bit-tech.net | Find the lowest prices with bit-tech Shopping

ElThomsono 19th February 2007, 18:50

I've already used it to buy a 500Gb external drive

It was fun :)

will. 19th February 2007, 18:51

somebody broked the navigations!

at least your using unordered lists now :p

edit.. after a quick peruse of the shopping: ;)

This will come in handy when I get going on the big "I want to play crysis" update of 2007

Jamie 19th February 2007, 18:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by will.
somebody broked the navigations!

at least your using unordered lists now :p

We're slowing going to be rolling out our site upgrade to a layout using tables and nav using image maps. Stay tuned.

RTT 19th February 2007, 18:54

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Originally Posted by Jamie
We're slowing going to be rolling out our site upgrade to a layout using tables and nav using image maps. Stay tuned.

and marquees!

Boswell 19th February 2007, 18:54

Its very quick to load (i'm on 100mbit and imo its one of the fastest webpages/sites to load)!

DougEdey 19th February 2007, 18:55

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/28076600/Daewoo_L710TV_42LCD_TV/

I'll have one of them if it's 42"

rowin4kicks 19th February 2007, 18:56

wow nice addtion glad to see you are working hard!
keep it coming

RTT 19th February 2007, 19:03

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Originally Posted by Boswell
Its very quick to load (i'm on 100mbit and imo its one of the fastest webpages/sites to load)!

Good isn't it? Served directly from memory ;)

Bindibadgi 19th February 2007, 19:07

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Originally Posted by RTT
Good isn't it? Served directly from memory ;)

We plugged a tube into Rich's noggin.

z3rb 19th February 2007, 19:34

Even on my 56k line, it's uber fast at loading. Good job, guys!

Krikkit 19th February 2007, 19:41

When I saw it at first, I thought it might be a BiT shop, meaning the death of the FS forums. But a comparison site rawks. Nice one guys. :D

teamtd11 19th February 2007, 19:59

very nice, so many good things about it, the filters are easy to add and remove :D, and i love how it adds the delivery to the price aswell. very nice, i will be using this from now on ;)

Buzzons 19th February 2007, 20:39

did it break the menu in the forum ? it seems to appear in the middle of the screen

http://www.buzzons.co.uk/images/wtf_bittec.JPG

BioSniper 19th February 2007, 20:40

Problem: Navigate to Motherboards -> ASRock is shown twice each with different contents.

DougEdey 19th February 2007, 20:46

Buzzons: Ctrl+F5 and take off flashblock for Bit ;)

Hiren 19th February 2007, 20:47

When I first saw the link I assumed it was going to be a bit-tech shop with T-shirts, mousemats and other cool stuff. Oh well shopping comparison is always good.

The_Pope 19th February 2007, 21:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hiren
When I first saw the link I assumed it was going to be a bit-tech shop with T-shirts, mousemats and other cool stuff. Oh well shopping comparison is always good.

Don't give up hope for the Official bit-tech Merchandise - I swear we'll get to that one of these days! For now though, you can help keep bit-tech alive by using our Shopping Comparison service whenever you're hunting for hardware.

PLEASE NOTE - there *are* anti-click-fraud measures in place. It doesn't help us if you run around clicking stuff if you aren't actually going to buy anything. However, if you or your friends are looking to order online, use bit-tech.net Shopping to find a deal and we get a little love in return :D

ozstrike 19th February 2007, 21:10

Woo, finally a navigation button to fill that annoying gap to the left of the forums tab :)

MiT 19th February 2007, 21:15

[Borats voice] I like, hi five [/Borats Voice]

I agree with most of the comments. I thought it was another shop. But even better, its a comparsing site. Looks very unquie, and easy to use. Will be using it from now on, and will also recommend friends.

Question: How long did it take you guys to make it?

Also the best thing i like about it is, theres no stupid adds, or irrelvent mumbo jumbo. Information, quick, easy, and striaght to the point.

Keep up and hard work

Do bit-tech users get a discount once in a while? :D

Edit: Also how many sites do you search? is there a list on web site?

Buzzons 19th February 2007, 21:16

-- all sorted thankee --

why should i turn off flashblock though :p

The_Pope 19th February 2007, 21:26

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Do bit-tech users get a discount once in a while?

It doesn't work like that, since it isn't actually a store. We're not stocking / selling any of these products. We simply check loads of retailers and show you a list of who is cheapest. You make the choice and then place the order on the chosen retailer's website.

Quote:

Also how many sites do you search? is there a list on web site?

I don't have the actual number to hand but it's "loads" and we'll be adding more as the service grows. All the big guys should be covered. Here's an example - 19 resellers compared. OK, so not every product has that depth but we're working hard on it. Our listings should reflect the wider availability of any given product.

Quote:

why should i turn off flashblock though

Who wants to say it this time? Because keeping bit-tech alive, subscription free and clear of certain types of intrusive advertising (like IntelliTXT keywords) is reliant on the success of our regular banner ads. Flashblock costs us money - if everyone installed it, we'd go bust and close.

I would've thought someone with nearly 1,000 posts would appreciate that fact.

oasked 19th February 2007, 21:52

Wow, I like the way it includes delivery too. Clever stuff.

At first I thought this was a simple cash-in for advertising revenue, but it scans all of the sites I'd actually use anyway. Good job guys. :)

Duste 19th February 2007, 22:25

Any chance of an Australian section, also?

Krikkit 19th February 2007, 22:34

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Originally Posted by Duste
Any chance of an Australian section, also?

I wouldn't count on it, BiT's Australian readers probably don't even make up 0.1% of the readers, it sucks, but that's the way it is.

Burnout21 20th February 2007, 00:04

great idea to bring a shopping to bit-tech.

bubsterboo 20th February 2007, 00:21

I like it, but i don't like it how the forum button moved... Im fussy :)

monkeyville 20th February 2007, 00:36

Can i assume your going to be linking to this every time you do a review?

Will be useful to compare the rrp at time of review and current shopping price a few months down the line when i might consider it part of my price range

Firehed 20th February 2007, 00:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Pope
Don't give up hope for the Official bit-tech Merchandise - I swear we'll get to that one of these days! For now though, you can help keep bit-tech alive by using our Shopping Comparison service whenever you're hunting for hardware.

PLEASE NOTE - there *are* anti-click-fraud measures in place. It doesn't help us if you run around clicking stuff if you aren't actually going to buy anything. However, if you or your friends are looking to order online, use bit-tech.net Shopping to find a deal and we get a little love in return :D

You damn-well better! I need to expand my wardrobe beyond Thinkgeek tees and a TWIT hat.

Anyways, really awesome setup. I was psyched to see the thing for camera lenses. SO much easier to navigate than Amazon! Newegg service while supporting Bit - what's not to love?

Oh, unrelated question regarding the navigation (as someone mentioned the forum button moving) - any chance of getting one of those little breadcrumb trails at the bottom of the page too (like is at the box at the top of the forums)? I hate having to scroll up through twenty posts to get back to the main index of the forums.

Buzzons 20th February 2007, 01:07

Pope but i never click on them anyway ever.

and i enabled it straight away after that, and i didnt think it would cost you money as i never click on them :( but ill start clickin just to keep you around :)

r4tch3t 20th February 2007, 06:43

Just clicking doesn't do anything unless you actually buy something. I click on a few when I go, "hmmm, thats interesting lets have a look. Damn if only I lived in the UK"
I was wondering what had happened to the top tabs as they were out of alignment or something (Yes I visit Bit that much that I no longer even read the words in those and it confuses me when something changes.) Nice it looks much better than the other price comparison sites.
Great one Bit, you rock

DougEdey 20th February 2007, 06:56

The UK list of etailers is missing a biggie, Scan. I think thats a bit odd to be perfectly honest.

Tim S 20th February 2007, 07:15

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Originally Posted by DougEdey
The UK list of etailers is missing a biggie, Scan. I think thats a bit odd to be perfectly honest.

Scan is on the list, they're just choosing not to list some products strangely.

DougEdey 20th February 2007, 07:31

OK then.

Found a bug though.

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/23201049/Asus_P5B_Deluxe_WiFi_AP_Motherboard/

By my calculations, £122 is less then £125.

BioSniper 20th February 2007, 07:39

Would look like its assuming the best price is the price BEFORE delivery.. kinda weird really.

perplekks45 20th February 2007, 08:08

Actually yesterday (yea... yesterday, even though you say it launches today :p ) I found it by mistake. I wanted to click on the 'Forum' button but after I clicked blindly as always I realised it had moved. :)

I like it but two things:

1st: It's too late! I bought my new hardware a month ago.
2nd: UK and US only? Damn! Would've loved to use it but importing from UK/US might be a bit difficult/expensive, wouldn't it?

But I like it. It's as good/better as/than most the price search engines I use normally. Good work guys! Now get a Europe version and I'm 100% happy. ;)

antiHero 20th February 2007, 08:19

Boys you`ve done it again!
Very nice work on this one.
Just one thing(actualy two) could you sort Manufacturer list in alphabetic order?
And a Typo on the Benq FP202W the Res is 1680x1050 not 1580x1050.
Everything else is great!!! One reason more to move to the UK :D

Bindibadgi 20th February 2007, 08:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by monkeyville
Can i assume your going to be linking to this every time you do a review?

Will be useful to compare the rrp at time of review and current shopping price a few months down the line when i might consider it part of my price range

That should be an eventual outcome. In weeks or months after an article is written prices go down, or different shops stock it so i'll make it easier to keep track.

Da_Rude_Baboon 20th February 2007, 08:53

Either your prices or choice of suppliers is weird as you have the 42PX600 cheaper than the 42PX60 and nobody would be be paying £1449 for the PX60 either! [link]

Also you have start ratings. How do you rate a product?

RTT 20th February 2007, 08:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by DougEdey
OK then.

Found a bug though.

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/23201049/Asus_P5B_Deluxe_WiFi_AP_Motherboard/

By my calculations, £122 is less then £125.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BioSniper
Would look like its assuming the best price is the price BEFORE delivery.. kinda weird really.

Oops. Fixing it now. I forgot shipping :o

Risky 20th February 2007, 08:58

Great stuff. I'll definitely use this over my old choice of dealtime/shopping.com

One question, when stuff appears in the wrong category (mobos, HSF in CPUs) is this down to the retailers messing up on thier feeds?

bubsterboo 20th February 2007, 09:06

I'd use it if there was Canadian prices :P.
But yeah, cool stuff...

RTT 20th February 2007, 09:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by antiHero
alphabetical sorting & Typo on the Benq FP202W the Res is 1680x1050 not 1580x1050.

Thanks, i'll pass this on. :)

Alpha sorting: yes

RTT 20th February 2007, 09:29

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Originally Posted by Buzzons
Pope but i never click on them anyway ever.

and i enabled it straight away after that, and i didnt think it would cost you money as i never click on them :( but ill start clickin just to keep you around :)

Doesn't matter mate :) We don't get paid per click, so the whole "but i don't click on them anyway!" argument doesn't hold up ;)

There's also no need to "start clicking" - by all means click on stuff that you genuinely want to click on, but adding 10 clicks for us 'just because' is also a bit daft :D

As has been said a billion times before, we really bust our balls every day to bring relevant, decent advertising to the site. It stops us from having to resort to those horrid ads such as those that randomly underline words like this and all sorts of other nasty methods of generating revenue that'd eventually kill us :)

Take a look at this site - that's what we'd have to turn into. Red areas = advertising. Awful isn't it?!

;)

DougEdey 20th February 2007, 09:31

The thing is that I didn't think that I used ads for ages. Then I started to click ones as they become more relevant.

Bit-Tech is still the only site where ads work for me.

bahgger 20th February 2007, 09:32

Great stuff, just noticed it last night and was surfing it a bit, shame I already made a recent purchase but I was glad to find out that the prices I paid weren't that much off the lowest offer!

Fr4nk 20th February 2007, 09:34

;) A brilliant addition to the site, I'll defiantly be using this from now on :D

can we have a water cooling section? :P

RTT 20th February 2007, 09:34

Also, thanks for the responses so far - keep them coming :)

rupbert 20th February 2007, 11:12

Completely unexpected and surprisingly useful :)

No overclockers.co.uk?

g3n3tiX 20th February 2007, 11:13

Whoa ! Didn't see that coming...
But sadly in live in frenchyland, so I can't really benefit from it !

There are some quite good bargains for Vista... (ultimate @ £142.18)

RTT 20th February 2007, 11:13

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Originally Posted by rupbert
No overclockers.co.uk?

They don't do any advertising, period. Cheap gits :D

DougEdey 20th February 2007, 11:22

Bit-tech is a competitor to them. We have a forum, and don't ban people for being normal.

r4tch3t 20th February 2007, 11:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by DougEdey
Bit-tech is a competitor to them. We have a forum, and don't ban people for being normal.

How can we be a competitor? We totally pwn them.
Anyways, they send me a scratched iPod (for my GF I wont touch em)

rupbert 20th February 2007, 11:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by DougEdey
Bit-tech is a competitor to them. We have a forum, and don't ban people for being normal.

How can they be a competitor? Bit-Tech don't sell anything.

Personally I buy most of my stuff from them, would be nice if I could compare the prices.

RTT 20th February 2007, 11:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by rupbert
How can they be a competitor? Bit-Tech don't sell anything.

Personally I buy most of my stuff from them, would be nice if I could compare the prices.

They're a little backwards, that lot (OcUK). They absolutely refuse to spend a even a penny on advertising and refuse to believe that other retailers exist. On their forums you can't even link to a site that has advertising for another site. By their logic any website, even if it was a website about cookery, would be a competitor if they had an ebuyer (or whatever) banner. They're mad :)

rupbert 20th February 2007, 11:53

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Originally Posted by RTT
They're a little backwards, that lot (OcUK). They absolutely refuse to spend a even a penny on advertising and refuse to believe that other retailers exist. On their forums you can't even link to a site that has advertising for another site. By their logic any website, even if it was a website about cookery, would be a competitor if they had an ebuyer (or whatever) banner. They're mad :)

That's a shame on their part.

Understandable that you wouldn't include prices for a company that isn't willing to advertise...

I'm not sure how these shopping comparison sites work, I assume the host (Bit-Tech in this case) do not get 'paid per click' as it were?

DXR_13KE 20th February 2007, 11:58

this is a nice addition.... but please make it so that it can be useful for other European countries....... i don't mind buying stuff from Germany and other countries. :D

DLoney 20th February 2007, 12:20

Wow. Awesome Job guys.

Dumb comment/question though
The content is absolutely there, but why in the name of god did you break up the flow of the website? Move that content into the current sites layout and you have yourself an winner for sure, but as it stands right now, it seems disconnected from the overall bit-tech feel, might as well could have been its own site (IE: completely other site completely unconnected to bit-tech)

mikeuk2004 20th February 2007, 12:27

mmm........searched for a Nikon D80 and get one seller.

Price grabber dont compare with Jessops or even play.com???? Play has alot of bargins sometimes and would look good on here.

Well you are using price grabber.

EDIT: play is on but did not bring back a result for a Nikon D80 which they do sell. So guess the search engine is dud

RTT 20th February 2007, 12:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeuk2004
mmm........searched for a Nikon D80 and get one seller.

Price grabber dont compare with Jessops or even play.com???? Play has alot of bargins sometimes and would look good on here.

Well you are using price grabber.

Play and Jessops are signed up, but retailers choose what to be included in - so if you don't see Jessops for the D80, that's because they don't want to be listed on that page even though they sell the D80 :) Of course next week they may decide to be included on that page, in which case they'll appear ;)

otispunkmeyer 20th February 2007, 12:33

why did it just change from bit-tech shopping to trustedreviews shopping mid flight?

lol

i know you guys are sisters, but that was odd

mikeuk2004 20th February 2007, 12:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by RTT
Play and Jessops are signed up, but retailers choose what to be included in - so if you don't see Jessops for the D80, that's because they don't want to be listed on that page even though they sell the D80 :) Of course next week they may decide to be included on that page, in which case they'll appear ;)

Yeah I get you. I just done some other searches for things any they both poped up.

otispunkmeyer 20th February 2007, 12:41

oh yeah and when searching by manufacturer it doesnt seem to cancel the previous out

so you end up searching for acer in apple or something

RTT 20th February 2007, 12:43

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Originally Posted by otispunkmeyer

so you end up searching for acer in apple or something

Filters 'add up' when you add multiple filters from one filter set.

For example, selecting Apple and Acer will give you Apple AND Acer stuff.

RTT 20th February 2007, 12:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by DLoney

The content is absolutely there, but why in the name of god did you break up the flow of the website? Move that content into the current sites layout and you have yourself an winner for sure, but as it stands right now, it seems disconnected from the overall bit-tech feel, might as well could have been its own site (IE: completely other site completely unconnected to bit-tech)

We thought about this and it's a valid question. The current site design didn't really work for shopping - we couldn't feasibly get a big menu in across the top of the site and putting the existing site navigation on the top would also be quite confusing ("huh? why don't i get hardware deals when i click hardware?" the same for gaming too).
We also don't want to detract from bit-tech's editorial content. That is what bit-tech is all about. Shopping will complement it, but it isn't a part of it. Difficult to explain ;)

mclean007 20th February 2007, 13:27

Would be good if there were a filter in monitors -> LCD -> resolution for 1680 x 1050 - for some reason it jumps from 1280 x 1024 to 1600 x 1200 to 1920 x 1200

ohcyt 20th February 2007, 13:43

will you add prices for the rest of Europe in Euro's, or is this feature US/UK only?

whisperwolf 20th February 2007, 14:11

Any chance of putting in whether a product is in stock at supplier?

RTT 20th February 2007, 14:32

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Originally Posted by whisperwolf
Any chance of putting in whether a product is in stock at supplier?

We can do this. I'll get back to you ;)

randosome 20th February 2007, 14:36

wow great idea guys :) ill take a gander when i have some free time, plus i need some HDD's

Edit
Do you get a commision from this ?

TheoGeo 20th February 2007, 15:05

nice, it could do with a few more filters though, such as HDCP for televisions and monitors

edit: also i was just looking for a 22" monitor and when i applied the filter for "> 21 Inches" it only gave 5 results even though there should be alot more

edit2: when moving along pages of results, it adds more filters just named "Filter" and clicking these filters to try remove them either does nothing or it removes all the filters i've applies.

TomH 20th February 2007, 15:38

Looks familar.. :p

/waits for RTT to slap him :)

Tim S 20th February 2007, 15:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheoGeo
nice, it could do with a few more filters though, such as HDCP for televisions and monitors

edit: also i was just looking for a 22" monitor and when i applied the filter for "> 21 Inches" it only gave 5 results even though there should be alot more

edit2: when moving along pages of results, it adds more filters just named "Filter" and clicking these filters to try remove them either does nothing or it removes all the filters i've applies.

There's loads of products not being listed at the moment for whatever reason. I have been assured that we are working to get that corrected though. :)

ComputerKing 20th February 2007, 16:13

Nice new thing , I like it , and it helpful really

thanks for this ,

hey , Can I get the prices with $ too ?? or I can't !!

BigM2006 20th February 2007, 16:22

Just a thought, but the filters in the Hard Drive section are pretty useless.
Some of the bigger filters such as >5TB dont have any results.

Seems like a waste of space in the filter section to include filters that dont display any results.

Nath 20th February 2007, 16:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Computerking
Nice new thing , I like it , and it helpful really

thanks for this ,

hey , Can I get the prices with $ too ?? or I can't !!

Click the huge button saying 'US Prices' at the top.

ComputerKing 20th February 2007, 16:31

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Originally Posted by Nath
Click the huge button saying 'US Prices' at the top.

OMG , Im stupid !! OKOK Thank you

Jamie 20th February 2007, 16:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheoGeo
when moving along pages of results, it adds more filters just named "Filter" and clicking these filters to try remove them either does nothing or it removes all the filters i've applies.

Thanks for pointing out this bug, it is now fixed.

DLoney 20th February 2007, 17:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by RTT
We thought about this and it's a valid question. The current site design didn't really work for shopping - we couldn't feasibly get a big menu in across the top of the site and putting the existing site navigation on the top would also be quite confusing ("huh? why don't i get hardware deals when i click hardware?" the same for gaming too).
We also don't want to detract from bit-tech's editorial content. That is what bit-tech is all about. Shopping will complement it, but it isn't a part of it. Difficult to explain ;)

Ah. I hear ya.

OK, cool. thanks, the thought of it was bugging me for a while there. (maybe make the link blank instead of linked to the parent as to cause the link to open an new window so people dont lose their nav. on the original site... or something...) But thanks for the reply, ill be sure to use it for my upcoming rig.
;)

TomH 20th February 2007, 17:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeuk2004
mmm........searched for a Nikon D80 and get one seller.

Price grabber dont compare with Jessops or even play.com???? Play has alot of bargins sometimes and would look good on here.

Well you are using price grabber.

EDIT: play is on but did not bring back a result for a Nikon D80 which they do sell. So guess the search engine is dud

Little tip: Tecno.com, cameras2u.com, shopping4u.com, satnav2u.com .. They're all Jessops-owned in one way or another.

You'll usually find the cheapest prices for anything photographic between them, and if one's missing something the others will still have it most-likely... And they're [obviously] all UK companieswhich is a bonus (when you've dealt with pixmania.co.uk, you'll understand).

monkeyville 20th February 2007, 18:00

I hope it isnt just me being an idiot but when i was searching for a motherboard and selected abit (or any specific manufacturer) and then attempted to sort by price the manufacturer filter stopped working

RTT 20th February 2007, 18:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by monkeyville
I hope it isnt just me being an idiot but when i was searching for a motherboard and selected abit (or any specific manufacturer) and then attempted to sort by price the manufacturer filter stopped working

It wasn't you, it was my fault :) Fixed now (we think!) - thanks :D

TGImages 20th February 2007, 18:17

Um... I thought this was going to be a technology comparison site.... I tried to search for 164e (as in the VBox Cat's Eye 164E HTPC Tuner card).

I got results of:

Chilton's Repair Manual VOlvo 1970-89
8mb EDO Memory Module
Italbrass (counter accessories) - multiple entries
164ft long Sony cables - multiple entries
HP iPaq H1935
Elle Macpherson clothing - multiple entries
LEI PlumeriaMen's clothing
Stylish, Comptempoart hotel on Upper East Side (which is a broken link, BTW)

So this is a giant catalog shopping site, not just technology?

RTT 20th February 2007, 18:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by TGImages
Um... I thought this was going to be a technology comparison site.... I tried to search for 164e (as in the VBox Cat's Eye 164E HTPC Tuner card).

I got results of:

Chilton's Repair Manual VOlvo 1970-89
8mb EDO Memory Module
Italbrass (counter accessories) - multiple entries
164ft long Sony cables - multiple entries
HP iPaq H1935
Elle Macpherson clothing - multiple entries
LEI PlumeriaMen's clothing
Stylish, Comptempoart hotel on Upper East Side (which is a broken link, BTW)

So this is a giant catalog shopping site, not just technology?

Yes that's correct - it isn't our database. What search did you perform exactly (i tried the search term that you mentioned and got nothing) - a link would be good.

We are filtering to remove non-relevant results (i.e. non tech) but obviously things are still slipping through.

TGImages 20th February 2007, 18:28

Thanks! I thought I got in the wrong DB or something.

The exact search was for 164E, the results page is at:
http://shopping.bit-tech.net/US/search?q=164e

Hope this helps.

MiT 20th February 2007, 21:32

Question:
http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/search?q=usb%2Bdvd%2Bdrive&subcat=7

Why can i not show results in price order?
(Am sure i saw it before)

Cheers.

Edit: When i type in search "usb hub", it doesnt show me sort oder
http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/search?q=usb+hub

but when i click from the nav menu "Networking>hub", then i can sort by price.
http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/category/p/16/Hubs/

thecrownles 21st February 2007, 01:42

I know your shopping site is a pricegrabber site, so I'm not sure if you guys can do this, but I have a feature request that I haven't seen on any other shopping sites, and that would be a price per gigabyte filter, being able to sort by price per gigabyte in Hard Drives would be awesome. Thanks anyways, always glad to see this site expanding in a good direction.

BlueDemon 21st February 2007, 08:47

Yay... PriceGrabber integrated into Bit-Tech. What will they think of next...

Seriouly, whenever I stumble upon sites like PriceGrabber, I get the urge to click the [X] button. Call me crazy, but all this marketing and advertising turns me off.

Mother-Goose 21st February 2007, 09:03

Are you treating this as your UAT period?

RTT 21st February 2007, 09:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueDemon
Yay... PriceGrabber integrated into Bit-Tech. What will they think of next...

Seriouly, whenever I stumble upon sites like PriceGrabber, I get the urge to click the [X] button. Call me crazy, but all this marketing and advertising turns me off.

Sorry that you feel like that. It isn't really pricegrabber though, since we can do whatever we want with the data that we have access to. If you happened to read this then you'd know that we have a tonne of features coming to it that you won't find on pricegrabber.co.uk.

It's awesome to know that people appreciate it when we try to offer a cool service free of ads, and that isn't forced on to anyone as it is not integrated at all into the bit-tech website :)

RTT 21st February 2007, 09:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by MiT
Question:
http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/search?q=usb%2Bdvd%2Bdrive&subcat=7

Why can i not show results in price order?
(Am sure i saw it before)

Cheers.

Edit: When i type in search "usb hub", it doesnt show me sort oder
http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/search?q=usb+hub

but when i click from the nav menu "Networking>hub", then i can sort by price.
http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/category/p/16/Hubs/

I shall add this functionality - it didn't exist before :)

fini 21st February 2007, 10:16

Any chance of adding komplett and dabs - couldn't see them on anything - the Western Digital MyBook Pro 500GB external is cheapest at Dabs at the moment (if not including postage).

fini

Tim S 21st February 2007, 10:21

Komplett and Dabs are partners, but the products you're talking about may just not be in their feeds at the moment (for whatever reason).

severedhead 21st February 2007, 12:26

A great addition, works very well. Just a shame that the retailers don't choose to list everything they sell, but thats not your fault.

Out of interest, what happened to bit-tech.computerprices.com or whatever it was. I remember seeing that somewhere on here ages ago.

RTT 21st February 2007, 12:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by severedhead

Out of interest, what happened to bit-tech.computerprices.com or whatever it was. I remember seeing that somewhere on here ages ago.

I thought no one remembered that - that's YEARS old!

It was kinda rubbish and died back in '05 sometime.

severedhead 21st February 2007, 12:38

lol, just sprung to mind after noticing this. This is FAR superior and that was pretty pants.

Godboy_g 21st February 2007, 12:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by bubsterboo
I'd use it if there was Canadian prices :P.
But yeah, cool stuff...

Seconded :-)

cpemma 21st February 2007, 16:45

I've just been amused by the "best price" for an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual Core Processor - £344.97 delivered.

(The cheaper AMD - ADO4200CUBOX (£96.35) seems to be missing its speed on the bold item line, along with the 5600.)

I love price comparing, it's saved me a mint. Added to Bargain Bin sticky.

The_Pope 21st February 2007, 18:54

I'm going to set up a dedicated mailbox for y'all to report bugs, suggest features etc. We want to evolve this service into something *seriously* world-leading and as RTT says, we can do pretty much whatever we want with the data. Which means feel free to suggest ideas or request different filters (as above) etc etc

MiT 21st February 2007, 20:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by RTT
I shall add this functionality - it didn't exist before :)

:D Thanks.

Ramble 23rd February 2007, 21:33

It seems pretty good but the first day I saw it I looked for some memory and couldn't find anything above DDR2-800. Bit disappointing for an enthusiast site.

The other thing is PLEASE can you switch the columns and forums buttons around. I've been used to teh forum button being in one particular place (in line with the content on the front page) for ages now. I hate where it is atm.

RTT 24th February 2007, 10:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ramble
It seems pretty good but the first day I saw it I looked for some memory and couldn't find anything above DDR2-800. Bit disappointing for an enthusiast site.

We're working very closely with the pricegrabber guys since we're already their biggest UK 'partner'. They're keen to improve in any area that we tell them to (and already are infact, especially in gaming) so things over time will get better as they can learn from us.

Quote:

The other thing is PLEASE can you switch the columns and forums buttons around. I've been used to teh forum button being in one particular place (in line with the content on the front page) for ages now. I hate where it is atm.

No. Stop asking and get used to it :)

alextwo 25th February 2007, 12:26

Under the Memory Manufacturers there is OCZ as well as OCZ Technologies. Not sure if this is deliberate or not?

Bindibadgi 25th February 2007, 13:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by alextwo
Under the Memory Manufacturers there is OCZ as well as OCZ Technologies. Not sure if this is deliberate or not?

Some companies list is as OCZ, others OCZ Tech. If you click them both you get *all* of OCZ.

Another trick to it is; if you can't find what you're looking for, try searching for the product number. ;) When I was looking around at the OCZ FlexXLC prices last friday "OCZ FlexXLC" didn't come up, but the P/N did. :)

will. 25th February 2007, 23:26

this may have already been mentioned, but I'd like to see where those ratings are coming from... Something may have 5 stars, but I've not idea whether that is based on one rating by any random person or by 500 tech experts...

pumpman 26th February 2007, 00:35

is it possible to have it as an add on for Firefox ?

DougEdey 26th February 2007, 12:18

The filters aren't working right when you perform a search.

I looked for Samung then selected the displays and monitors category.

I got This

I'm pretty sure a notebook isn't a monitor.

RTT 26th February 2007, 12:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by DougEdey
The filters aren't working right when you perform a search.

I looked for Samung then selected the displays and monitors category.

I got This

I'm pretty sure a notebook isn't a monitor.

Cheers. I'll look into whether it's an us or them (PG) thing.

DarkLord7854 27th February 2007, 16:28

Loving it :D

Though it could do with a few more filters :(
But I'm guessing that'll be in Shopping2.0 :D

randosome 27th February 2007, 17:57

ordered a 2.5" 160gb laptop drive, unfortunately when i went to actually order it, i forgot the set the IDE filter it seems, so i bought a SATA laptop HDD :( /sigh

Oh well, lets see if they will allow me to send it back, not bit techs fault, but bad start to my shopping using bit-tech shopping

also, i don't recall an answer, but do bit-tech get a commission from sales through this service ? out of interest

Also it would be nice if some more E-tailers were on it, ebuyer (dont think ive seen them on there) overclock and overclockers would be nice :)

RTT 27th February 2007, 18:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by randosome
Also it would be nice if some more E-tailers were on it, ebuyer (dont think ive seen them on there) overclock and overclockers would be nice :)

if you read back in the thread you'll find that we've already covered this ;) overclockers do not advertise anywhere, ever.

Ebuyer are signed up, as are overclock (i think), but the merchants themselves control what products they are listed for, and often do not list themselves for every product. You may see Ebuyer on, for example, a 3800+ but not a 4600+.

randosome 27th February 2007, 20:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by RTT
if you read back in the thread you'll find that we've already covered this ;) overclockers do not advertise anywhere, ever.

Ebuyer are signed up, as are overclock (i think), but the merchants themselves control what products they are listed for, and often do not list themselves for every product. You may see Ebuyer on, for example, a 3800+ but not a 4600+.

ok thanks :) not that overclockers is that big a deal, they are allready very expensive (probably why they dont like comparison sites ;))

and as for commisions ? ;) (it almost seems like your avoiding it now ;))

The_Pope 27th February 2007, 21:17

eBuyer are one of the biggest partners. You'll see a mix of all the big guys: Misco, Dabs, Scan, eBuyer, Micro Direct etc

Just as with the graphical banners, if a bit-tech reader buys a product as a result of a click from the site, we score brownie points (since that is one of the reasons to advertise). We can't discuss commercially sensitive relationships in public though.

Using bit-tech Shopping to buy things does help us. No Green Plague round 'ere ;)

DarkLord7854 27th February 2007, 21:53

As long as it goes back into Bit-Tech.net and to the users (better site, better shopping, faster server,...) sounds good to me :D

Jamie 28th February 2007, 00:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkLord7854
faster server

Yes! :(

Ben 2nd March 2007, 07:42

When you do a search the navigation bar has shopping twice:

bit-tech.net > Shopping > Shopping > Search

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/search?q=1234

DougEdey 2nd March 2007, 07:49

If you don't put anything in the search box you get an empty page.

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/search?q=

Poor show Rich!

RTT 2nd March 2007, 08:02

hah :D

DougEdey 2nd March 2007, 08:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by RTT
hah :D

My fee for finding that bug is one Dell 2407FPW

DougEdey 2nd March 2007, 12:28

And for my second trick today:

When there are no products in a category, and thus no filters, there's a weird 3 sided box which appears. Nothing inside it, but it's a hyperlink to the same category (like here).
Looks out of place on the page, and those two lines below it look odd.

The top line in IE6 appears to jump to the box.

Not sure if this is because the workplace "security" measures here are affecting the Javascipt.

mclean007 2nd March 2007, 12:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by DougEdey
And for my second trick today:

When there are no products in a category, and thus no filters, there's a weird 3 sided box which appears. Nothing inside it, but it's a hyperlink to the same category (like here).
Looks out of place on the page, and those two lines below it look odd.

The top line in IE6 appears to jump to the box.

Not sure if this is because the workplace "security" measures here are affecting the Javascipt.

Yup, does the same for me, on both Firefox and IE (a three sided box on Ff, a 'hump' in the top line in IE) - both hyperlink back to the same page.

RTT 2nd March 2007, 12:43

Thanks (although I knew about it already) :) It's all my fault :D

DougEdey 2nd March 2007, 13:28

Is it possible to remove filters where there's nothing under them? Like the Hard Drives have filters for 600-699GB yet there's sod all under them? There's like 18 filters for HDD capacity and as they are all hyperlinks they get very confusing.

Bindibadgi 2nd March 2007, 14:36

Doug: email me at Richard dot Swinburne at bit - tech dot net what filters and/or categories you think needs adding/removing. I've already submitted a huge list to Geoff and I'll just amend and add to it.

The_Pope 2nd March 2007, 15:36

Or just email them directly to me if you like: geoff DOT richards AT bit-tech.net

Indeed, I'm considering setting up a dedicated mailbox for readers to email bugs to. As you can see, there are LOTS of categories and there will be little bugs like this that haven't been found yet. Most of the time they are easily tidied once we know about them.

And you're right - these Hard Drive filters make little or no sense. RTT is gonna check the feed shortly and see how easy a fix is.

Blademrk 2nd March 2007, 19:17

I'm going to order a corsair 1 GB Turbo Flash Vista accelerator (I know dabs sells them for £16 product code 4D6LDM ) so I thought I'd use the bit searcher to give you the credit, but it doesn't seem to come up in the listings (searched using keywords Vista, Corsair Flash ) but I just get copies of vista or USB/SD memory

RTT 2nd March 2007, 19:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blademrk
I'm going to order a corsair 1 GB Turbo Flash Vista accelerator (I know dabs sells them for £16 product code 4D6LDM ) so I thought I'd use the bit searcher to give you the credit, but it doesn't seem to come up in the listings (searched using keywords Vista, Corsair Flash ) but I just get copies of vista or USB/SD memory

I've just taken a look and that product definitely doesn't exist - so it isn't your choice of keywords :)

Ben 2nd March 2007, 20:36

found these:

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/search?q=vis
http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/search?q=vi

The_Pope 3rd March 2007, 09:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blademrk
I'm going to order a corsair 1 GB Turbo Flash Vista accelerator (I know dabs sells them for £16 product code 4D6LDM ) so I thought I'd use the bit searcher to give you the credit, but it doesn't seem to come up in the listings (searched using keywords Vista, Corsair Flash ) but I just get copies of vista or USB/SD memory

I can get that added next week if you like. Tis a very new product

Blademrk 3rd March 2007, 12:49

Cheers, I'll hold off buying it till then .

koola 4th March 2007, 11:13

Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but it's anoying for me.

Clicking the down arrow sorts the prices from High to Low and vice versa for the up arrow. Wouldn't it be more logical to have prices sorted Low to High when clicking the down (i.e. Low) arrow?

Overall, a good product, but these little things do p*** me off :)

RTT 4th March 2007, 11:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by koola
Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but it's anoying for me.

Clicking the down arrow sorts the prices from High to Low and vice versa for the up arrow. Wouldn't it be more logical to have prices sorted Low to High when clicking the down (i.e. Low) arrow?

Overall, a good product, but these little things do p*** me off :)

Up = Ascending, Down = Descending - isn't that almost universal? :? Overclockers.co.uk do it this way too - up arrow indicating price ascending and vice versa

randosome 4th March 2007, 16:00

although the down arrow would seem more logical humanly, just about every site uses an up arrow for lowest first (well of the ones i look at)

then again if you look at an arrow - ^
the smallest bit is at the top, and biggest at the bottom (if that helps you remember)

DougEdey 4th March 2007, 16:04

On most sorting methods it's not an arrow, it's just an arrowhead.

Look at PHPMyAdmin style RTT, that'll work.

koola 10th March 2007, 09:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by RTT
Up = Ascending, Down = Descending - isn't that almost universal? :? Overclockers.co.uk do it this way too - up arrow indicating price ascending and vice versa

Now that you mention it, OCUK do use the same sorting method, but I've never used it as I've always sorted by catagory then brand and found what I needed.

Maybe the Froogle way is the better way.

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/cbe6f99f5b.png

randosome 10th March 2007, 16:45

thats also the way amazon does it

DarkLord7854 10th March 2007, 19:07

As well as neweeg, and tigerdirect, and all other commercial sites :p

DougEdey 10th March 2007, 19:35

You guys are all right, but the difference is that bit-tech shopping uses FULL arrows. Which indicates "This way" everywhere else uses the head only which indicates "big to little" or "little to big"

RTT 10th March 2007, 21:49

It's on the list of things to be changed :)

ozstrike 10th March 2007, 22:12

For me it seems really strange that the main navigation bar isn't there any more. (don't know if this has been mentioned before or not)

randosome 11th March 2007, 17:32

out of interest

Why do USB HDD's and HDD's get grouped into the same catagory, but NAS HDD's are in a seperate catagory :?

randosome 13th March 2007, 22:23

if you are shopping, and you add a filter that leaves you with no results, you get a "no results found" page, however all your filters are hidden so you cant modify them further without going back or whatever

http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bittechshopping1sk7.jpg

http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bittechshopping2sj8.jpg

a little irritating, but not the end of the world

rupbert 14th March 2007, 14:47

@ THAMA077

Welcome to the forums, and well...goodbye.

:)

r4tch3t 15th March 2007, 11:05

Searching for the BenQ FP202W, it comes up with three results all of which are the same monitor, one has incorrect resolution (1580 x 1050) another is BenQ BenQ FP202W. This is probably due to the way those particular sites have it listed.

The_Pope 15th March 2007, 11:51

Thanks - I'll get this fixed.

I have now created a dedicated email address for fast-tracking any gitches in the matrix, err, I mean bit-tech Shopping. If you spot something that's incorrectly listed, please email: shopping AT bit-tech.net.

The new email hotline will go direct to me.

RTT 15th March 2007, 11:57

Just to clarify -

Post technical issues (it doesnt work), questions (can we have feature XYZ?) and comments (i hate it) in this thread

The only stuff that should be sent to the email address is corrections (such as products appearing in the wrong category, products named incorrectly), please use the email address, as that's the stuff i don't need to deal with ;)

DougEdey 15th March 2007, 12:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by RTT
For corrections (such as products appearing in the wrong category, products named incorrectly), please use the email address, as that's the stuff i don't care about ;)

Fixed for truth :P

RTT 15th March 2007, 12:14

well, err, yes. that would be much more accurate :D

The_Pope 21st March 2007, 09:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by r4tch3t
Searching for the BenQ FP202W, it comes up with three results all of which are the same monitor, one has incorrect resolution (1580 x 1050) another is BenQ BenQ FP202W. This is probably due to the way those particular sites have it listed.

This has now been fixed. I now see BenQ FP20 for under £170 inc vat and delivery!

r4tch3t 21st March 2007, 10:00

Oh how I wish I still resided in the United Kingdom.

MrWillyWonka 23rd March 2007, 14:59

I don't know if this is within your control but can you add another shop to your lists - novatech.com

I do find that every so often their prices are lower than other etailers. Not just that but if its cheap I can just pop down the road to get it :D

DougEdey 11th April 2007, 09:38

RTT: You're code can't count.

I did a search for 256MB SODIMM PC133 and on the "Category Matches" it says it's found 5 matches.

But there's only two products, with 8 individual matches between them.

RTT 11th April 2007, 09:39

I'm not doing the counting. I'll pass the issue on to PG :) Thanks

DougEdey 11th April 2007, 09:42

Can I still blame it on you though?>

trigger 12th April 2007, 12:44

I'm not sure whether I may be missing something here, but some of the price ranges appear to be wrong, e.g.:

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/16823960/Kingston_1GB_Secure_Digital_Card/
Price range listed as £5.40 - £28.00, yet the lowest price is £6.05

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/20723359/SanDisk_Extreme_III_2GB_Secure_Digital_Card/
Price range listed as £16.29 - £64.99, yet the lowest price is £18.85

Also the Tokina 12-24mm f4 lens isn't listed, which I am going to buy soon, any chance of it appearing in the next couple of weeks?

ElThomsono 12th April 2007, 12:56

The lowest prices are excluding shipping, the lowest total price are the ones they're graded by.

RTT 12th April 2007, 13:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by trigger
I'm not sure whether I may be missing something here, but some of the price ranges appear to be wrong, e.g.:

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/16823960/Kingston_1GB_Secure_Digital_Card/
Price range listed as £5.40 - £28.00, yet the lowest price is £6.05

http://shopping.bit-tech.net/UK/product/20723359/SanDisk_Extreme_III_2GB_Secure_Digital_Card/
Price range listed as £16.29 - £64.99, yet the lowest price is £18.85

Also the Tokina 12-24mm f4 lens isn't listed, which I am going to buy soon, any chance of it appearing in the next couple of weeks?

As ElThomsono said, and as the sentence says, the price range is 5.40-28.00 plus delivery where applicable. This covers for the fact that sometimes you may be able to pick up an item at a shop and skip delivery charges.

I'll get the Tokina lens added for you if possible ;)

RTT 12th April 2007, 23:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by trigger

Also the Tokina 12-24mm f4 lens isn't listed, which I am going to buy soon, any chance of it appearing in the next couple of weeks?

Actually - have you checked these people out? http://www.onestop-digital.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=24_43 ;)

mclean007 20th April 2007, 12:17

A couple of products I have searched for (8800 GTS 640, Antec P180) show Magenta as the best price. Not a company I've used before, but I thought I'd have a look. In both cases, the price listed on their website is higher than the price on bit-tech shopping. As an example, Antec P180 shows cheapest price as Magenta - £76.43 before shipping, while Magenta's website lists it as £79.49. Are they cheekily reporting artificially low prices to drive traffic to their site, where they hope people won't notice prices are a few pounds higher?

Other example - PNY GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB Video Card - Magenta price according to bit-tech shopping = £257.54, price from link £267.84.

It's annoying - I plan to boycott them if this happens again. Perhaps bit-tech or PriceGrabber needs to warn them off? Or is there another explanation?

RTT 20th April 2007, 12:45

Thanks, we'll get right on it. They'll be punished if they're deliberately cheating the system

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