you might want to check out www.pricecheckermy.com , I personally find it useful.

It is more on the retail side where you can actually compare prices of Guardian, Watson & caring.

In professional development, outer look of a person matters a lot. The thing which one should have to care is his appearance. An individual should take care of his personality.

In affiliate marketing, price comparison is one of the best types to affiliate. Ii suggest you to use affiliate programs and generate feeds from different good retailers and merchants' websites using affiliate program tools like Affiliate Window to show them on your website. On these networks you will find some modules and helps how to show products from different retailers' websites. You won't need to upload anything on your own in this case. When users compare prices online on your website and click on Buy Now they will be redirected to the retailers and you will get some commissions in return...

HI,

is shopariso still living? Interesting to read this old discussion here.

We just started our comparison site on the malaysian market www.oizoioi.com.my
and compare already more then 100000 products just for malaysia :) We are excited to be here on the market and hope that ecommerce is getting bigger and bigger here

Cheers Nam

Hey,

well written post!

But you should check out www.pricepanda.com, we would be happy to provide you with background information on our company and give you an exclusive insight into our business and how we aim to be and stay the number one price comparison website in Malaysia.

Cheers,

Max

hi there...give me your phone number or you can contact me on my email. I'm interesting to chat with you for real. I'm going to KL on 20/12/10 monday. I wish we could meet up for more information. Take your chance.

I search for "Price Comparison Malaysia" and this page comes up. Hmph. I guess there still no real service of this kind in Malaysia.
http://bestpricemalaysia.com was already mentioned by someone else, but it looks like they have not been updated in months.

In a related matter, I just started my own price tracker/price comparison project. You can access it at these urls:
http://www.kvpricetracker.info or http://www.kvpricetracker.com

The site is very basic and currently just runs off Blogspot, but it works.

I have scripts that automatically downloads price lists from Digital Mall, HWZ, vendors' websites, and sometimes from Low Yat. Another set of scripts extracts price info and generates the comparison tables. This is a passive tracker; I do not solicit prices directly from the vendors.

For now, I am updating prices only once or twice a day. Anyway, most vendors update their web price lists only once a day (if at all).

So far I am only tracking processor (CPU) prices. Will probably start tracking graphics cards soon, around the end of this month. A friend has asked me to track handphone prices, but that's a lot of work and would have to come later.

Pls drop by if you have the time. Comments and suggestions are appreciated. The site is very much a work in progress. Yes, I know my web design sucks ;)

nice post. one of the leading site in price comparison services is http://prices.greatcoupons-online.com/ compare prices online and save more money

Hi,
the price/product aggregator sites moved out and pulls up our e-business volume a few years ago (in Hungary) from the dark ages. Without it I don't think we could make a real e-shopping culture. It's a perfect way for shop owners to compare the prices and sell their products on high traffic websites who has perfect SEO and spend much more for advertising and partnership with large portals. And a perfect business for aggregator websites who can make profit not just from 3rd party advertising (because of high traffic), but from shop owners also by listing fee, pay-per-click system and sometimes by affiliate (but it's unusual now).
The power of this market best demonstration that in our IAB ADEX this kind of spending nowadays is a new item: "listing". It was 16% of the whole spending in 2008.

Some example:
olcsobbat.hu
arukereso.hu
depo.hu
argep.hu
shopmania.hu

Based on your above review on shopparadiso.com, we would like to offer some clarification.

@MalaysiaCrunch:-The service does not appear to be matured, or in other words, amateur in the sense of web usability
@ShopParadiso:- Yes. There are couple of issues with our site in terms of usability. They are 1. Product Features and ability to compare products not provided 2. Not enough Images and 3. The site is Cluttered. Given below is an explanation for each of the identified issues.

1. Search engines from matured markets like US, Europe etc provide all these services. But an important point is when the first shopping engines started appearing (e.g. pricegrabber.com and many such sites) in the late 90s, they were dependent on spidering the websites directly and were only providing price comparison features. They all had usability issues stated above. Once market started to mature i.e. investment and users started to flow in, these sites were able to provide more services like product feature comparison etc.

Our market is pretty much like the late 90s in US (this does not mean we will experience similar growth in the next ten years). First we wanted to concentrate on price comparison, as there are lots of pure vertical sites like GSM Arena available, where users normally head for product study, product feature comparison etc. This is the reason behind, we not starting with the ability to compare product features etc. Another issue is it is a huge maintenance task. But surely we will address these issues in the near future.

But at this point we request you not to compare with sites that cater to mature markets i.e. Shopping.com, Shopzilla.com, PriceGrabber.com etc. You might ask, if I am free to compare social networking sites from Malaysia and US, then why should not I compare shopping search engines. This is a valid question and our request might seem to be an unreasonable one. But the difference is content. Content is generated by visitors for Web 2.0 sites. But on the other hand, shopping search engines will have to generate their own content i..e content apart from spidered data. It is a huge task creating and maintaining product information. Because one manufacturer would provide only certain features and another manufacturer certain other features. It is very tough to maintain product features that is normalized across manufacturers. All these requires dedicated resources. We just started and are working towards providing other features.

Note: Thanks for highlighting this issue.

2. Except for a handful of categories, we depend on spidered merchants for product images. But most merchants do not provide access to images directory or make it complicated for search engine to spider their site/images. In such cases we will not be able to do much. There is also copyright issues with images and we want stay away from these problems. But as rightly pointed, we should provide more images, where possible.

3. The site has become cluttered in the past 2-3 months as we have been adding additional services. We would like to step back and concentrate on shopping engine. We are reworking the design.

@MalaysiaCrunch:- more importantly the understanding of local market is (lacking)
@ShopParadiso:- We assume you are pointing to the fact that certain established sites, like Acmamall, are not being spidered. We have made a conscious decision to stay away from sites that deal exclusively in Gifts, Apparels, Books etc. We concentrate only on Electronics, Computers, Big/Small Appliances etc. Whatever little we have covered under gifts, apparels etc is because a few sites that we scrape data for electronics and appliances, also deal in gifts, apparels etc.

Thanks,
ShopParadiso Team