We're happy to announce a new way to share stats quickly on Reddit! Using our bot, you can quickly leave a comment that shares the current change in price for a product category. This bot must be added to a subreddit by a moderator, and will only reply when summoned.
To use the bot, simply type a comment with this message:
!doeggscostmoreYou can optionally specify one of our product categories as well. If no product category is specified, the price of eggs is returned.
These are our currently supported categories:
eggs
gas
milk
alcohol
bread
canned-goods
clothing
eating-out
energy
fresh-fruit-and-vegetables
frozen-food
housing
lumber
meat
medical-care
new-and-used-vehicles
snacks
soda
We'll return the price change at that time for the last 6 months. The comment won't be updated should the price change in the future and will contain a link to our product page.
For a number of reasons, we don't reply in subreddits where we haven't been given permission. This is mostly to prevent the impression of spam messages or showing up in communities with stricter bot policies.
If you are a moderator of a subreddit and would like our bot to reply, send a direct message to /u/DoEggsCostMore with the word "add" and the name of the subreddit you'd like us to respond to (ie "add politics"). We'll reply back letting you know the bot has been added, and within a few hours we'll start to reply to comments.
To remove the bot, send another DM with "remove" then the name of the subreddit ("remove politics"). We'll reply back to confirm. You an also just ban our bot user /u/DoEggsCostMore, and we'll no longer reply.
When you summon our bot, we only collect the comment ID where we were summoned. We don't collect information about users in the thread, the post itself, or the user that sent the request.
For more information about our bots, please see our Bot Information Page