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Which South African retailers we track, and how

Store by store — what actually works, what doesn't, and why. No retailer pays for placement here, so there's no reason to overstate our own coverage.

MyDealDrop reads prices the same way a search engine does: from the same public structured data (schema.org markup) most online stores already publish on their own pages, for their own search-result listings. We don't have — and no retailer we track has offered us — an official pricing feed. Full detail on the bot itself is on our about-our-bot page; this is the retailer-by- retailer result of running it.

Working today

• Incredible Connection and HiFi Corp — both product pages and whole category pages are readable, so we both refresh known prices and discover new listings automatically.
• Makro and Bash — product pages are blocked, but category listing pages aren't, so discovery works the same way through those instead.
• Evetech — product pages work; we found the real listings through Evetech's own public sitemap.

Not working, and why

• Takealot and Wootware — both block any non-browser visitor outright, including a bot that identifies itself honestly. We don't spoof a browser to get around that; a block is a decision to respect, not an obstacle to route around.
• Game — pages load, but don't carry the structured price data we read elsewhere.

Manual only

A handful of smaller stores (Robinsons, Everyshop, IT Store) have listings on MyDealDrop that were added by hand rather than tracked automatically — real products, but their price history won't refresh itself the way the stores above do.

If you run one of these sites

If you'd rather we didn't crawl your site, or want to offer a real feed instead, email [email protected] — see about-our-bot for the detail.

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