can be done. I am already trying to filter out outliers, but if a price looks "plausible", this filtering doesn't do much.

Sometimes I get prices for items that are unavailable or completely off (perhaps from a 3rd-party seller?).

Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB by Aurornis on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @09:37PM (#46714545)
Is this really it? The prices just seem completely wrong from the links I clicked. I can’t imagine the PA-API is really that far off for every product, unless something has changed drastically from the last time I used the API.