Comments on: Catching up with Sortprice – Flat Rates + Facebook App

By: David Leach

David Leach — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:50:37 +0000

Hi, I have been reading your responces and for me its far less money that Pricegrabber that was a 600.00 day. Sortprices may sound expensive but what I paid in a day equals at min 3 months.

I will keep you all posted

By: Jacob Maslow

Jacob Maslow — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:24:12 +0000

SORT Price is the worst performing engine I have ever dealt with.

Used them several years ago at an appliance company. They sent barely any traffic. Worked out to several dollars per click.

They have learned their lesson regarding the complaints. They now only deal with annual commitments.

At my new place, the company signed up before I actually started.

Will probably do a charge back. Their conversion rate and other claims are all lies.

By: D.H.

D.H. — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:09:19 +0000

We signed on with SortPrice but never saw more than 3 referrals each month. After 3 months, we were going to cancel until our account rep said he’d bump our program up to the next level, give us a free month and the remaining 3 months would be at the same price we were paying. They were also going to add a tracking code to the URLs on SortPrice. Maybe our business just wasn’t a good fit but 3 referrals for $199 is quite steep. We won’t be renewing after this 3 month period is over.

By: Matt Nelson

Matt Nelson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:20:06 +0000

I have used Sortprice for the last 2 years and I’m up for renewal this month. I did get a huge break in pricing for my first campaign, but after my results turned out to be good, I have been paying full price for the last 18 months. Some products would not sell on any engine, but I can only speak for my self, and Sortprice.com has generated the highest ROI I have ever seen in 9 yrs. of business.

By: Live Ambitions

Live Ambitions — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:39:33 +0000

I have been solicited by them as well. I’m a little skeptical about their ability to send any significant amount of traffic.

I mean I’ve tried all the major shopping engines such as Pricegrabber and Shopping.com, but even they couldn’t deliver much traffic. So, logically speaking, you can expect Sortprice to send even less traffic.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:44:37 +0000

To Art and whoever else has signed up with Sortprice.com.

I have been solicited the last 3 weeks by a rep from Sortprice.com. They are currently offering me the most expensive package for the lowest package price. So for $450.00 (since i have 1000 products and less), I will be bumped up to their super enhanced package. Sounds like a great deal, but I’m weary of the number of visitors they get. I’ve been checking out compete.com and quantcast.com to get a read on how much traffic they might be getting.

The rep claims they get over 5 million unique visitors a month. this isn’t even close to what compete and quantcast register.

With that being said, I want to hear from anyone who has registered with sortprice and give me your feedback. Yes/No?

If not, then what comparison shopping engine do you recommend using for the best ROI?

By: Art

Art — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:10:38 +0000

I used this blog as a list of the CSE’s to sign up for and for the most part they are working well, some extremely well! However, Sortprice is dismal. I’ve been up for 2 weeks and only gotten 20 visits…if I extrapolate that out (and using the $200 month fee) that works out to a CPC of about $5.00!! And I got one $55 sale. When I spoke to them I got the usual pap about how they usually see new companies volume go up over time. But even Adwords, where I get minimal sales, is at about .40 average CPC…I would need to get 500 visits from sortprice for that CPC. As a point of reference, the first month with Shopzilla we got 3,000+ visits and lots of revenue. These guys made me commit to 3 months minimum…is there any way out if this continues to be this bad?

By: Tafuma Shopping

Tafuma Shopping — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:29:49 +0000

You are right Richardson. Have you tried search engines who run a CPA model as opposed to CPC. I don’t know whcih ones to suggest for your market but in the UK we’ve got a handful of such Shopping engines.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:49:15 +0000

I actually think the flat rate price is genius. With click fraud, what real way do you have to truly see execution on a shopper. Advertising on the net is evolving along with so many other things. CPM makes more sense than CPC, but the Flat rate seems a perfect fit for the vendor looking to control costs and a win for the engine to keep the cost low to attract a keep as many vendors as possible. A fixed rate over CPC in this economy just makes more sense.

By: Richardson

Richardson — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:39:29 +0000

I have been solicited by Sortprice.com for about 2 years. They keep telling me to sign up because they have fixed pricing. Fixed pricing is great if the traffic was there. I doubt they can get me 600 clicks for the $200 a month they asked for.