Tag: SHOPPING

It just became a really good idea to take your Google Android device shopping with you. Android now packs a barcode scanning feature that plugs into Google's Mobile Product Search database, so you can compare prices on items you find and see if it might be cheaper to buy online. The scanner currently works best with media like books and dvds, or with electronics, but more products are being added ...

Amazon.com is a storehouse of useful information whether you're looking to buy something or just find information about it. But generally you have to first enter your search term and then click through to a product page to find items like customer reviews or sales rank. Amazanian is a web site that uses the Amazon API to provides mode detailed information on the search results page. For each ...

If you do a lot of shopping at Amazon and a lot of comparison shopping or product research on Google, you might want to check out the GoogAzon add-on for Firefox. Once installed, any time you search for an item on Google, you'll also see the top search result for your query from Amazon. If a single product listing isn't good enough, just click the "see top 10 items" button and a list of 10 ...

Online auction site eBay has launched a a new tool that makes it easy to find out how much an item is selling for on eBay even when you're visiting another site. It's called Browser Highlighter, and here's how it works. You download and install the tool, and then when you're searching for items on selected sites, a "compare on eBay" button will appear. Click the button and a window will pop up ...

There's no question that PayPal is one of the easiest ways to send and receive payments for items bought on eBay. But since the online auction site was founded, users were able to send checks or arrange payments via other methods if they were more convenient. Now all that's about to change. Starting in about a month, eBay will stop allowing users to send checks or money orders as payment for items ...

Need to find the perfect T-shirt, but don't know where to turn? You could browse online T-shirt stores like Threadless and BustedTees for clever, ironic, or stupid shirts. Or you could turn to PleaseDressMe, a new T-shirt search engine from Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV fame (plus his brother and a few other guys). You can browse PleaseDressMe by tag, price or color. Or you can search by ...

Microsoft is apparently throwing around some of the money it didn't spend on buying Yahoo! or Facebook this year. Steve Ballmer recently pulled $486 million out of his wallet to acquire Greenfield Online, the German company that runs price comparison and shopping portal Ciao. The move could help Microsoft make inroads with European internet users. Ciao receives over 26 million unique visitors ...

TypoBuddy, like previously reviewed TypoTracker, helps you find deals by searching for misspelled variations of the items you search for. Why? Because most people that search for a particular item will try to spell it right - meaning that listings with typos might go unnoticed, and you'll wind up getting a sweet deal just because some seller was careless enough to not check his or her typing. ...

If you happen to buy or sell on eBay frequently, the Lauge custom browser is an interesting tool you'll want to check out. Lauge sports a ton of functionality that makes using eBay less bothersome. The search tab provides a handy tree view of all eBay categories and makes navigation around the site a snap; favorite your go-to categories to access them quickly later. It also includes a simple ...

We love to see iPhone apps that are designed with phone users in mind. Ports of desktop apps -- chat clients, games, etc. -- are all well and good, but the mobile-specific stuff really shines. Take Gifter, for example. It's an app that lets you buy and send gifts from your iPhone. Can someone please write Gifter into a romantic comedy? We could totally see Tom Hanks frantically ordering flowers ...

One of the great things about shopping on Amazon is that you can read through dozens, if not hundreds of user reviews. While expert and editorial reviews can give you a sense of whether an item is worth the sale price, user reviews will let you know whether you should expect it to fall apart the moment you unpack the box. But who has time to sift through hundreds of reviews when you just want ...

While eBay is busy annoying its power sellers by raising fees and changing its policy on digital goods, a bunch of new companies are popping up and hoping to grab a little piece of the online sales pie that eBay has been hogging. Fididel is a new site that aims to differentiate itself from other auction/retail sites by letting buyers and sellers negotiate prices in real-time. At first glance, ...

How often have you been out walking your dog when it suddenly occurs to you that you forgot to order the latest Lemony Snicket book? Well, now you can place your order without going to a store or waiting until you home and plop yourself back in front of a computer for the rest of the day. Just pull out your cellphone and send a text message with an item name to AMAZON (262966) thanks to a new ...

Have your eye on the Macbook Air, but don't want to pull the trigger and buy one until Steve Jobs drops the price by a few hundred bucks? You could keep hitting refresh on the Apple Store page from now until eternity. Or you could have Price!pinx send you an email when the price changes. Here's how it works. You drag a Price!pinx bookmarklet to your browser toolbar. Then whenever you visit a ...

You may already know that you'll probably save money by ordering prints of your digital photos online or at the local drug store than by printing them yourself. They don't call printer ink black gold for nothing. But all online photo printing services are not created equal. PrintRates lets you find the best deals meeting your criteria. You can select what size prints you're looking for, how many ...