I strongly dislike such tactics since it causes people to waste a ton of time dealhunting, but isn't this usually to the benefit of the poor? These tactics allow companies to price discriminate and charge the rich more -- since they won't spend the time clipping coupons, waiting inline on black friday, or waiting for sales -- and thus theoretically subsidizes the 'discounted' prices for the poor.
On a separate note, what information from my email gets sent to your servers? Do you run a search for "Amazon", "receipts", etc. in GMail's cloud, then only send matching email to your server?