Ive been collecting Lego for over a decade now but Im facing a new challenge trying to grab the UCS Falcon before it retires next year. My budget is strictly under 700 bucks so Im hunting for a deep discount.
So I was thinking about setting up automated price trackers. My logic was to use CamelCamelCamel or BrickWatch, but Camel keeps missing those flash sales on Amazon because of laggy scrape times, and BrickWatch seems super geared towards the EU whereas Im in Chicago. How do you guys actually track real-time US price drops without constantly refreshing pages?
Saw this thread and wanted to chime in since I went down this rabbit hole trying to get the UCS Star Destroyer a while back. Amazon is notorious for blocking scrapers, which is why Camel has that annoying lag. Here are a few US-focused options that actually work:
I tried setting up a custom AWS Lambda scraper last year to track the UCS Star Destroyer API endpoints, but honestly it was a massive disaster and not as good as expected. I wanted to map out historical price-per-gram data and match it against regional warehouse inventory shifts.
Unfortunately, Amazon trackers have been disappointing lately. Try this instead: