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Show HN: Find the cheapest Amazon for your books

30 pointsby k33l0rabout 12 years ago

13 comments

helen842000about 12 years ago
This could be quite useful to students or those that order a bulk number of books regularly.<p>I would include the word 'country' in the title.<p>You should have a bottom line conversion into a currency that is understandable to the user so they can see the overall price difference. I know you highlight the cheapest - but it should be shown to the user so they know what the saving is.<p>Some improvements do need to be made as some prices were blank / not pulled through but when I checked directly they were significantly cheaper than the one that was highlighted.
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biotabout 12 years ago
<p><pre><code> "We can't search for anything if this is empty :-(" </code></pre> It's not empty though... it says "chad fowler". I understand this is just a placeholder, but for those who aren't developers and may not appreciate the difference, clicking search when the input field is empty should perform a search for the placeholder text.
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hh22about 12 years ago
This may be a technical problem, but it's hard to really know the best price of a book when you exclude used books from third-party sellers. For example I found a $70 book that was in the $60 range on a foreign site, but then if you clicked through on the US site you could find one for $45 that was slightly used. Without that kind of contextual information the site is less useful.
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omegantabout 12 years ago
I´ve been doing this manually for years, great job. Just include amazon.es please ;). It would be interesting to have the possibility to change the shipping option. Shipping from amazon.com with the cheapest option takes a month or more to reach Spain, so sometimes is better to pay a bit more to avoid that.
35pr17about 12 years ago
Nice! working on something similar but not limited to Amazon stores only <a href="http://www.librarist.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.librarist.com/</a>
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patdabout 12 years ago
Well done.<p>I'm building something slightly similar : <a href="http://www.shoptimate.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.shoptimate.com</a> But it's browser extension, not a website and it's not limited to books or Amazon.<p>Note that shipping from a foreign country can lead to custom taxes.
tnorthcuttabout 12 years ago
I tried it with the first several suggested books, and they all showed .com as the cheapest. You might want to consider hand-picking a few that will show up for [country] users as cheaper from [other country] store, to better demonstrate the utility of the service.
wingspanabout 12 years ago
I typically use <a href="http://bigwords.com" rel="nofollow">http://bigwords.com</a> for multi-book price comparison; it gives you the cheapest total price with shipping, and allows you to tweak parameters (new/used, internation, etc).
jayshahtxabout 12 years ago
It would be good to convert all prices to a single currency, I understand these change daily but I'm sure you could find a real time quote to track/use.<p>I like the design a lot, very clean. Hats off!
joepourabout 12 years ago
This is great! As someone who moved from London to Sydney it is just what I need, I never know whether to order from the .com store or the .co.uk store.
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tunnuzabout 12 years ago
Clever idea, nice design and great service! What are the chances that you add Amazon.it as well?
bonchibujiabout 12 years ago
It seems not to take ASIN numbers.
smartial_artsabout 12 years ago
booko.com.au is a similar Australian site, although it doesn't limit itself to only Amazon.