A Great Price Comparison Shopping Site
Another cool bargain-hunting site I've come across recently is Mpire. It's a shopping search engine, a price-comparison site, and coupon/rebate/prmotion code site all rolled into one. Oh, and they even track price trends, so they can tell you the average sale price, and auction price, of the item your looking for, as well as whether or not the price has been going up or down. Sweet!
Their big partners include eBay, Amazon.com, Yahoo, Overstock.com, and Shopping.com and others. So how does it work?
First, you type in the product you're looking for. For my example, I'll use a couple of the books I recommended in an earlier post.
First I type in keywords for the first book, CSS: The Definitive Guide. That link (yes, it's an affiliate link) takes you to Amazon.com, where the book is selling for $28.34 (and from $23.99 + shipping in the Amazon Marketplace).
Mpire returns 7 stores selling that book, with Amazon's price getting beaten by 2 cents at Overstock.com. But it's still well below Mpire's average store price for the book -- $30.14. The average auction price is just $9.50, though, so I click on the auction tab to see what's available.
I get two eBay results -- one listed at US$7.00 with a Buy It Now price of US$9.00, and the other from eBay UK listed at £31.67 (over US$60). The UK price is way too steep for me, but the US$7.00 looks pretty reasonable, although it's for the older, first edition of the book. The seller says he'll send it to Australia via Airmail for US$9.00, and for that price I can get a second book shipped for free. At that price, I can get the CSS book and eBay Hacks for less than the cost of the CSS book at either Amazon or Overstock. Looks like a pretty good deal to me!
The other book I'll search for at Mpire is HTML, XHTML, and CSS by Elizabeth Castro. Amazon sells it for $19.79 (from $18.20 + shipping from sellers in the Amazon Marketplace), and according to Mpire, that's the best price going. I also saw that they also had results for the old 4th edition like mine, and it's selling for only $6.44 (incl. shipping) at Alibris.
The Mpire site looks great and is very easy to use, and definitely worth checking out if you're interested in finding bargains when you shop online.
Their big partners include eBay, Amazon.com, Yahoo, Overstock.com, and Shopping.com and others. So how does it work?
First, you type in the product you're looking for. For my example, I'll use a couple of the books I recommended in an earlier post.
First I type in keywords for the first book, CSS: The Definitive Guide. That link (yes, it's an affiliate link) takes you to Amazon.com, where the book is selling for $28.34 (and from $23.99 + shipping in the Amazon Marketplace).
Mpire returns 7 stores selling that book, with Amazon's price getting beaten by 2 cents at Overstock.com. But it's still well below Mpire's average store price for the book -- $30.14. The average auction price is just $9.50, though, so I click on the auction tab to see what's available.
I get two eBay results -- one listed at US$7.00 with a Buy It Now price of US$9.00, and the other from eBay UK listed at £31.67 (over US$60). The UK price is way too steep for me, but the US$7.00 looks pretty reasonable, although it's for the older, first edition of the book. The seller says he'll send it to Australia via Airmail for US$9.00, and for that price I can get a second book shipped for free. At that price, I can get the CSS book and eBay Hacks for less than the cost of the CSS book at either Amazon or Overstock. Looks like a pretty good deal to me!
The other book I'll search for at Mpire is HTML, XHTML, and CSS by Elizabeth Castro. Amazon sells it for $19.79 (from $18.20 + shipping from sellers in the Amazon Marketplace), and according to Mpire, that's the best price going. I also saw that they also had results for the old 4th edition like mine, and it's selling for only $6.44 (incl. shipping) at Alibris.
The Mpire site looks great and is very easy to use, and definitely worth checking out if you're interested in finding bargains when you shop online.
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