ShadowBid - Chrome Extension

A simple way to save on Amazon with automated purchases

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A simple way to save on Amazon with automated purchases

3 followers

ShadowBid is the best way to save money on Amazon! Prices change up to 80 million times every day (shocking!), and we help you take advantage of all that volatility through automated purchasing when the price drops to the level you set. Find your product, view the price history chart, and set your price. We'll take care of the rest for you!

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Launch tags:Web App•Chrome Extensions•Amazon

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ShadowBid

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Hello Product Hunt, and thanks to @foolywk for hunting us! We started ShadowBid to improve online shopping and to bring new tools to the experience that will help people save time and money. There are a handful of tools out there that we love, and we have incorporated some of their features, like historical price charts. But we envisioned bringing financial trading tools to eCommerce shopping, and we couldn’t find anyone that would let people place a blind bid which would automatically purchase when the price dropped. So, after months of testing, we are proud to announce that ShadowBid is finally live! We are launching our first platform, a Google Chrome extension, that allows anyone to place bids for products on Amazon. We have an iOS app that will follow shortly, with Android and web based products to come in the near future as well. Here are the highlights: - Shop the Amazon website as you normally would. - When you find the right product, simply engage the extension. - You will see the historical price chart along with a high and low price for the time period. - When you’re ready to place a bid, just type in the amount and choose a duration. - Bids can also be left open GTC (good-til-cancelled). - ShadowBid will track the price on Amazon, and automatically purchase when the price drops! We are now opening up the iOS app beta testing for the Product Hunt community. Please send an email to info@shadowbid.com and mention Product Hunt to get your invite! We look forward to hearing what everyone thinks, and to saving you some money! *EDIT* We are getting a lot of interest in the Slack channel so we set up a page to join instantly. If you would like to participate, please follow this link: http://shadowbid.com/slack/ Unfortunately ShadowBid only works with US based Amazon users at the moment. *EDIT* We're getting ready to launch the iOS app very soon. Looking forward to all your support when that goes live. *EDIT* The ShadowBid iOS app is now live and can be found on our site and has been hunted on Product Hunt as well! Thanks ProductHunters!

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9yr ago

FunFact

@goforwes @foolywk That sounds like gold

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9yr ago

ShadowBid

Maker

@swinnythepooh Thanks Ben!

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9yr ago

@goforwes This looks great - any thoughts on supporting non US amazon stores ?

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9yr ago

ShadowBid

Maker

@mannyorduna Thanks Manny! I just sent you a message to get details for the invite.

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9yr ago

ShadowBid

Maker

@motdiem Thanks Ziad! Yes, we definitely have plans to expand to international stores but are focused on one market to launch. If you sign up on our site you'll be the first to hear about new products and markets.

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9yr ago

This looks great! 2 questions: (1)Are you charging me a margin on top of the lowest price? If my bid is $175 and the price drops to $150, do I pay the $150 of $175 that I bid? (2) Do I lose my ability to return the product?

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9yr ago

ShadowBid

Maker

@pmckeats Hi Phil! Great questions. 1) No, whatever the price drops to is the price you will pay. If you bid $175 and it dropped to $10, you would pay $10 to the retailer. (That being said, ShadowBid is planning to implement a small service fee of $5 in the future, but it will not be charged if the fee would push you over your bid amount). 2) This goes along with #1 to a degree. The purchase is made in your Amazon account so you have full capabilities to track the shipment, make a return according to the applicable Amazon policies, and utilize your Prime benefits if you are a member. I hope this helps!

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9yr ago

This is an amazing Chrome extension. I downloaded it and I'm looking at a pair of winter boots that Amazon wants $225 for, and I'm not willing to pay that much. I might pay $125. But as it turns out, they dropped to $49 for a few days last month!! If I'd placed a bid before then, I'd have gotten the boots for like 80% off, just in time for winter. Lesson learned -- I'm going to be using this a lot in the future.

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9yr ago

ShadowBid

Maker

@paulhansen Thanks Paul! Glad to know it helped you make a good decision already.

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9yr ago

Been using it for a while in beta - saved a few hundred dollars on a keyboard (piano), cables, glasses, and few other random items. Recommend to all my friends!

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9yr ago

ShadowBid

Maker

@samuel_ishmael_philip Thanks Ish! We really appreciate all of the help from our beta testers, especially when you were able to save some money along the way.

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9yr ago

It won't let me submit my signup form. Now when I uninstall, reinstall and sign up again using amazon login, it says that user doesn't exist.

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9yr ago

OK I realized I have to fill out my phone number as well. The forms should have some indication to show required fields. It's working now.

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9yr ago

ShadowBid

Maker

@j5uh Sorry for the confusion! We should definitely add an asterisk to the fields. Thanks for the note.

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9yr ago

Sign me up for everything. Brilliant. I occasionally take on some product dev + on site marketing for overseas manufacturers selling on the Amazon platform. Pricing is a dance there -- love that you're giving consumers the keys to the castle.

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9yr ago

ShadowBid

Maker

@kkdub Thanks Kelly! Glad to hear you like what we're trying to do for consumers. I just sent you a DM to get the invites out to you.

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9yr ago

Thanks for the hard work. I'm excited to use it! I'm assuming Shadowbid only triggers a purchase when the primary price at the top of the page meets your criteria. Just making sure that if I put, say, a $100 bid on the iPhone 7 page, I'm not going to end up with used and broken iPhone 7 for $50 that an individual listed under the "Used & new (69) from $xxx" section.

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9yr ago

ShadowBid

Maker

@jakeastanley Great question Jake! You are correct. ShadowBid only triggers a purchase for New items. And beyond that, only items that are featured on the Buy Box, which is the main, featured seller for each item. Used items and sellers are just too hard for us to control for at this time so we block anything used right now. Hope that helps!

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9yr ago