Comments on: Price comparison sites — small fish, big fish

By: LessLettuce

LessLettuce — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:09:58 +0000

I think the problem that most people are finding when building price-comparison sites is how to find the ‘root product’ (or ‘duplicates’ as Gabriel mentioned). It’s almost impossible if there isn’t sufficient data to go by, even google shopping doesn’t get it right. We’re working on some pretty hefty alogorithms to try and get many of them sorted.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:10:05 +0000

Just as others on this page, I’ve also launched a price comparison website. I’m using feeds from stores provided by affiliate networks such as Commission Junction and Google Affiliate Network. I’ve built an import application which is importing somewhere close to 3 million products in about 10 hours or so. Duplicates are filtered (on most of the price comparison websites you’ll find lots of duplicates). Only products that meet certain criteria are imported. Now, based on what I’ve read here, I have some ideas about how to further improve my price comparison website. The very first thing I’ll do is to build an application which will check the price from the merchant’s website directly. My price comparison website can be found at http://TheRealPrices.com

Just wanted to let you know:)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:32:55 +0000

These shopping sites are only as good as the shops they have included on their network and from my experience most of them are very cost prohibitive so how good can they really be if they aren’t impartial to showing everyone?

But to be fair we’ve had a positive experience with the price comparison site http://www.superstoresearch.com/ which we came across over at the SBF boards and have been showing our products on their site for free – I don’t know what the catch is but we haven’t paid anything so can’t complain about that.

It seems that only the big name high street brands are getting all the attention online and it sidesteps the smaller businesses because no one knows about them but we do find that there is more exposure to potential customers by joining on to these shopping network type of sites.

By: Mike Meade

Mike Meade — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:48:25 +0000

Great discussion guys, just to add a little more to the comments, we also have a comparison site http://www.icoste.com and we use 100% our own feeds which are constantly being updated. We dont rely on other feeds from Pricegrabber or Kelkoo etc.

Our comparisons are unique and we try to focus on user reviews and comments to give our visitors more information about products.

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By: Jawahar

Jawahar — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:19:25 +0000

One of the problems with price comparison sites is that you typically have to visit more than one site to find the best deal. We are launching http://www.centgram.com soon where you can compare prices from multiple comparison shopping sites in one search. We are preparing to launch public beta in October 2008. In the meanwhile, you can check out our blog http://www.centgram.com/blog for deals and bargains we highlight regularly.

By: Owen

Owen — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:55:43 +0000

Thanks for this advice…its answered a lot of questions for me!

By: Chile Bob

Chile Bob — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:26:43 +0000

I am getting so sick of seeing the same thing on all of those sites. No matter what I search for “shopping comparison sites”, “product comparisons”, “Compare products” because it just kept coming back to the same feeds that compare prices for a product across multiple merchants. That’s fine for late in the buying cycle when you know exactly what you want, but just need to get the best price. But what if you want a tent, but don’t know which is the best one to get? Most review sites are just biased crap that the merchant puts out, or an affiliate who is motivated to SELL you on a product. I found http://www.comparethebrands.com/ a few weeks ago though and it is the answer to what I’ve been looking for. Say you want to buy a gas grill, but don’t know which is the best one to get in your price range. THIS would be the site to go to, and from what I can tell they don’t use ANY feeds at all. Sorry, just had to throw in my 2 cents.

By: mauricio zuniga

mauricio zuniga — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:55:23 +0000

Likewise, we have since launched our own price comparison engine at http://www.ChaoSearch.com . Not only do we provide you with our own search results, but also give you access to just about every other major e-commerces provider as well as most major comparison sites. This gives you the ultimate way to search for the lowest price. This is comparing the comparison sites and then some. If you would like to get listed on the ChaoSearch resource, please send me an email.