 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rossell here as usual bringing you this video today from Jerusalem Firstly, sorry for the relative lack of uploads lately. I've got a couple of emails from people watching these videos checking in on me Which was very Considerate. I did say that I was going to be uploading videos a bit slower Going forward, but I didn't mean that I was going to stop uploading to this youtube channel at least All together. I've just been a little bit busy lately With some of the very boring things that small business owners do at the start of a fiscal year and After the end of the preceding fiscal year stuff like updating pensions Karen, he still moots and Because I run I guess a digital business. I'm a service provider I also do a lot of usually my digital archiving For the last year at the start of the new year, which is two years fiscal back and stuff like archiving expenses receipts tax returns files a lot of different things and Before this youtube channel was just about israel. I did quite a few videos about backup and archive Which is a subject. I'm quite interested in and I talked a lot about the mdisk Very cool little tech That brought me on to I'm looking for a new Blu-ray burner or I was looking at buying a Blu-ray burner on amazon Blu-ray is used for data archiving and I came across this product and I said this would actually be a good Jumping off point to do just a quick video about using camel camel camel For price alerts if you're based in israel So the reason I chose this one is because it's very close currently to the Vast cut off as people know products that are more than 75 bucks in israel incur vat of 17 percent and amazon Nicely calculates this for you. So it does a import fee deposit And you can see here that the product is 79 10 and their amazon are taking about 20 bucks for A deposit. So I actually just bought this for my optical media collection but You know, if you were really motivated to Try to wait for this product a little bit to come below 75 bucks There is a way to do that. So firstly you're going to need the amazon url So i'm just copying that from my browser then go on to this website called camel camel camel camel camel camel dot com I recommend setting up setting up an account that way you can get the price alerts And then you want to just place the url into this thing and hit search Now it's detected that the price is 79 dollars and 10 cents Which as we know is just four dollars above that 75 dollar threshold And what you can see here is The price history now you have the option for a third party Another third party provider and amazon here on the left and the one I would recommend doing is this this price watch because Usually in uh, when we're getting stuff the chips to israel it's typically coming from amazon fulfillment And less from third party sellers. Now. This is really what you want to see. It's the amazon price history And this will show you i'll just make myself a bit smaller here A graph Of the price history over time now you can choose between amazon third party new and third party use and again My recommendation is to just look at the amazon data. I'm going up to the top of the screen here And what you can see here is that we're looking at a all-time history Starting in 2014. This is quite an old product through to 2024 and we can see how the price has fluctuated Over time our level of 75 dollars is here on the left of the screen And we can see that actually for probably most of its price history This product has been at lower than 75 dollars and in fact its average price was 70 Now what this won't tell you is if the shipping to israel Free promo was always applied. So you might find that at one point it was below 75 But then they were charging 50 bucks for shipping, which is why I ordered it now because i'm not really that I think that it's a good deal as it is with the 20 dollars and given that the shipping is free But anyway, you can get a feel for it and you might see that this was actually Frequently below and you want to wait a little bit to order Um, you can see the current price the average price and the highest ever price Okay, enough of that now what you want to do is create a price watch So just on the left here you have the create a price watch button And they have some presets like 3 off would be a list price of 76 bucks 5 off would be 75 and 14. That's just over the vat Limit so what you can actually do is set a custom amount here You can also do any price drop if you really want to see all but it might be too much Notifications, so the one I might do is 70 I might set my my threshold is 74 dollars And 99 right although I think it's quite unusual to see a product price like that Or to be a bit safer because some people think that the the customs people round up to the nearest digits You can just go for the the next integer below 75, which is obviously 74 So I'm going to set 74 as my Limit here and I'm going to click save And now we're creating the alert. So I have the price alert set up now On camo camo camo if you go down little now, we can see that the 74 dollar alert has been saved I'm able to change it and we can see that it's calculated that the product is currently $5.10 above my desired price Tell us how much you want to pay and we will email you when the price drops And you'll get an alert from the website. That's pretty much how it works This can be used not only to check for items that fall below the VAT threshold here for shipping to israel It can also be used to find good deals of course on items And you're looking for products that have kind of a bit of an up and down In their price history, which is why I showed how to look at that So you can see if there's any realistic chance that you're going to get a significant discount Or that it's going to fall below the 75 dollars And just remember you have to check as well for the shipping to israel Because sometimes you will see products falling below that but then the shipping is a lot more expensive And you actually won't save up you won't end up saving money You might end up spending more money But in theory if you buy a lot of stuff on amazon and you're really motivated to This is one tool that is worth at least knowing about Thanks for watching today's video. 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