About MeepleTracker
MeepleTracker is a price comparison site for board games. Look up a game and we show what it costs at every store we know, delivered to your door: shipping and, where a parcel crosses a customs border, import costs included.
We cover board game stores in Europe, North America and Australia.
Every store, not just the ones that pay us
MeepleTracker searches board games across more stores than any other site. And we always show you the best price, because we show every result we have, not just the stores with an affiliate deal. The list is sorted by what you pay delivered, cheapest first. An affiliate link never moves a store up the list, and a store without one is never left out.
Stores that have the game but don't deliver to you are listed too, below the others, so you know they exist.
How it works
- Our crawler reads the stores' public product pages and product feeds, a few times a day.
- We match each product to the game it is, and work out the delivered price for your country from the store's shipping rates.
- We keep the price history, so you can see whether today's price is a good one. Set a price alert on any game's page and we email you when it drops to your price.
Our crawler
Our crawler is a friendly one. You can tell it is us by its user agent, which always starts with:
MeepleTrackerBot- It obeys
robots.txt: pages it disallows forMeepleTrackerBotor for every bot (*) are never fetched. - It honours
Crawl-delay, and makes one request at a time per store, with at least two seconds between them. - When a store answers 429 or 503 it waits as long as
Retry-Afterasks, and backs off for a while when it keeps happening. - It reads public pages and feeds only. It never logs in, never fills a basket and never places an order.
Want it to visit less, differently, or not at all? Say so in your robots.txt, or write to admin@meepletracker.com. See Legal to have your store added or removed.
How results are ordered
Stores that deliver to you are sorted by the total you pay delivered: the item price plus shipping and, where a parcel crosses a customs border, import costs, cheapest first. Offers that are sold out come after the ones you can buy, and between two equal totals the faster delivery comes first.
Stores that have the game but don't deliver to you come after those, sorted by their own price without shipping, cheapest first.
Nothing else decides the order. No store can pay to be shown, to be shown higher, or to keep a competitor out, and affiliate links never change it. See how we earn money.