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PriceGrabber.com
Below we have outlined how PriceGrabber works. We hope you find this PriceGrabber information useful. If you have any additional information regarding PriceGrabber that you would like us to review or include please contact us. PriceGrabber is currently not affiliated with us and the comments are strictly those of our editors.
PriceGrabber like all CSE's Comparison Shopping Engines, earn their revenue by displaying merchants prices and getting consumers like me and you to click on these displayed ads. The business model for PriceGrabber and all other CSE's is to give the consumer the best experience on their site so that the consumer will consistently come back to compare every product he/she will buy in the future. PriceGrabber has many competitors that offer a similar comparison service. Each will be reviewed individually and a summary will be compiled.
Why should I use PriceGrabber or any other CSE? You just made a decision to purchase a Panasonic TH 42-PX-604 Plasma HDTV and now it boils down to "who can deliver the best price". Choice 1 - go to 40 individual web sites and look up the prices and take notes as you accumulate each price plus the shipping charges and don't forget tax if the vendor is located in your state. The time to do this your entire weekend! Now lets take a look at PriceGrabber!
The home page PriceGrabber.com is arranged in
alphabetical order. Each main category has subcategories listed below. We will
go to the consumer Electronics category and click on TV's
PriceGrabber Comparison vs.
advertising?
On this very next page take note of seven
subcategories within TV's.
Plasma & LCD Televisions
Projection TV's
TV/VCR/DVD Combo
Television Tube
TV Accessories and Mounts
Remote Control
Entertainment Units
Immediately below is a display from a
PriceGrabber Featured Merchant - OneCall. Featured Merchant is the terminology
used by PriceGrabber to describe advertiser that is paying a premium to be
displayed. PriceGrabber hopes that you will click on one of the featured TV's
being displayed by OneCall and purchase directly from them. These TV's are
either OneCall's hottest offers or the most sought after currently by
consumers. Let us click one level further into the Plasma and LCD Televisions.
On the left hand side you can further drill
down by "Manufacturer Name". In the center you can find the most popular TV's.
Once again The Westinghouse is classified as a "Featured Product" indicating
that Westinghouse may be sponsoring (paying for that phrase) that position.
Slide over to the right hand side below the price and PriceGrabber lists the
number of different stores that are displaying a price for this TV. Lets click
on the Panasonic TV.
You finally arrive at the PriceGrabber
Panasonic product page and you want to make the purchase.
Is PriceGrabber showing you the absolute
lowest price?
Are all vendors reputable?
Will PriceGrabber speak to the vendor on my
behalf and even try to get me a refund if I am not satisfied?
BuyDig.com, Beach Camera, Best Buy and Circuit
City are all FEATURED MERCHANTS. Featured Merchants means that these merchants
paid more than all the others to get top listing and ultimately more business
from consumers looking for this TV.
After the featured listings is Shop Sunshine
which is listed at the best price $1,270 for my zip code (I entered 90036). The
current zip code can be found above the heading called Seller Rating.
Lets take a look at the balance of merchants
listed for this TV.
If PriceGrabber.com was meant to help the
shopper find the lowest price, why aren't the prices vendors sorted by price?
Reputable merchants like Crutchfield and B&H
are listed low down. You can sort merchant by BOTTOMLINEPRICE. There is
another indicator that you can use to learn about vendors and that's REVIEWS.
You can read reviews and learn quite a lot from previous consumer experiences.
I have some doubt to the validity of all posted reviews.
BUYDIG has 20,314 reviews and Circuit City
has only 82 reviews? Sounds right? NOT to me.
The first two listing on
PriceGrabber belong to the same company. Is this ethical?
BeachCamera Mailing Address: 
You decided to click on "Your Best Price" from
Shop Sunshine.com
You just left PriceGrabber.com and you are now
on the ShopSunshine.com website.
Who is ShopSunshine.com?
On display is an artist rendition of their
store. Why can't they shop their actual store? Do they have a store?
Click on Contact us and...
They are only open 11-5 Monday through
Thursday. They discourage you from calling in due to HIGH VOLUME of calls?
Before you make that purchase always look at
the return police. Just in case.
Basically anything you buy is yours forever.
The vague outline suggests minimum 15% fee for returns and you have to contact
the manufacturer within 14 days to confirm that the product is defective.
Thank you PriceGrabber for presenting all this
data. What use is it if the consumer has a bad experience from any of these
vendors? I certainly wouldn't go back to PriceGrabber if this happened to me.
At the end of the day did PriceGrabber offer me
the absolute lowest price?
In this case the answer may be YES. In many
other cases absolutely NOT. Are you shocked! PriceGrabber.com charges vendors
for some categories over $1.00 each time a consumer clicks. Imagine that you
click on 10 stores each time you visit PriceGrabber.com before making a
purchase. 10 merchants will each be charged $1.00 for your clicks. These costs
prohibit some stores from competing in this environment. Those merchants have
lower prices, however, you need to go directly to their website.
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