Comments on: Shopping Engines in the Dark Ages http://comparisonengines.com/2007/07/04/shopping-engines-in-the-dark-ages/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: LaptopBuyer http://comparisonengines.com/2007/07/04/shopping-engines-in-the-dark-ages/#comment-988 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:43:45 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=730#comment-988 I am with you on this one! I used to be a retailer (internetcamerasdirect.co.uk and Nomatica.com) and I used to loath the way price comparison engines treated merchants. First, while they were growing, CPA was fine, then overnight – CPC – take it or leave it. When I submitted our feeds on Friday night and we went out of stock on Saturday morning we were still paying for useless leads all weekend until a new feed could be taken on Monday.
This annoyed me sufficiently to set up http://www.laptopbuyer.co.uk, the differences are:

SKU level identification of product
Data refreshed every 10 minutes (stock and price)
We show RealPrice (price plus shipping for next working day delivery plus any other surcharges such as credit cards)
Access to log files for merchants
Click fraud prevention by ignoring traffic from known IPs of merchants and of around 900 other user agents – sometimes this is up to 90% of our traffic – so the 20% that Google bandies about is a little light in our experience
Willing to work on a CPA, CPC or hybrid CPC/CPA deal

Hopefully we’ll get to the stage where merchants and users alike see the benefits of what we’re doing!

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