If you run one of the sites we read, this page is for you.

MyDealDrop runs a small automated program (a "bot") that periodically visits publicly published product and category pages on a handful of South African retail sites, reads the price and availability that page is already showing to any visitor, and records it so we can tell our users when a price is genuinely low. This page explains exactly what that bot does and how to stop it if you'd rather it didn't visit your site.

How to identify it

Every request carries this exact User-Agent header, naming itself honestly rather than pretending to be a browser:

What it does and doesn't do

• It only ever requests pages that are publicly visible to anyone — no login, no CAPTCHA-solving, no bypassing of any access control.
• It reads the same structured price/availability data (schema.org markup) your page already publishes for Google Shopping and search-engine rich results — it doesn't scrape rendered layout or hidden data.
• It checks robots.txt before every single request and stays off anything disallowed there.
• It waits several seconds between requests to the same host and caps how many pages it fetches per run — it is built to be indistinguishable from a slow, polite human visitor in terms of load, never a burst.
• If a site's edge returns an HTTP 403 to it, it backs off entirely for days at a time rather than retrying — a block is treated as a decision to respect, not an obstacle to route around.

If you'd rather we didn't

Email [email protected] and tell us which site. We will stop crawling it — no argument, no delay, no need to explain why. We'd genuinely rather hear from you directly than have you spend time on a blocking rule or a legal letter first.

The same address is the right one for anything else related to this: a price you believe we've recorded incorrectly, a request to remove a specific listing, or just a question about how this works.