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...bizrate.com promptly found everything I wanted--from a bottle of Veuve Clicquot to the latest Palm computer. Because Bizrate's rankings for each site are culled from thousands of consumer surveys, rather than the handful per merchant found on many of the other bots (or none at all, at PriceScan and SmartShop), Bizrate also made me feel the safest about shopping online. The on-time delivery rankings are especially handy for last-minute shoppers. About the only thing missing were shipping charges--features my second favorite sites, dealtime.com and mysimon.com usually provided. (The ratings on those sites, however, weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Tis the Season to Be Thrifty | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...Pricescan is less well known but declares that it is totally unbiased. It will not accept payment from merchants to place a product higher on the list. Roboshopper not only lists prices but also mentions the merchant's inventory. Nextag has a novel feature: if you don't like the merchant's price, you can negotiate a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Shopping: Can You Really Trust Those Bots? | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

Discount sites are centralized filters to multiple sources of goods. They generally have contracts with re-seller clients to put products on their site. Some examples include www.pricewatch.com and www.pricescan.com. I purchased my 3Com PalmPilot Professional at a 30 percent discount via Pricescan...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The World Wide What? | 10/27/1998 | See Source »

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