Online Comparison Shopping… By Phone
It’s just a mobile phone day around these parts-
I am a comparative price shopper. I will spend a day pricing a single item at 3 or 4 different stores, return to the second store, you know, the one that had the cheaper price, and then decide to wait until I check how much the item is selling for on the internet when I get home later.
Apparently this type of behavior can drive some people crazy, especially when they have been walking with me all day and at the end of the day I end up making the purchase online, or worse, returning the next day to make the purchase.
Well, now there is an easier answer. Frucall is a service that allows you to call in, enter a barcode and it will tell you the price of the item you are looking for as pulled from major websites. Frucall also saves your search information so when you get home you can sign on and purchase the item.
Looks pretty interesting so, log on now and sign up (it’s free). Worth having around if you find yourself yearning for the ease and pricing of Amazon while you are out shopping.
19. July 2007 at :
Have you tried this out? I’m cautious to blindly giving my information / CC info, and caller ID info to some sites. Just curious what your experiences have been.
26. December 2007 at :
Hi I am not very sure about the effectiveness of this service because the very human nature is to know more about an item before buying it. I tried this service a while ago by entering the upc codes for the items lying around on my work table none of them matched the database of frucall.
Phones have their limitations as far as comparison shopping is concerned, I prefer instead websites like PriceGrabber.Com, PriceAlerter.com , jellyfish, fatwallet instead.
24. January 2008 at :
What a great service I did a search for such a service in the UK alas … none. But I see AOL and Yahoo are offering similar services so I guess it will come over the pond eventually.