Did you ever wonder if you were getting the best price for something you buy online? There are a number of tools that will help answer that question, and even watch the Internet for a better deal. Price Protectr is one of those tools, and it’s really easy to use.
Once you find what you want to buy on the Internet, cut and paste the url of product information page (the page where you can add the product to your shopping card) into Price Protectr, and it will monitor the Internet for a better deal. Give Price Protectr your email, and it will send you a note when it finds the product at a better price. It can also track the price on items you’ve already bought, and if the price goes down, you may be able to get some money back if the store you bought from has a 30-day price guarantee. Here’s a screen shot of the entry form:
And to make using this tool really easy, Price Protectr offers a Firefox toolbar that enables you to ‘cut and paste’ the product url into Price protectr with the click of a button. And here’s a short video showing how to use Price Protectr:
Now to take your mind off shopping, here are some great personal finance articles and carnivals from the past week:
Personal Finance Articles
- OK, I’m Frugal – Now What? (@Domestic Cents)
- 10 Tips From Tim Ferriss, Guy Kawazaki and Keith Ferazzi on Lifeline Relationships and Mentoring (@Money Energy)
- 4 Quick Money “Fixes” That Will Put You In The Poor House – Amateur Asset Allocator (@Amateur Asset Allocator)
- Quicken offers deal for jilted Microsoft Money users: Consumer Reports Money & Shopping Blog (@Consumer Reports)
- Credit Cards That Don’t Require Swiping (@Alpha Consumer)
- An Investor’s Manifesto: 20 Guiding Principles for Investment Success (@Get Rich Slowly)
- Finding an Investment Property with InvestorLoft and PropScout (@My Money Blog)
- 107 Things That Make Good Financial Cents (@Good Financial Cents)
- Commodities – How Natural Resources Affect a Country’s Economics (@Mint)
- On Money and Psychology (@Bad Money Advice)
Personal Finance Carnivals
- Carnival of Debt Reduction – Learn Some Investing Basics (@ABCs of Investing)
- Carnival of Money Stories: Father’s Day Edition (@Not The Jet Set)
- Carnival of everything about personal finance – 1st Edition (@nil2million) Festival of Frugality #182 – Revenge of the Fallen Edition (@Stupid Cents)
- Working at Home Blog Carnival-143rd Edition (@Working at Home on the Internet)
- Carnival of Pecuniary Delights No. 12: Catch a Wave Edition (@Pecuniarities)
- LivingAlmostLarge » 209th Carnival of Personal Finance (@Living Almost Large)
- Money Hacks Carnival #69 – The Dollar Bill Edition (@Own the Dollar)
- Carnival of Family Life — The Cathy Thorne Cartoon Edition (@The Expanding Life)
- Carnival Of Twenty Something Finances: Numbers Edition (@How I Save Money)
- Festival of Stocks #145 (@Fat Pitch Financials)
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Published or updated January 16, 2012.
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I didn’t know about Price Protectr. I’ll have to go check it out. Thanks for the link!
Thanks for sharing my article! You were busy with a lot of carnivals this week – wow.
You know better than waiting for a site to respond to you, you can go and do comparison shopping by yourself. After all such a site would take time to get back to you.
@Shopping Comparison: Not sure what you mean by your comment. I think you’re right about comparison shopping, but that’s not what they do. Seems to me Price Protectr saves me the time of re-checking each website as prices change. Otherwise I’d have to check each site of each item every day–that doesn’t sound like the way to go.