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| Thread ID: 97617 | 2009-02-22 00:45:00 | How does PriceSpy aggregate the prices? | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 750142 | 2009-02-22 00:45:00 | Dear all, Does it send out spiders to all the computer parts websites and aggregate the product names and prices? How would it be able to sort out the product names into the categories that they should belong to? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 750143 | 2009-02-22 01:06:00 | I would have thought it was a trade secret? | Deane F (8204) | ||
| 750144 | 2009-02-22 01:34:00 | A bot trawls the sites,about 4 times a day. The man in charge of pricespy tells the store owners how to list their gear so it gets collected properly. I offered to instead have a database with all the stock listed that his bot could access but he wasn't keen on that idea, Assumidly a less honest person could have lower prices in the database then what was displayed on the website. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 750145 | 2009-02-22 03:50:00 | As you may have noticed, not all dealers use PriceSpy. I would say a dealer would have to pay to be on PriceSpy. They would send the info to PriceSpy and then they would enter it in there database, or something along those lines. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 750146 | 2009-02-22 04:20:00 | I would say a dealer would have to pay to be on PriceSpy. Nope, it's free. You only have to pay to be featured. www.pricespy.co.nz |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 750147 | 2009-02-22 06:23:00 | Hmmmm okay. Cheers for the replies :) | Renmoo (66) | ||
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