On Your Side: Shop Around
Originally aired 6/26/06 on WRDW:
The Internet has made shopping for just about anything as easy as point and click.
But if that’s too much work for you, there are sites out there that make Internet shopping even more convenient.
12 On Your Side’s Ryan Duffy shows the sites that help you shop around.
No matter what you’re looking to buy, there are people out there looking to sell. What’s not so easy is finding them, and at the lowest possible prices.
Scott Villemain shops online because he can shop from anywhere.
Convenient, yes, but it can be a lot of work to track down the lowest price. That’s why he uses comparison sites.
Comparison sites search through all the shopping sites across the web. They find the lowest price on anything you’re looking for.
“Once you decide what you want, you can find the lowest price on what you want,” Scott says.
And the sites are changing how we shop online.
One place you can really save with these sites is on travel. For example, on a website you’ve heard of like Orbitz, a trip from Chicago to Augusta is $573.
On the Travelocity site, the same trip is $771.
But on the comparison site, Sidestep.com, the flight is $446…by far the lowest price.
A couple of the best sites are sidestep.com for travel and froogle.com for buying just about anything else.
“You can search Amazon, eBay, all kinds of sites, Barnes and Noble, whatever you’re looking for,” says Dylan Bredengerd of PowerServe I.T. Consulting. “But often times the best first to start at a comparison shopping site.”
And Scott knows that besides cash, they’ll save you a ton of time.
“Time, and peace of mind knowing you got the best price out there, because they are combing through all the sites that you can’t waste time looking through,” he says.
These websites are a great tool, no doubt about it. If you want to try it out, check out the websites below:
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- http://shopping.yahoo.com
- http://become.com
- http://shopper.cnet.com
- http://www.pricegrabber.com
- http://www.shopping.com
- http://shopzilla.com
- http://instore.com
- http://edeals.com
- http://froogle.google.com
- http://shopping.msn.com
- http://nextag.com
- http://smarter.com
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