Pricegrabber Mobile Review

Today people don’t speak so much about financial crisis but still everyone wants to save some money. The best way to save money is to buy cheaper. But it is difficult to compare the prices and to know actual situation on the price market. This unpleasant and routine work does for you the site pricegrabber.com . Now it has got a nice mobile version so you should pay attention to both of them, normal version and mobile. If you haven’t used pricegrabber.com before you will get a lot of useful info in this review.

Site provides.

Price compare
This is definitely the main aim of the site. The whole process takes several seconds. You need just to type in the name and the model of a product you a going to buy and press find it. After that you get the table with images of the product and the prices. We advise you to press on switch to list view. The list shows exactly the same information but it’s easier to overview. Unfortunately site is not adjusted to show you automatically the lowest prices but you can click on sort by Price and you will see the lowest prices on the top.
Design of the site.
Site looks good in all modern browsers. It has no problems with displaying images and flash animations. The left menu looks rather old-stylish but it makes the navigation much easier. On the main page you can see some featured products and the images of some categories. So there is nothing much to say about the design, it’s just appropriate to the site.
Mobile version.
Pricegraber.com does not have universal mobile version for all devices. But it has 3 applications for Iphone, Ipad and Android platform to make this service mobile. The main advantage of such a mobile version is that you can use your device camera to help you buy cheaper. This works so: you run your application, then you take a photo of QR code of the product you have seen. And the application searches throw the database and shows you were you can buy it cheaper. The benefit is that you should not type in the exact model of the device you are looking for. Usually people even don’t know the name of the product and the model can be not written on the surface of a box. So making a photo of QR code is brilliant solution.Other positive aspect is that you get not only the price of the device you are interested. But you get some technical information, reviews and description. This application can be used for this purpose as well. If you have seen a new device in the shop but you want to know some specific characteristic and the shop assistant can’t help you. All you need is only a device supporting this application.

And the last but not the least good feature of the application is that it is completely free of charge.

Site drawbacks

Here we want to write about absence of a version for Symbian smartphones, Windows mobile. On the one hand this devices and not the most popular but sill many millions of people use them. But the best variant would be a Java application for normal mobile phones. Such applications exists and they have good functionality but pricegrabber.com hasn’t it.

Performance

In our test the mobile applications was not always helpful. And sometimes we could get any information at all. Probably the photo of QR code was taken wrong and just the device was not in the database of the site.

Site summary and verdict:

We don’t know, have anybody counted how much money was saved with help of pricegrabber.com? Interesting is influence of such site on global market, we are sure that direct comparison make the Internet shops sinks the price all the time. Nowadays almost all countries have own variants of such a site. Some of them are better some are worse but still the original service is pricegrabber.

The site and service is highly advisable. We tried to use it for our own purposes and it worked fine. We searched for a specific phone models and we got all the source where it can be bought. After it we decided to make the task more difficult and searched for a battery of this phone model. As a result we found both the phone and the battery. So you can use this service also in cases then you can’t find a specific gadget or model. The database of pricegraber seems to be endless. If you are not sure about the reliability of the shop (this happens quite often, because you get new shops you have never heard) under the product you can see evolution (red stars) given by clients and users of pricegraber.

Verdict: amazing service one of the most useful we have reviewed but the application should have versions for other platforms

Our mark: 9/10