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Price Monitors

Posted by peter on 6/11/2015 at 5:41 PM ET 125 Points
We sell a lot of our items to different .com companies.

Is there a service similar to google alert that you can add your item to it, and it will monitor the prices of your items on different .com’s websites. Not just if it falls below a price point like PriceGrabber does, but want to put our MSRP on it, and we get alerted if it is say the price on that website falls 10% above or below that MSRP??


any thoughts on software or websites that may do something like this.


Thanks

Peter
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  • Posted by Jay Hamilton-Roth on 6/11/2015 at 7:36 PM Member
    You could manually do this with https://www.google.com/shopping
  • Posted by peter on 6/12/2015 at 9:01 AM Author
    Jay,

    Thanks for the response, right now we do use that, but we have over 400 items, and were trying to find a way to automate the process with an alert that notify's us when a customer site is 10% above or below MSRP.
  • Posted by Jay Hamilton-Roth on 6/12/2015 at 9:39 AM Accepted
    In that case, it may be best done with a script that iterates through the 400 items, invokes the google shopping page, and examines the page's output.

    You could use Google Alerts with the ".." operator to specify a range, specifically listing $0..$msrp-10% and $msrp+10%..$100000 (for example)

    Or, perhaps one of these might work for you: https://lifehacker.com/five-best-price-tracking-tools-1692745053
  • Posted by peter on 6/12/2015 at 9:54 AM Author
    wow, Jay. i didnt realize there were those sites. as far as the Google Alerts go, and the Script, How would i write those? steps? I have never written a Script. I will start researching those sites right away to see if we can implement any of them.
    so grateful for your quick reply.
  • Posted by Jay Hamilton-Roth on 6/12/2015 at 11:53 AM Member
    For scripting, you're likely best hiring a programmer to help you implement a scripting solution.
  • Posted by peter on 6/12/2015 at 12:15 PM Author
    ok, thanks.. will see if i can try and create a google alert.. never used that before.
  • Posted by Shelley Ryan on 7/2/2015 at 6:33 PM Moderator
    Hi Everyone,

    I am closing this question since there hasn't been much recent activity.

    Thanks for participating!

    Shelley
    MarketingProfs
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