Green shopping that saves money

Website Reviews | editor | August 29, 2008 2:10 pm

Kelkoo Environmental Room

Kelkoo is a well known price comparison web site and in fact we used it only the other morning to find a new coffee machine for the office. The best thing about the site is saving you the time so you don’t go to every web site on the net just one.

Launched on Wednesday (27 August) Kelkoo have now entered the green revolution with the launch of an environmental room (CLICK HERE TO OPEN SITE) – aimed at helping you save money by looking for green products the page has an energy calculator and lists a series of products that are energy efficient (green) and save money.

On the downside we did a very simple search “light bulbs” in the main section of the site and were disappointed to see that energy efficient bulbs were not listed first. Obviously Kelkoo have received awards for their Green initiatives but it is not possible to put some obvious green recommendations first ??? After all they have popularity and cost as the listing options – why not green?

Overall we have always liked Kelkoo – yes they get a payment if you follow the links but just think of the time you can save – no more surfing for hours and you can actually find some pretty good bargains.

Three stars for Kelkoo on this one – the environmental room is a good idea and we’d love it to be an option on the main site search. Just maybe someone will take notice and introduce this in the future.

KELKOO PRESS RELEASE
LONDON, August 28th 2008 – kelkoo.co.uk, the UK’s leading shopping comparison website (Hitwise UK), has created a handy guide to help savvy shoppers save money and reduce their carbon footprint in five easy steps.
Kelkoo’s ‘green accumulator’ shows how you can start with a small initial outlay on energy-saving light bulbs, which will then provide you with the funds to purchase a water butt, bicycles, insulation and even A+ appliances. These savings are quickly multiplied on the ‘green accumulator’ which allows you to progressively invest in more cost efficient ‘green’ appliances.
At a time when many people are feeling the pinch, green purchases may not seem a priority. However, shoppers needn’t sacrifice their ethics to satisfy their home economics. Kelkoo’s ‘green accumulator’ demonstrates that when times are tight, shoppers need to ensure that every purchase counts and these products more than pay for themselves, helping to save you a total of nearly £1,000 once complete for an initial investment of £118.80 on energy saving light bulbs.
In addition to following the five steps to becoming ‘eco-nomical’, provisional results from research at Heriot-Watt University being undertaken as part of a Green Logistics project suggests that shopping online is often better for the environment than making a conventional shopping trip.
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