Posts Tagged ‘comparison shopping sites’

HealthPricer.com does all the right things

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

HealthPricer.com - Comparison Shopping for Health ProductsI haven’t bought contacts in over two years, and it was definitely time for a repurchase. I already wrote about HealthPricer.com earlier, and I figured I’d give it a go.

Within a couple of clicks I found a price on my PureVision contacts that saved me $21 per box. Now that’s impressive! However, the website I went to confused me with a prescription request. Frustrated, I returned to HealthPricer.com and looked for where I purchased my contacts previously. I found 1800Contacts.com, and once on their site I noticed the Unbeatable Price Guarantee. They also still had my prescription on file.

So, kudos to HealthPricer.com for getting me the lowest price, and kudos to 1800Contacts.com for making it easy for me to checkout and still get the best price!

HealthPricer continues to be a good example of how a niche comparison shopping engine can provide excellent benefits to consumers. I believe we will continue to see growth in this area of comparison shopping sites.

Tags: , ,
Posted in Comparison Sites | No Comments »

List of comparison shopping engines

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

NOTE: Last updated February 4th, 2008.

Recently I took up the task of managing my company’s comparison shopping feeds. These comparison search engines like NexTag, Shopping.com, and Shopzilla are a great way to get your company’s products some more face time with the buying consumer.

Since I spent a good amount of time tracking down all of the comparison shopping engines, I figured a good first post for my blog would be to list the engines I know of, as well as classify their model. I hope you find this useful!

LIST OF COMPARISON SHOPPING SITES

    Cost Per Click Comparison Engines

  1. Shopping.com – the market-leader, owned by eBay and also runs DealTime.
  2. Shopzilla – also runs BizRate.
  3. PriceGrabber – powers an impressive array of other comparison shopping websites like CNET, MySimon.com and AOL Shopping.
  4. NexTag – one of my personal favorites.
  5. Smarter.com – A smaller player that is still worth placing on.
  6. StreetPrices.com – a really small comparison search engine that hasn’t seen much development lately.
  7. Yahoo! Shopping – Surprisingly does not give my company too many click-throughs, despite being the most trafficked comparison shopping engine.
  8. PriceRunner.com – did not carry hardly any of my company’s products. Probably like StreetPrices.com.
  9. FindGift.com – For gift ideas. Shoddy user-interface.
  10. Gifts.com – For gift ideas, with a better user-interface and more traffic than FindGift.
  11. Like.com – visual shopping. Pretty much completely for apparel.
  12. PriceFish.com – Low traffic, but a comparison shopping engine nonetheless.
    Free Comparison Shopping Engines

  1. Google Product Search – absolutely every e-commerce site should submit to this. Free with quite a few incoming clicks.
  2. Live Product Search – currently difficult to submit products.
    Cost Per Sale or Cost Per Action Comparison Sites

  1. Jellyfish - Microsoft snatched this fast-growing engine quickly. Cost per sale isn’t new, but the way Jellyfish does it is.
  2. Amazon.com – transaction is made at Amazon, and fees range from 8%-15% plus a monthly fee.
  3. Shop.com – like Amazon, sale happens on their site. They charge referral fees.
  4. Underbid.com – Lags behind other CPA models. Still, free clicks until a sale is made.
  5. Priceforsure.com – Their traffic is below Underbid.
    Crawler Comparison Search Engines

  1. TheFind.com - free, but you cannot set up an account. You can submit your site to be crawled.
  2. Become.com – used to be solely a crawler site; now one can sign up for a CPC account as well. If you are ranking well, don’t bother. UPDATE: Looks like they get their listings from Shopping.com as well.
  3. BuyersEdge.com – quite a bit like Become.com. Same rules apply (except maybe not the Shopping.com part).
  4. Pronto.com – Ditto.
  5. Pricescan.com – Crawler or manual listing, looks free.
    Other Comparison Search Engines

  1. SortPrice.com – pay a monthly fee no matter the number of clicks. Only makes sense if you anticipate quite a few clicks per month.
  2. Priceleap.com – appears to be a reasonable monthly fee with unlimited clicks. Traffic is really low, though.
  3. Kelkoo – the United Kingdom comparison shopping engine. Quite a market if you sell internationally.
  4. ciao.co.uk – premier European comparison shopping site. Cost per click model.
  5. pricesavvy.co.uk – European comparison shopping, free registration and listing.
  6. pricecheck.co.za – A South Africa comparison shopping engine, not sure of cost structure.
  7. jump.co.za – Another South Africa shopping engine – cost per click.
  8. Tolmol.com – Specific to India but open to the world – cost per click.
  9. ShareASale - affiliate marketing, gets others to sell your products for you. Fee types vary.
  10. ShopLocal.com

Tags: , ,
Posted in Comparison Sites | 2 Comments »