
I have this problem of tracking prices on various products for months and months before actually pulling the gun on the purchase. Yes, this doesn't seem very weird for a techno-nerd like myself, however I always try to find the best price possible. So when I heard about this new website called PriceFad I knew it was right up my alley.
According to the website ...
We wanted to give you the best historical view before pulling the trigger - be that researching on a broad category, say 46in LCD TVs or a specific product, say: TomTom ONE XL GPS, or even to compare two alternative products, say Samsung 19in LCD vs. Viewsonic 19in LCD. The PriceFad allows you, the consumer, to see historical market direction and understand whether today's deal is really a deal. If you are patient enough, you can also register for a price drop alert so you won't be missing anything.
I surfed around the website for a little bit this afternoon and am pretty impressed with the website. Going by my searches it looks as if the website "crawls" various deal websites such as FatWallet.com for keywords and then creates the "data" from the posts it finds. The only downside I could see from this is if its automated in its data collecting, then the data might be skewed by people who mis-type or fake deals on various shopping retailers. I didn't test this out as I don't want to get flamed/banned from any of these deal forums, so hopefully the people over at PriceFad worked something into their algorithm to account for these types of posts.
But all in all, PriceFab is a very solid website for those who addicted to price-tracking and I defintely recommend checking it out when making your next purchase.
Source: Mashable
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