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kdoske · Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 80

I wanted a way to monitor items of my choosing in newegg.com to know as soon as an item became available in Open Box form. Open box is an item that was purchased and sent back to new egg becuase the customer didn't want it anymore after it arrived. Open box items can be purchased sometimes at half the price of its New in box form as can be seen from the screen shot below. Since it was easy to do I also made it keep track of the current price even though newegg has a price alert feature. You can have the program notify you via a gmail account when the price drops or an open box becomes available. The gmail password is encrypted using the Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA).

Proof that it works - I needed an Areca 8port Sata Raid Card (ARC-1120). I added it to the program and it became available in open box in 5 days, It saved me $128.00!!! 2 of the other items i have added to the list have been on for 12 days and open box items have still not become available Sad

. Its a hit or miss really, but if you don't need it right away its awesome.

Using:
You simply navigate to the newegg item you want and push the Add Current Item to list button and it adds it to the monitor list(only works in Firefox, If using IE you will have to add manually). You then set the interval you want to check for updates and enter in your gmail data and your done. Double clicking on an item will open up the item in your browser in its new in box form. You can right click on an item in the list to view OpenBox Webpage, New Item Webpage, and Remove from list. There is also a remove Selected Item from list, Force update, and Test email button. The add item manually button is to copy and past the webaddress yourself instead of the program doing it for you. The window stays on top, has a slight transparency and is minimized in your system tray after you close it. To have it not run simply right click the icon in the system tray and click exit. To reopen and adjust setting just right click and then click settings.

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.autohotkey.net/~kdoske/New%20Egg%20Monitor.zip

Let me know what you guys think and if there are any bugs. After posting I realized that I didn't incorporate it to work while browsing with IE, I use Firefox. You can still use the manually add button though. Oh sorry the icon looks so crapy and is 300kb, im tired.

Credit Where Credit is Due:
TEA - http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4391
Gmail - http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39797
COM Standard Library - http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22923

BoffinbraiN · Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 114

Looks very nicely done. :) Not to burst your bubble, but NewEgg already has a Price Alert feature, so what does this provide that's different?

kdoske · Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 80

BoffinbraiN · Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 114

I think I must have been quite distracted at work, as I clearly didn't read that paragraph explaining Open Box properly. My bad!

kdoske · Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 80

Carcophan · Joined: 24 Dec 2008 Posts: 1308 Location: :noitacoL

now you just need to make it set a 'price limit/range' and a 'buy it' option so when Item_X does become available, you can automatically buy it Idea

(As this gains popularity... say me and you have the same item up on our list, we both get emails when it pops on the list, and I beat you to the site and buy that item you've wanted for 5 weeks. )

Sounds good on paper, probably the worst idea ever though as you may end up with 40 1TB HDD's or something silly accidently Rolling Eyes

I really like this idea, I love to see how inovative and creative people can get with there scripts. This is great stuff.

kdoske · Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 80

MasterFocus · Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:16 am Post subject:

I think "auto purchase" based on price is a bad idea,
but something like a "Buy It" button (based on selected item) would be fine.
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kdoske · Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 80

jukemaster · Joined: 10 Aug 2011 Posts: 1

anyone else having difficulty with this program not working?

trying to buy a laptop and would love to get a deal on a openbox item. I have tried it on Windows 7 x64 and a virtual XP to no avail.

pm Kdoske as a long shot and havent heard anything back yet...

would looove to get this working, or if any one has other ideas Im all ears..

Thanks much!

J

Guest · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:37 am Post subject:

I wish it was working too :[

rbarett96 · Guest

Any way of getting this to work on win7? I've been trying to get that gtx 580 3 gb for 279 for months now : (