February 8, 2012

Compare Online Prices

For many of us shopping on the Internet is all about looking for a bargain but one of the biggest problems is finding which sites really do offer the right deal. WhatsGoodOnTheWeb was recently approached by astuteshopping.com, an online shopping comparison site, to see if we would do a review of their site.

Having taken a bit of time looking at the site we thought it was good enough to include a website review of it. It’s not the prettiest of sites, but the comparison function works very well and allows you to search for the product you want, it then lists the product and tells you which supplier it can be purchased from. They obviously generate an income from anyone who clicks on the links but they are quite selective who they put on the site and as they say “we don’t list any Tom, Dick or Harry” which does give us quite a bit of confidence in what they do.

To test the search engine on astuteshopping we searched for a “Dualit Kettle” – the results came back very quickly and we were able to refine our search based on price, popularity etc or select from the large list of stockists displayed. We then clicked on the ones we were most interested in and then review those selections on one page.

We were also able to search on each of the individual companies that www.astuteshopping.com  works with and in addition the site has a page for each company that tells you if there are any offers or discounts that may be available. This is a very useful function and can give you some quite considerable discounts. Unfortunately for our search there were none.

We’ve given www.astuteshopping.com  a thumbs up as we like the search engine that allows you to compare prices and it is a well structured site. We’d like to see the site developed a little bit more to make it look nicer (Yes we know that WhatsGoodOnTheWeb needs work to !!!) but all in all a very efficient and useful site.