Ab Add-On - Repricer Pro - Monitoring Of Competitors Prices And Dynamic Pricing

Dear friends, we present rePricer Pro add-on for CS-Cart.

What the add-on does
- constantly monitors the prices of competing stores (parsing prices and availability of competitors' products)
- provides dynamic pricing from competitors' prices based on created rules and formulas

Look videos with add-ons work
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXWrBQgZw38tgzhXVP3qRLWNCSP-wEDdZ

Link to the add-ons page with more info in our store https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com/en/repricer-pro-add-on.html

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Usually these types of services are illegal, its not recommended to use stuff like this. Numerous companies have been sued by providing services like this as this sometimes does not comply with the 'fair use policy' of the domains you are comparing your price with.

Do you think semrush, and similar sites get permission from websites from which it collects data?

Thank you for your opinion.
But following your logic, then you should sue Google for constantly monitoring store page changes.

In fact, this is the business of every entrepreneur: manually monitor prices or automate this process. The main question is that it does not harm the websites of competitors (here this is already a legitimate question, but this question lies in the plane of the technical implementation of the monitoring process).

Legal web parsing or not is not a question of copyright ( you wrote "fair use policy" it is about copyright and illegal content usage)

Thank you for your opinion.
But following your logic, then you should sue Google for constantly monitoring store page changes.

In fact, this is the business of every entrepreneur: manually monitor prices or automate this process. The main question is that it does not harm the websites of competitors (here this is already a legitimate question, but this question lies in the plane of the technical implementation of the monitoring process).

Legal web parsing or not is not a question of copyright ( you wrote "fair use policy" it is about copyright and illegal content usage)

Yeah, but I allow google to scrape by means of robots.txt, most of these companies blatantly ignore it. Which gets swiftly followed by a lawsuit if they continue scraping.

Do you think semrush, and similar sites get permission from websites from which it collects data?

No they don't, but you can forbid them to do so by blacklisting them in your robots.txt

then, they can block us.

Of course is legal to watch public prices and adjust your prices. Do you still afraid of something? Just use a proxy… problem solved. He already mentioned that in the video.
Nice addon and must have for stores selling in marketplaces that lowest price matters. I am sure 99% of stores out there they will not even notice they are getting tracked

I've been waiting for a long time, I hope the final release will be released this month.

Of course is legal to watch public prices and adjust your prices. Do you still afraid of something? Just use a proxy.. problem solved. He already mentioned that in the video. Nice addon and must have for stores selling in marketplaces that lowest price matters. I am sure 99% of stores out there they will not even notice they are getting tracked

No its not legal by definition. If you get caught red handed, sending multiple req/s and ignoring TOS / Robots.txt / etc, you will be in deep trouble.

Some examples:

http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case456.cfm

http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case511.cfm/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browse_wrap

the cops can take me.

It is just price observer, you don’t copy anything and you don’t affect anything in their business like in the examples you mention. Have you seen the addon? You specify a link and in that link you get the price that is served on your browser. You don’t crawl or copy the whole websites. It has nothing to do with robots texts and all others that you mention. It is the same as if you had a staff to check their prices every morning and give report to you about their prices, without photos without copying anything.

No its not legal by definition. If you get caught red handed, sending multiple req/s and ignoring TOS / Robots.txt / etc, you will be in deep trouble.

Some examples:

http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case456.cfm

http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case511.cfm/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browse_wrap

One more time: you are about demonstration of copyrighted content, on another domains (showed cases are about it)

But you do not need to show any data, you just collect prices and make some analytics for own pricing (no using content, no reposts, no publishing anywhere).

As you know all stores mark their prices with microdata to send them in search engines with prices (its open public info).

One more time: you are about demonstration of copyrighted content, on another domains (showed cases are about it)

But you do not need to show any data, you just collect prices and make some analytics for own pricing (no using content, no reposts, no publishing anywhere).

As you know all stores mark their prices with microdata to send them in search engines with prices (its open public info).

Yes, but I mention again, you implicitly agree (when warned accordingly) to a TOS if you visit someones domain. If you violate that TOS, no matter what you do, no matter what you copy, you simply are vulnerable to being sued for a completely VALID reason. If a TOS contains a simple thing like 'no scraping allowed for competitive advantages', you are already done.

And yes, stores can use micro data, but that in not even the slightest way, renders their TOS useless.

Once again, I am just warning users, that if they are not careful and mess with the wrong party, they can get sued. Its dangerous to do stuff like this if you do not read the TOS / footprint.

Yes, but I mention again, you implicitly agree (when warned accordingly) to a TOS if you visit someones domain. If you violate that TOS, no matter what you do, no matter what you copy, you simply are vulnerable to being sued for a completely VALID reason. If a TOS contains a simple thing like 'no scraping allowed for competitive advantages', you are already done.

And yes, stores can use micro data, but that in not even the slightest way, renders their TOS useless.

Once again, I am just warning users, that if they are not careful and mess with the wrong party, they can get sued. Its dangerous to do stuff like this if you do not read the TOS / footprint.

Thank you for your opinion again.

Let users decide how to work with their prices and competitors based on the fact that actions can lead to risks.

Business is always risk.

Lol, no scalping for competitive reasons… can you imagine you get sued because you just looking a price 🤣 competition for better prices is the principal of open markets in western world. Can you imagine someone sue you because you check his prices and you make better prices than him? If you go public with that news is the best advertisement 🤣

Usually these types of services are illegal, its not recommended to use stuff like this. Numerous companies have been sued by providing services like this as this sometimes does not comply with the 'fair use policy' of the domains you are comparing your price with.

You are undermining peoples confidence in this addon.

And you are quite wrong.

It is not unlawful, illegal or anything of the sort. It is a valuable tool to keep prices competetive and make users browsing experiences better/faster and more relevent.

Used by millions of companies throughout the world, price comarison websites / google flights/ booking.com to name a few

you using the words "usually" and "sometimes" "these types" are general terms that show you dont know what you are talking about.

It is down to the individual to protect their own assets from being "scraped" just the same as it is down to a bricks and mortar store stopping a competitir walking in and copying down prices.

how does in monitor prices, does it need the exact same product code or BAr code number or something ?

Its not search engine crawler, you have to provide link for each product.