Bots, Comparison Sites and Catalogs Shopping
(short for robots) search the web for products you specify.
ZDNET's: Computer Shopper
Price Scan is updated daily, and, more than any site of its kind, refreshes its price database by scouring magazine ads and vendor catalogs to bring you the most current look at who's selling what for how much. It allows searching by keyword or category, offers product reviews from site visitors, includes estimated shipping costs, and estimated shipping times.
Consumer Review
google catalogs
Best Web Buys
Deal Time
Gomez reviews each site, within the segment, and ranks them by a set of 120 or more criteria points.
Pricing Central links to, and describes, many of the major shopping comparison bot web pages. It's a great place to start your search.
nextag allows customers to shop by price range, brand name or other features (such as by the storage format in a camera).
my Simon has 14 different comparison categories, shoping for products at more than 2,000 online stores, allows sorting search results by several criteria, offers information on shipping costs, merchant reliability ratings (from Gomez Associates), and allows alteration of completed searches.
Excite Shopping, formerly Jango, searches dozens of stores for the best prices on several types of products. It has a very extensive catalog of items to be shown.
Rating Wonders rates web shopping resources and helps people reach the best online stores; briefly describing the specialty of each store.
Web Market allows searching by keyword or category, gives product reviews and has teamed with BizRate to offer ratings of the merchants.
Necx carries more than 30,000 products, tracks the manufacturers rebates, and beats other sites in pricing considerably.
Price Watch compares mail order shopping pages. You will get the best prices here if you are willing to risk using your credit
Deja, in addition to price searching, offers extremely strong product information and reviews. It has experts available for questions, collects product ratings from visitors, allows searching by keyword or directory browsing. "Search results include merchant profiles, estimated shipping costs, and product availability."
biz rate ranks online retailers based on customers' experiences. It also provides detailed information about vendors' return policies, security and shipping information.
deal catcher "monitors more than 350 Internet retailers and points you to online sales, discounts and coupons on books, DVD movies, electronics, food, clothing, jewelry and more."
bottom dollar "searches dozens of stores to find the best prices on several types of products, including books, clothing, food, magazines, computing equipment, and toys. Its results include estimated shipping costs and estimated arrival time."
According to recently published PC Data rankings, Redmond based imandi ranked first among all reverse marketplace Web sites. These types of sites match consumers with a network of national and local merchants.
Yahoo Shopping offers searches through dozens of product categories by keyword or directory, has incorporated ShopFind.com into its shopping service, but doesn't offer much beyond product and price listings.
Store Runner allows you to shop by merchants who allow in store returns. Searches can be sorted by price, brand, store, etc. It has a good selection of quality stores.
Deal Time searches dozens of stores for thousands of products, offers product reviews, detailed product information, term definitions, merchant reliability ratings, and will continue searching for a better deal on a product, if you request it to do so, (as new deals are found) , sending you e-mail updates.
shopping list is very well laid out, an excellent links page, and allows you to find (by putting in your zip code) the best deals in your area.
Compare Net has a daily updated shopping bot that finds the best prices.
Price Wonders has price comparisions for computers, books, movies and music.