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by xur17 4289 days ago
Good point. It returns the price from Amazon so you can do a price comparison - the product information is mainly there so you can quickly make sure it returned the correct product.

The main use case I see is to quickly lookup a product's price with a dumb phone (or a smartphone if you don't want to install an app). It also sends back a link to the product, and the title of the product.