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Like CamelCamelCamel? Never shop Amazon without it!

HoverHound is also a decent cross-site comparison for Amazon, Newegg, and one or two others.

How can we all see different prices if a site like this exists?
https://camelcamelcamel.com/

Some GPU prices are sometimes dropping (but not back to numbers circa mid-2017), while others remain stable at elevated rates. Some proof backing my statements:

* MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G
* MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G
* MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING 6GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition, 8GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB

By the time these prices drop back to values from mid-2017, there will be new cards on the market being sold for inflated prices (because NVIDIA, given how the market is right now, can get away with it -- nobody would know/think any different), and the older cards will stay at elevated prices because "they're legacy". (Though, unlikely CPUs and motherboard chipsets, at least newer GPUs tend to work on 2-to-3-year-old hardware).

I expect this exact same pricing phenomenon to start to happen to MHDDs because of BurstCoin and related disk-based coins. Hopefully (crossing fingers) it doesn't affect the SSD or NVMe markets (due to limited erase-write cycles of TLC vs. MLC vs. SLC; most disk-based miners on Reddit etc. seem to understand this, thank god).

So while Bitcoin is pretty much ASIC-dominated at this point, many prospective alt-coins aren't.

There couldn't be a worse time to have your CPU, MB, or GPU fail on you. Pretty much every person I know right now who builds their own PC is praying, daily, that their hardware doesn't break -- because their pocketbook can't withstand the cost of replacement.

And don't get me started on DDR4 prices.

Some GPU prices are sometimes dropping (but not back to numbers circa mid-2017), while others remain stable at elevated rates. Some proof backing my statements:

* MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G
* MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G
* MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING 6GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition, 8GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB

By the time these prices drop back to values from mid-2017, there will be new cards on the market being sold for inflated prices (because NVIDIA, given how the market is right now, can get away with it -- nobody would know/think any different), and the older cards will stay at elevated prices because "they're legacy". (Though, unlikely CPUs and motherboard chipsets, at least newer GPUs tend to work on 2-to-3-year-old hardware).

I expect this exact same pricing phenomenon to start to happen to MHDDs because of BurstCoin and related disk-based coins. Hopefully (crossing fingers) it doesn't affect the SSD or NVMe markets (due to limited erase-write cycles of TLC vs. MLC vs. SLC; most disk-based miners on Reddit etc. seem to understand this, thank god).

So while Bitcoin is pretty much ASIC-dominated at this point, many prospective alt-coins aren't.

There couldn't be a worse time to have your CPU, MB, or GPU fail on you. Pretty much every person I know right now who builds their own PC is praying, daily, that their hardware doesn't break -- because their pocketbook can't withstand the cost of replacement.

And don't get me started on DDR4 prices.

Some GPU prices are sometimes dropping (but not back to numbers circa mid-2017), while others remain stable at elevated rates. Some proof backing my statements:

* MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G
* MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G
* MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING 6GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition, 8GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB

By the time these prices drop back to values from mid-2017, there will be new cards on the market being sold for inflated prices (because NVIDIA, given how the market is right now, can get away with it -- nobody would know/think any different), and the older cards will stay at elevated prices because "they're legacy". (Though, unlikely CPUs and motherboard chipsets, at least newer GPUs tend to work on 2-to-3-year-old hardware).

I expect this exact same pricing phenomenon to start to happen to MHDDs because of BurstCoin and related disk-based coins. Hopefully (crossing fingers) it doesn't affect the SSD or NVMe markets (due to limited erase-write cycles of TLC vs. MLC vs. SLC; most disk-based miners on Reddit etc. seem to understand this, thank god).

So while Bitcoin is pretty much ASIC-dominated at this point, many prospective alt-coins aren't.

There couldn't be a worse time to have your CPU, MB, or GPU fail on you. Pretty much every person I know right now who builds their own PC is praying, daily, that their hardware doesn't break -- because their pocketbook can't withstand the cost of replacement.

And don't get me started on DDR4 prices.

Some GPU prices are sometimes dropping (but not back to numbers circa mid-2017), while others remain stable at elevated rates. Some proof backing my statements:

* MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G
* MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G
* MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING 6GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition, 8GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB

By the time these prices drop back to values from mid-2017, there will be new cards on the market being sold for inflated prices (because NVIDIA, given how the market is right now, can get away with it -- nobody would know/think any different), and the older cards will stay at elevated prices because "they're legacy". (Though, unlikely CPUs and motherboard chipsets, at least newer GPUs tend to work on 2-to-3-year-old hardware).

I expect this exact same pricing phenomenon to start to happen to MHDDs because of BurstCoin and related disk-based coins. Hopefully (crossing fingers) it doesn't affect the SSD or NVMe markets (due to limited erase-write cycles of TLC vs. MLC vs. SLC; most disk-based miners on Reddit etc. seem to understand this, thank god).

So while Bitcoin is pretty much ASIC-dominated at this point, many prospective alt-coins aren't.

There couldn't be a worse time to have your CPU, MB, or GPU fail on you. Pretty much every person I know right now who builds their own PC is praying, daily, that their hardware doesn't break -- because their pocketbook can't withstand the cost of replacement.

And don't get me started on DDR4 prices.

Some GPU prices are sometimes dropping (but not back to numbers circa mid-2017), while others remain stable at elevated rates. Some proof backing my statements:

* MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G
* MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G
* MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING 6GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition, 8GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB

By the time these prices drop back to values from mid-2017, there will be new cards on the market being sold for inflated prices (because NVIDIA, given how the market is right now, can get away with it -- nobody would know/think any different), and the older cards will stay at elevated prices because "they're legacy". (Though, unlikely CPUs and motherboard chipsets, at least newer GPUs tend to work on 2-to-3-year-old hardware).

I expect this exact same pricing phenomenon to start to happen to MHDDs because of BurstCoin and related disk-based coins. Hopefully (crossing fingers) it doesn't affect the SSD or NVMe markets (due to limited erase-write cycles of TLC vs. MLC vs. SLC; most disk-based miners on Reddit etc. seem to understand this, thank god).

So while Bitcoin is pretty much ASIC-dominated at this point, many prospective alt-coins aren't.

There couldn't be a worse time to have your CPU, MB, or GPU fail on you. Pretty much every person I know right now who builds their own PC is praying, daily, that their hardware doesn't break -- because their pocketbook can't withstand the cost of replacement.

And don't get me started on DDR4 prices.

Some GPU prices are sometimes dropping (but not back to numbers circa mid-2017), while others remain stable at elevated rates. Some proof backing my statements:

* MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G
* MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G
* MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING 6GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition, 8GB
* EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB

By the time these prices drop back to values from mid-2017, there will be new cards on the market being sold for inflated prices (because NVIDIA, given how the market is right now, can get away with it -- nobody would know/think any different), and the older cards will stay at elevated prices because "they're legacy". (Though, unlikely CPUs and motherboard chipsets, at least newer GPUs tend to work on 2-to-3-year-old hardware).

I expect this exact same pricing phenomenon to start to happen to MHDDs because of BurstCoin and related disk-based coins. Hopefully (crossing fingers) it doesn't affect the SSD or NVMe markets (due to limited erase-write cycles of TLC vs. MLC vs. SLC; most disk-based miners on Reddit etc. seem to understand this, thank god).

So while Bitcoin is pretty much ASIC-dominated at this point, many prospective alt-coins aren't.

There couldn't be a worse time to have your CPU, MB, or GPU fail on you. Pretty much every person I know right now who builds their own PC is praying, daily, that their hardware doesn't break -- because their pocketbook can't withstand the cost of replacement.

And don't get me started on DDR4 prices.

I didn't believe you, who would pay $900 for a 1070!? Turns out, you're very correct and the world is a stupid place to live.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/EVGA-GeForce-GAMING-Support-08G-P4-5173-KR/product/B01KVZBNY0

Indeed, and actually Camel can also be used to show that the complaint in this story is actually mostly a non-issue.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/re...

The complained about the price spiking right before prime day. However if you look at that product's history, you can see it also has a history of the price spiking once a month for the last 5 months. Granted all of those spikes were in the $15-$16 range, while the pre-prime-day spike was at $19. So it may have been a bit more extreme, but it's not particularly unusual. And I looked up a lot of things on prime day through camel and I didn't see any suspicious pricing claims on anything I looked up.

I think the story here is more about Jason Jacobs, founder of Remodeez, a small company that is trying to drum up sales for it's footware deoderizer by starting some BS story about Amazon to catapult themselves into national media attention

Just wish they stored a price history for other stores besides Amazon. You can see a spike to $18.94 on Prime day. Now I'm curious if the other spikes correspond to other Amazon "sales".

https://camelcamelcamel.com/remodeez-Footwear-Deodorizer-Charcoal-Moisture/product/B016ZZWL6E

Basically it sounds like Consumer Watchdog wants Amazon to incorporate camelcamelcamel's price history directly into Amazon. While that would be convenient (I have the extension on my main browser, but not on every browser like my phone), I don't see why Amazon should be singled out with this requirement when no other store has to do it.

The tools are out there. It's up to the buyer to use them. Part of the free market is that people more concerned about saving money by cross-checking prices (poor people who take the time to research and inform themselves) end up paying lower prices. Their purchases are effectively subsidized by people who don't care about price (rich people) and people who are too lazy to do price comparisons before buying; these people pay the regular price and help stores make up their margins so they can hold sales that get the well-informed poor shoppers to buy.

If Consumer Watchdog gets their way and basically forces Amazon to give a price history of every item, the result is not going to be what they hope it will be. The end of a sale would then result in a drop-off in purchases as everyone realizes they just missed a sale, and decide not to buy just because of the price increase, not because they don't like the current price. Consequently, the only way for Amazon to maintain their margins will be to hold fewer discounts and sales. Their average price on an item will be the same, but the delta between high and low will become smaller - no more sales, just the occasional market price correction. Poor people (who do their price research) will on average end up paying more than they used to, rich and lazy people who didn't care and just one-click purchased will on average end up paying less than they used to.

. If Samsung started using ECC memory in all their phones, the cost would be nearly the same with the volume they would be ordering/making.

The cost would be 12.5% more. :)

But in this case, the consumer has all the pricing information right at their fingertips. You can track almost any product's price history with CamelCamelCamel. Too much work to click a button? Use Wikibuy instead, which will pester you with a pop-up whenever you browse an item with a lower price elsewhere. In 2017, do I really need to mention PriceGrabber or NexTag? Hell, even Google links you to their own price comparison service nearly every time you search.

The prices change a lot over time. You can use camelcamelcamel to track the historic prices of items. I suspect that this is actually becoming a problem for Amazon: I held off buying something recently for two weeks waiting for Amazon to lower their price back to where it was when I first looked. They didn't, but one of their competitors did in this time so I bought it from them instead.

No, not really indeed...

You can get Samsung Evo 850 1T (pretty much the best SSD you can get atm) for less than $350 right now, and it was $325 at one point:
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Sam...

I've seen several Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales where you can get Samsung Evo 850 500Gb for around $140 (so $280 for 1Tb):
http://slickdeals.net/f/833308...

You can get SanDisk (which is WD now) 960Gb for $260 right now, and it was $200 at one point:
http://camelcamelcamel.com/San...

No, not really indeed...

You can get Samsung Evo 850 1T (pretty much the best SSD you can get atm) for less than $350 right now, and it was $325 at one point:
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Sam...

I've seen several Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales where you can get Samsung Evo 850 500Gb for around $140 (so $280 for 1Tb):
http://slickdeals.net/f/833308...

You can get SanDisk (which is WD now) 960Gb for $260 right now, and it was $200 at one point:
http://camelcamelcamel.com/San...

The 850 EVO has been gettable for around 32 cents per GB for awhile: http://camelcamelcamel.com/Sam...

Now I have to figure out how to justify a $60 game.

Why on earth would you want to pay $60 for a game!?!?!, Games coming out now are no better than games which came out 3 years ago and you don't need super hardware to play 3-year old games.

Gog, Humble Bundle, Steam, Amazon etc sales and simple price drops, plenty of top games for 5 to 10 US/EU.

GOG.com - summer sale on right now! DRM Free

The Humble Store: Great games. Fantastic prices. Support charity.

Set an alert, pay when the price is right:
Amazon price alerts. | camelcamelcamel.com

SteamAlerts.com -- Email notifications when games go on sale

Oh man, good thing we don't have anything like that going on these days.

The Samsung 640 EVO 240GB has been $138 recently at Amazon ... check the price history at camelcamelcamel: http://camelcamelcamel.com/Sam...

It wasn't obvious in 2010Q3, pre-monsoon pre-LTO-6. 1.5/3.0 TB tape (LTO-5) was $110 and 2.0TB HDD was $70. And the tape price didn't include the price of the tape drive.

here's a price history graph of the book http://camelcamelcamel.com/Making-Fly-Genetics-Animal-Design/product/0632030488

http://camelcamelcamel.com/ Great example. They also have one for newegg, bestbuy, backcountry and zzounds.