Price Comparison sites don't Compare Prices

Catmeister

Actually OP is dead right. Recently looking for hotels I used travel supermarket. When I followed links to the sites, they gave me a higher price than if I went to the sites direct. Same with trip advisor and others. Best thing to do is find best price with a comparison site, then go to the site direct. As for not listing every price, this is to be expected, but I agree it is very annoying that kelkoo no longer lists in order of price - I assume their order has more to do with which companies they get more money from :-(

JasonLVC

Cashback sites Greasypalm and mycashback also appear to charge much more than if you go direct to the suppliers website. So yes, you get £10 cashback, but you pay £20 more by going through their link.

Never used these sites since discovering this little wheeze. Quidco, to my knowledge do not add anything.

Astaroth

I would argue that aggregator sites are different (likes of travel supermarket etc) but would like to see any example of a normal ecommerce goods site like Amazon or Currys etc that charges more when someone has gone through an affiliate link as I have never seen this happen

CyBerman

Am I missing something here? There do seem to be some price comparison web-sites out there that actually make do with the commision they must get for referrals.

One example is find-dvd (and its sister sites) who seem to actually come up with a broad list of sellers, both companies you have heard of and those you haven't, and seems to be honest in the prices it quotes.