Website Review – Shopping.com

In the review series, today, I am going to work on Shopping.com. Shopping.com has a rich front end. The website’s search functionality is strong.  On the company background, the Shopping.com was acquired by eBay

Website Review – Shopzilla.com

As part of the review series, today I am going to review Shopzilla.com.  It has a simple user interface with a powerful price comparison engine.  They have categorized products in 9 categories, and have listed popular searches on the front page. It was founded in 1996.  This LA based company has various

Website Review – StreetPrices.com

Today, I am going to review a nicely designed price comparison engine called Street Prices.  Their website is http://www.streetprices.com. It is a nice price comparison bot specializing in electronic items. A bot is an automatic computer programs that extracts information from the internet.  Besides electronics, they cover other areas as well. I like the website’s [...]

What Online Shopping Tools Can Do For You?

In my last post, I discussed how a salesman sells you an item. After shopping, you may think that you have made a choice of your own free will, but the fact is, the choices given to you were already profiled. So you end up making a choice from given options. On internet it’s kind [...]

Marketing » Pricing » Pricing Discrimination » Discount » Selling

In this blog post, I will use the term “discrimination” in context of economics. This is not being used in the common street way of using the word “discrimination”. Be aware of that when you read this post. I was scheduled to talk about using technology for your advantage, or what shopping tools can do [...]

Products, Attributes, and Attribute Preferences

This post is an extension of branding.  Attributes and attribute preferences are important factors for marketers and buyers. By definition, a product is a collection of attributes. Some of the attributes can

Price Discrimination

Yesterday, I talked about the business model most price matching engines use. Today, I’ll talk about price discrimination.  Price matching engines explore price discrimination for the buyer’s advantage. In a nutshell, price discrimination lets you

Common Features of Price Comparison Websites

Price comparison websites are great tools for shoppers.  They provide insight into comparative prices.   I am going to walk you through simple steps about how to use a price comparison website. I have listed most

Online Price Comparison Services or Tools

To promote competition in the market, the government lets merchants sell their products at variable prices.  Although the government does it to benefit consumers, merchants take advantage of this policy and they vary prices based upon time, geographic location, etc.  I’ll talk more about it in the price discrimination post. Consumers can see varying prices [...]

Where Do You Shop?

Do you shop online? Do you shop in stores? Where do you make up your mind? Is it when you think at free time? Or is it when you watch others? Do you match prices before shopping? Do you search for available deals?  Why are most products sold at different