Information Madness

As online shopping and social shopping is catching up in India, its necessary to understand that what you are buying is actually worth the price. Five years back there were only couple of online shopping sites in India e.g. Indiatimes, rediff, sify etc. But now we have plenty of other players offering online shopping features in India.

So now when you buy something online, you first should compare the prices/product and then take your decision. I had written about couple of Compare the product before you shop before such as CompareIndia and TolMol.com. Since then, there are few more players in the market. So here is a comprehensive list for shopping comarison sites. 

1. CompareIndia.com - This is one of the most famous shopping comparison site for India. The site has a backing of Network 18 group which can be seen by the site design and the professional look and feel. You can compare products from electronics, kitchen appliances to office equipments etc. The site also gives you an option to locate a dealer in your city for a particular product. It has tag based searches, price drop section where you can see what product prices dropped. You can setup an alert for a particular product's price drop as well. This site can be a first choice for lcd tv compare india. 

2. ShopMania.in - This is one of the biggest online shopping comparison sites network. It covers almost 16 countries including India. I think Shopmania.in covers the most online stores for the price comparison in India. It includes sites such as GadgetsGuru, CafeGadgets, Univercell and many more to give the widest range of prices for the products. One good thing about ShopMania is that it allows any merchant to create its own online store for free. 

3. TolMol.com - The site started as a shopping comparison but looks like has diverted its focus to job search as well. It is a startup by Avake Technology, a california based company which was founded by Ramna Sharma and Anuj Kanish. The site has pretty standard features for the comparison, ratings, comments etc. It also carries tag based searches and has categories such as electronics, books, gifts, autos etc. for your online comparison. 

4. Bechna.com - This is an online price comparison site mostly compares products from Rediff shopping and Indiatimes shopping. Either the product is available only on Rediff or only on Indiatimes shopping. There are only few products where you can compare the prices. Bechna.com also has its classifieds section where you can list your products/services or find a product/services. 

5. PricesBolo.com - This is a bangalore online shopping comparison site. This site covers bangalore, Chennai and Madurai. I like this site. It has nice user interface. You first select the city then category/product. It gives you an option to choose the price range that you are looking for and it will list all the available products from different vendors. Pricesbolo.com is a product of Emmosys Technologies Pvt. Ltd. PricesBolo has an additional advantage for merchants as merchants can list their product and prices, view consumer interests, read reviews and view hot selling brands/products for their marketing strategies. PricesBolo.com uses latest web technologies like AJAX but it lacks in design. I wasn't impressed with the design of the site. I think they can do better with it. 

6. NaapTol.com - NaapTol.com is the latest entrant in Indian online shopping comparison sites. Site gives you price comparison between different stores (online and offline) and it also gives you an option to compare the products like CompareIndia.com. Taking Offline stores into consideration is a good concept as Indian's mostly buy stuff from a physical location rather than online. PricesBolo.com also has offline store prices listed in their comparison.

7. OxyShopping.com -  This is another shopping comparison site for India but when I search for it in Google, I got this warning message saying that "This site may harm your computer". So looks like there is something going on with OxyShopping.com. I didn't take chance to visit the site so I can't write much about this site.

These are the sites that I know of as of now. If you know any other that I might have missed, please drop me a comment and will include it.

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