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Permalink Reply by Ashish Bansal on October 8, 2012 at 5:37am

It's a good effort. But I personally didn't like the results returned by your price search engine... It's not different.. I understand how price comparison works as few months back I was working on the same concept but initially in a blog format..the major problem with this price comparison is discounts, coupons isn't included as part of it to show the real price... If u check http://sabaecheapest.blogspot.com..I dropped the idea to continue it further because personally as a user I have tried many ecommerce sites by actually buying from them..later on after getting bad products, late deliveries, pathetic customer care.. Only one of them I started trusting flipkart even if cost is more..my personal thought was ecommerce has not matured much to actually compare their prices..my two paisa :)

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Permalink Reply by Gaurav Dahake on October 10, 2012 at 4:11pm

Ashish we are working on figuring out the solution for the same. The blog link you gave doesn't work. There are many cases for which people trust different brands like shoppersstop, myntra, jabong, infibeam etc, So personally I feel the e commerce is pretty ripe and even if it is not we would be the first players and the leaders when it becomes ripe :D 

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Permalink Reply by Ashish Bansal on October 10, 2012 at 8:11pm

Yes, Its good to be the first one and no doubt about it. Its not only Flipkart, there are few other good players too surely but overall the e-commerce market with really good players is still in single digits.  Actually, the point I was trying to make is confidence of the first time e-commerce customers. If he/she gets a raw or bad deal (ex Timtara.com) in this very first purchase in e-commerce world by referring the cheapest price from your website, it's a bad karma. It will scare him to do his next purchase from some random website and stick to some known or reliable e-commerce website. Generally, products on these websites comes with a premium.

Personally if I don't believe in anything its difficult for me to convince someone else to do it. So, when I was comparing prices on blog manually and in parallel developed a screen scrapper. I felt even if the price is low, their service is not great through my first hand experience of actually buying stuff from them. The price comparison/cheapest price really has great potential but it should have good e-commerce websites to support it. I misspelled the blog address, it was http://sabsecheapest.blogspot.com. Its very basic thing nothing special but it account for all the discount coupons and rebates at one place, not updated since the start of this year.

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