How we check
Most "weird gadget" sites publish a link once and never look at it again. We measured one of the biggest: out of 819 products taken from a feed it labels as available on Amazon, 243 could actually be bought. The rest were sold out or the listing no longer existed.
That is the entire reason this site exists. Everything below runs every day.
What runs daily
- Every product on the site is re-requested from the Amazon catalogue API.
- We read the current price, the stock status, the seller and the item condition from the live offer, not from anything we stored earlier.
- Anything sold out, withdrawn, or offered only used comes off the site the same day.
- The remaining pages are rebuilt with the new numbers and a new timestamp.
The "last checked" stamp in the footer and on every product page is the real time we read those prices. It is not the time the page was generated.
The running total is on the stock check page, and everything that has left the site is listed on recently sold out. Both are generated from the same daily data as the product pages.
What we refuse to publish
| Situation | What we do |
|---|---|
| Item is out of stock | Removed from all listings |
| Listing is a pre-order with a future ship date | Not published, because that is not a price you can act on |
| Only used, refurbished or damaged offers exist | Not published |
| Price moved more than 2.5x in a single day | Taken off the listings, because that is usually a re-used product code rather than a real change. The product page stays up and says the price is being held back |
| The Amazon title no longer resembles the product we listed | Held back for review |
| Our last successful check is more than 48 hours old | The product comes off the listings until a check succeeds. We would rather show you nothing than a number we cannot stand behind |
What we do not claim
We have not handled these products. Nobody here has tested them, so you will not find sentences pretending otherwise. What you get is the manufacturer's own description, condensed, plus a verified price and stock status.
We also do not show star ratings or review counts. The catalogue API does not provide them, and inventing them would be dishonest.
We never claim a price is the lowest anywhere. We can only tell you what the listing said at the timestamp shown.
Prices
Prices come from the Amazon Product Advertising catalogue and are shown in US dollars for amazon.com. They change often, sometimes hourly. The price you pay is the one Amazon shows at checkout.
How this is paid for
Links to Amazon are affiliate links. If you buy something after following one, Amazon pays us a small share at no extra cost to you. That commission does not influence which products appear here or the order they appear in. Ranking is by how often the product was saved on the source feed, and nothing else.