The weak US dollar
January 2nd, 2008
I put together this Greasemonkey script that looks up product price from Amazon’s US site from it’s JP, CA and European site and convert the price to local currency. It currently support Book, Music and Video and the price account for single item shipping. You can download this user script here.
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1. amazon currency compariso&hellip | January 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
[...] Kavin wrote a greasemonkey script that checks to see if you can get an item cheaper off amazon.com versus amazon.ca/de/uk/jp. and i think it uses real-time forex rates. [...]
2. This and That&hellip | January 10th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
[...] Do you want to see if a book is cheaper in the United States? Thanks to award tour for pointing to this script that automatically reports a book’s price (including standard international shipping converted to Canadian dollars) from Amazon.com. [...]
3. Paul Robinson | January 10th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Super clever – thanks for creating this!
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