Price History Website

[timothy2180]

Hey TH,

I am looking for a site that has price histories of computer hardware.

I found one site that actually does this, to a degree is mypricechart(dot com) but it does not do it as well as I would like to see, and it is not up to date with current products. It has video cards up to GTX 400 series and Radeon 5000 series. Its stats are also just "high", "low", and "average".

I would like to see a graph for products, i.e. release date for product x is January 2006. It costs $500 then. January 2007 it goes down to $420, etc. etc. I would be okay with paying for this service if need be.

Thanks.

 

[szbxa]

How can that happen? different sites sell things at different prices, some vendors keeps price history for all the product they sell, but most don't.

 

[timothy2180]

How can that happen? different sites sell things at different prices, some vendors keeps price history for all the product they sell, but most don't.

By averages. And it would be impractical to include every vendor in the world, but a few major vendors would be sufficient.

i.e. newegg was selling it for $430, bestbuy for $450, and tigerdirect for $425. That results in a $435 average. It could even be based on a single site, if there is a way to see that. I rarely shop anywhere other than newegg, anyway.

 

[szbxa]

well then I guess mypricechart(dot com) is as good as it gets

 

[timothy2180]

well then I guess mypricechart(dot com) is as good as it gets

Very helpful answer.

 

[aevm]

Try CamelCamelCamel too.

Here's an example:

http://camelcamelcamel.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-PCI-Express-Graphics-ZT-40201-10P/product/B003DTLXII

 

[timothy2180]

Try CamelCamelCamel too.

Here's an example:

http://camelcamelcamel.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-PCI-Express-Graphics-ZT-40201-10P/product/B003DTLXII

That is precisely what I was looking for. Thank you very much!

 

[timothy2180]

Best answer selected by timothy2180.

 

[macrakis]

pricescan.com used to publish very nice price history graphs, but apparently got out of the general-public price comparison business and now sells its data to analysts.

 

[vcarl]

If you use Chrome, Invisiblehand is great.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lghjfnfolmcikomdjmoiemllfnlmmoko
Any time you go to an online store (anywhere, in my experience) it drops down a bar telling you if the product is available for cheaper anywhere else.

I can also vouch for camelcamelcamel as a good price chart, but I find this more useful for immediate buys.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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