Please help MSE test new tool: The Megashopbot (rebooted!)

Paws

Works ok for books, but a bit clunky and I find the interface confusing.

It is very useful however so thankyou!

ifonlyitwaseasier

ie7, win xp
searched books and DVD's got results both times no probs,

nice bot!

victory

Worked fine for me but when I put in a dvd I know that is £2.99 on amazon it came up with prices of £29.99:eek: perfume was fine and books also:D

LameWolf

Windows XP, Firefox 3.5.2
Searched for CD "Relics" by Pink Floyd and PS1 Game "Lemmings", both found with no problems.

soappie

If you put simply a % sign in the book or title field with 123price check selected you get this:

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.9 Server at https://www.123pricecheck.com Port 80

soappie

I'm going to be really, really picky!



Typo highlighted!



Q. Why doesn't MSB just list the best price?
A. This tool is designed to pick the best shopbot results for you - but shopbots aren't perfect sometimes they will order by 'popularity' (which can equate to commerciality) or use advertising in their results. MoneySavingExpert (who's tool the shopbot is) is ad free always about ensuring you get the best deal, and we wouldn't want you to think any errors or ads are ours - so we prefer to show you the shopbots results withing their own site so you can make your own decision. Plus as shopbots often list a multitude of products when you search them, it is a nightmare to pull the data out of there and produce it.





this one doesn't make an awful lot of sense@


Q. Can I get these prices on the high street?
A. Many of the retailers listed are 'bricks and clicks' in other words they're websites of high street stores, and well their prices aren't always identical they're often similar. Also some high-street retailers will price-match internet prices if pushed and some of the retailera. So print off your comparison result and take it into the shop. See if they'll match the price (and, if you can, keep your thumb over the delivery cost...)


There should be an apostrophe thus it's on the highlighted word


Q. How do I know these sites are safe?
A. We try to only list reputable shopbots, but all prices listed and product descriptions stem from the sites themselves. Then its to be hoped that the sites listed by the shopbots are reputable, and generally they do checks, but there are no guarantees. If you're unsure, always check a website's legitimacy before buying anything through it. Ensure the shopbot site lists a real, as well as virtual, address and check its identity on web-ranking site Alexa.com to clock a site's worldwide web ranking - anything in the top 100,000 suggests it's reasonably big; a good, though not foolproof, indication of legitimacy. And don't forget that if you buy something costing over £100 on a credit card, you get extra legal protection called 'Section 75'. So if the retailer goes bust, or there's a problem, the credit card company is equally liable so you can get your cash back from it (see the Section 75 guide for more)

soappie

Re the little green box of links at the bottom of the left hand side, clicking on the different links takes me to exactly the same place. Is it supposed to?

Also, very irritatingly, if I click on one of them then click the back button, I'm taken to the bottom of the page I go back to. I'm running Firefox 3.0.15 on MS Vista

tattoed_bum

worked for me but the scroll to the side bit is a bit annoying

MrsBartolozzi

Works fine in principle, but the search was, for me, a bit useless - all the good prices they came up with were out of stock!
Is there any way to tick an "in stock only" option?

Former_MSE_Dan

Thanks soappie, both of those are being sorted.

And thanks all for the feedback so far