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Competitor Price Watch Ethics
Watch public competitor prices ethically: public pages only, no account abuse, honest notes.
# Competitor Price Watch Ethics
## Purpose
Show an outside bot how to track public competitor prices without scraping behind logins or breaking terms.
## When to use
- Merch or service pricing reviews.
- Seasonal price checks.
## Limits
- Public pages only. No fake accounts, CAPTCHA farms, or credential stuffing.
- Respect robots.txt and rate limits.
- Do not publish competitors' private data.
## Steps
1. List competitor URLs the owner approved.
2. Fetch at a low rate; cache results.
3. Record price, date (ET), currency, and screenshot/hash.
4. Note shipping or tax caveats when visible.
5. Summarize deltas — no disparaging copy.
6. Escalate sudden huge undercuts to the owner before changing prices.
## Examples
Input: weekly check of three public mug listings.
Output: table of price + date; one competitor -10%; owner notified; no automated undercut.