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We’re all tired of shopping bots beating us to the punch when we’re trying to buy hard-to-find items. Take some of the power back from the scalpers by creating your own bot to notify you of inventory updates when they happen. UptimeRobot: Waiting for a product to be restocked? Create a personal robot to alert…

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We’re all tired of shopping bots beating us to the punch when we’re trying to buy hard-to-find items. Take some of the power back from the scalpers by creating your own bot to notify you of inventory updates when they happen.

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Waiting for a product to be restocked? Create a personal robot to alert you

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42 Comments

  1. benjamín saravia

    November 20, 2021 at 1:59 pm

    Lifehack! ????

  2. tcitrus

    November 20, 2021 at 2:08 pm

    OMG! I am using this right away. I am tired of paying scalping prices. BTW, Happy Birthday ????.

  3. Ganyu

    November 20, 2021 at 2:44 pm

    If you can’t beat them, join them

  4. R N

    November 20, 2021 at 3:06 pm

    Genius!

  5. Steven H.

    November 20, 2021 at 3:26 pm

    It’s clever, but no one should have to go to all that trouble just to get a PS5.
    It’s up to individual shops to not give a platform for scalpers.

    • Zach W.

      November 20, 2021 at 5:24 pm

      100% correct

    • SecretOfMonkeyIsland

      November 21, 2021 at 10:27 am

      Some of them limit orders to 2 per customer, but to me this is still too much, it should be 1 per customer address on high demand items

  6. Edy

    November 20, 2021 at 3:33 pm

    Happy birthday man

  7. David Jamgochian

    November 20, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    Good Readings

  8. gustavo acosta

    November 20, 2021 at 4:16 pm

    Sony is literally doing it on purpose to make it seem like they’re selling more????

    • Bobby Danka

      November 20, 2021 at 4:32 pm

      Doing what on purpose? Making them unavailable? Wouldn’t making them AVAILABLE actually sell more though? 😛

  9. Seascape Feedback

    November 20, 2021 at 4:28 pm

    irresponsible .. this crap just makes it worse

  10. Jon Deak

    November 20, 2021 at 4:40 pm

    What this guy fails to tell you is that this services IP addresses are already Blocked by companies like Best Buy, GameStop, Walmart etc so everytime the bot goes to monitor the page it’s blocked. You also have to pay for the pro version which sets the monitor to every 1 minute vs the free version is set to every 5 minutes. Regardless, this bot is already burnout. Don’t waste your money or hopes this will work because it won’t . On a side note, BestBuy even is using an image for their Sold Out button to hide the status from any Bots. Doesn’t work folks. Sorry.

    • UrbanLegend2k11

      November 20, 2021 at 7:33 pm

      Damn. ????

  11. Gary Beltz

    November 20, 2021 at 5:07 pm

    Isn’t the inspect option only available on Macs?

  12. Mike Novelli

    November 20, 2021 at 5:41 pm

    This just contributes more to the problem. Would you teach a bunch of people how to become violent because the surrounding environment has become hyper-violent? That’s essentially what you are doing for shopping. You ARE part of the problem. And now you’ve influenced others to add to the problem even more….

    • LM

      November 20, 2021 at 9:33 pm

      if you cant beat them join them

    • Mike Novelli

      November 20, 2021 at 9:41 pm

      @LM exactly the problem

  13. Rafael Batista

    November 20, 2021 at 6:23 pm

    This is horrible and needs more dislikes this is exactly what we don’t need

  14. Paul Ho

    November 20, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    I got my hands on a PS5 bundle with Spiderman: Miles Morales, Ratchet and Clank and COD: The Village, but I still haven’t unboxed it because I don’t have a good enough TV yet.

    • Jay Hipfire

      November 20, 2021 at 8:29 pm

      Lol & I bought 85” Sony 900H TV just for the PS5
      &… still don’t have a PS5 smh

    • Paul Ho

      November 20, 2021 at 8:34 pm

      @Jay Hipfire we out here clowning. ????

  15. Brenden Pragasam

    November 20, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    Graphics card buyers unite!

  16. Bryant Mitchell

    November 20, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    low stock ideas should require a deposit, maybe that would slow down bots

  17. Jeremy Thanaparamy

    November 20, 2021 at 8:47 pm

    This is for stop out of stock normal Lifestyle Less no more Scalper weird fix Support Slow down view

  18. Robert Alford Green

    November 20, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    Please don’t encourage this.

  19. Twisted Trigger Enduro

    November 20, 2021 at 9:08 pm

    Got lucky getting a RTX3080 graphics card but can’t seem to find an Xbox X. Wish me luck. ????

  20. magerageful

    November 20, 2021 at 9:46 pm

    How about everyone not paying 2x or more for ps5? So that will stop scalpers!

  21. SecretOfMonkeyIsland

    November 20, 2021 at 10:20 pm

    Amazing i am going to try and use this, hopefully will work for UK sites too and is free. Otherwise being a programmer i thought id have to write and host my own site scraper to pickup the status change on the site.

  22. simon

    November 20, 2021 at 10:33 pm

    I just walk in target and I found 2 switch oled.

  23. Frank

    November 21, 2021 at 12:47 am

    Or, or you can purchase a book as a gift!

  24. Alex Rothery

    November 21, 2021 at 1:30 am

    Well I guess this goes back to “If you can’t beat them, join them”

  25. DarthRaider

    November 21, 2021 at 3:23 am

    If you can’t get a ps5 you’re not trying hard enough . I got mine on day 1

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  27. David Rodriguez

    November 22, 2021 at 8:02 pm

    Great video

  28. useduction

    November 23, 2021 at 3:14 pm

    Now, I need a monitor to monitor this BOT! ????

  29. Charley Edwards

    November 24, 2021 at 12:16 pm

    good job man

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