Interested if you get more profit from demanding sign-in before you'll let people follow your Amazon links. Have you tried just using referrer links - presumably you do it this way on the basis that long term association gains enough to let one-time users abandon and skip direct to the site for purchase??
Interesting site, would definitely try it if there were a localised version for UK, anyone know of something similar for UK sites??
* The "sign-in before you'll let people follow" is just a straight forward result of A/B testing. It was like a 9-to-1 difference for single site returns. And despite the developer in me saying "gross", it was just a stat from our metrics guy that we couldn't refute.
* We're in Minnesota and Amazon's been playing games with our affiliate revenue to encourage some legislative changes... But even if the affiliate revenue was working perfect, it wouldn't be enough to keep the lights on. TrackIf is really just a platform to demonstrate our business solution (like how Home Depot does back-in-stock notifications)
* What's a UK based site you want tracked? I could wire it up for you.
* Amazon does all sorts of price games, geography/time-on-site
/Prime-status/etc.
I don't, yet, trust you. What are you doing to provide some confidence that my name & amazon wish list won't be sold...
I use a similar site for building computers.
www.pcpartpicker.com and I love these guys. I use to go straight to NewEgg but after finding pcpartpicker, I now go there first. I'm not sure how they monetize the site but they won me over by not requiring me to sign up.
I'm too lazy to create a one off email address just to see if the site is worth it or not.
Also, I couldn't tell from your site if it's possible to enter a SKU and have the site notify me of where I could purchase it and what price history there was on it which I think would be awfully cool.
As an example, I really want to purchase a festool router but these are considered the best-of-the-best and their price reflects this and so in a manual way, I've been watching their prices on a couple web sites for sales.
Love the concept and everything else about the idea!
Another idea is if you can find users who all want to buy the same thing and see if you can leverage this to get volume discounts. I recently been playing with a site called massdrop that attempts to pull this off.
Works for Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, US. Historical price information anything where someone's looked them up at least once - which basically means everything, except super-super-tail items.
It's pretty amusing to see how much the price fluctuates over time - probably tracking other stores' special deals and so on.
I mostly use it to buy games: set a price track alert when they come out, tell the site to email me when they hit £20 a year or two later.
Interested if you get more profit from demanding sign-in before you'll let people follow your Amazon links. Have you tried just using referrer links - presumably you do it this way on the basis that long term association gains enough to let one-time users abandon and skip direct to the site for purchase??
Interesting site, would definitely try it if there were a localised version for UK, anyone know of something similar for UK sites??
Presumably though Amazon do per-user pricing too?