Excellent idea! When do you think you'll have it completed and how often are you going to update it? :lol3:
I look forward to the launch of your site, CompareRepson.comIndependent comparison sites are not unusual these days ;-)
Suggestion: What about a regularly updated pricelist of all trusted dealers ?
in tabular form
Submariner GMT Deep Sea ... Dealer 1 X $ X $ X $ Dealer 2 X $ X $ X $ Dealer 3 X $ X $ X $ Dealer 4 X $ X $ X $ ...
Suggestion: What about a regularly updated pricelist of all trusted dealers ?
in tabular form
Submariner GMT Deep Sea ... Dealer 1 X $ X $ X $ Dealer 2 X $ X $ X $ Dealer 3 X $ X $ X $ Dealer 4 X $ X $ X $ ...
WHO would you think is going to take on this "little" task?
Yes, I bet someone is simply dying to spend days coding a site dedicated to this task, with a well-designed front end and sophisticated back end, and then spend a great deal of their time monitoring it to ensure it stays up to date, updating it when TD site URLs change because the current one got shut down, etc.There is almost always someone who has time on their hands.
For those who dont know how it works ;-)
[h=2]Technology[/h] Price comparison sites can collect data directly from merchants. Retailers who want to list their products on the website then supply their own lists of products and prices, and these are matched against the original database. This is done by a mixture of information extraction, fuzzy logic and human labour.
[Means automatically]
Comparison sites can also collect data through a data feed file. Merchants provide information electronically in a set format. This data is then imported by the comparison website. Some third party businesses are providing consolidation of data feeds so that comparison sites do not have to import from many different merchants. Affiliate networks aggregate data feeds from many merchants and provide them to the price comparison sites. Many of the popular shopping websites provide direct affiliation to the customer who wants to become affiliate partner. They provide their own API to the affiliate partner to show their products with specifications to the affiliate partner's website. This enables price comparison sites to monetize the products contained in the feeds by earning commissions on click through traffic. Other price comparison sites have deals with merchants and aggregate feeds using their own technology.
Info from Wikipedia
Yes, I bet someone is simply dying to spend days coding a site dedicated to this task, with a well-designed front end and sophisticated back end, and then spend a great deal of their time monitoring it to ensure it stays up to date, updating it when TD site URLs change because the current one got shut down, etc.
And all done to save any of us from having to spend about15 minutes checking the half a dozen active TD sites for a watch, and finding out that all the TDs sell the same model/version at the same price.