Got completely wrecked by bans while doing price monitoring — finally got some relief after switching to residential proxies

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Guys, I’ve been getting absolutely crushed lately.

I’ve been running cross-border e-commerce price monitoring, tracking thousands of SKUs every day. Used to rely on datacenter proxies, but as soon as the QPS went up it was constant 403s and captchas. Hitting 60% success rate was already considered “good”. Especially on sites with Cloudflare — pure torture.

So I gritted my teeth and tried a few residential proxy providers. Stepped on quite a few landmines. Some pools look huge on paper but the quality is average, high IP reuse, and after a couple of days they start getting flagged again. Lately I’ve been using Helodata’s residential + ISP mix. Overall feels noticeably more stable than before — success rate stays at a more acceptable level and latency is decent. It’s just standard HTTP/SOCKS5, so almost no changes needed to existing code. If anyone’s interested you can check their site yourself:https://helodata.com?ref=7s9k2g

 

Of course it’s not perfect. For serious anti-bot systems you still need to control your request pace and fingerprints yourself. Proxies are only the foundation.

Curious what everyone else is using for large-scale collection right now, especially e-commerce prices and reviews? Any setups that stay stable long-term? Happy to hear real experiences — no fluff please.