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It is indeed spam and having been spammed I generally won't use the services of the spammer.

Salty John said:
I'm intrigued by this thread. Those of us who have commercial interests in boating have to be very careful not to use the forums for sales and marketing purposes. The OP is soliciting feedback on, and also promoting, a commercial venture, but no-one seems to object.

I've always assumed that if I were to post about my site when we made changes to the format or introduced new products there would be howls of protest. Have I misjudged the forum mood? Are we becoming more tolerant of spamming, like some of the US sites?

Interesting.
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Not getting anything ... entered Delta Anchor, pressed search and get a little window in the middle saying searching 17 stores ... the little whirly thing isn't whirling so assume it doesn't work ... pity!
 
Galago said:
It is a great idea ... just wish it worked!
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That's why he is here, for some free market testing.

It worked for me. Confirmed what I already knew too - that Gill sets its prices and there is almost no variation across vendors for an OS2 jacket. It saved me trawling through the Chandleries I already knew of hoping for a bargain, and it introduced me to those I didn't know of. Now it is my choice where to buy one from.

I would happily use the service again as I am (a) able to manage my own expectations with respect to internet shopping in general and (b) am not yet retired and therefore able to spend my entire day trying to save a few pence.

Good on you Dave - good luck. Iron out the gremlins and it will do fine. Can't be as bad as those budget flight finding websites which open up 16 new windows, one for each separate search. Sheesh.

Andy
 
Thanks for the encouragement Andy!

Galago, it all seems to be working for me, maybe you can pm me with any information about how it's failing for you? I just ran your search and got plenty of hits. What are you using to view the site?
 
Bav34 said:
Impressive.

But :)

Typed in Cruiser Uno and also got results for Cruiser Blocks and CRUISING guides.
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I'm pretty sure getting results like that though are a function of the search facility of the various sites Dave's site searches & as such beyond his control. E.g. go to Marine Superstore site, type in "Cruiser Uno" & you'll still get all sorts of results...
 
V1701 said:
I'm pretty sure getting results like that though are a function of the search facility of the various sites Dave's site searches & as such beyond his control. E.g. go to Marine Superstore site, type in "Cruiser Uno" & you'll still get all sorts of results...
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Good point. Well made. :)
 
V1701 said:
I'm pretty sure getting results like that though are a function of the search facility of the various sites Dave's site searches & as such beyond his control. E.g. go to Marine Superstore site, type in "Cruiser Uno" & you'll still get all sorts of results...
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That's pretty much the case, although I am trying to identify the worst offenders and then apply some filtering to their results. But so far only for a couple of the sites, it'll get better over time, but it'll always be short of perfection!
 
Galago said:
It is a great idea ... just wish it worked!
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But Google Shopping has been doing it for years, and it works brilliantly, includes shipping costs, and searches the whole web - not just a handful of chandleries.

PS Oh, and Google's a lot quicker too.
 
pvb said:
But Google Shopping ... searches the whole web - not just a handful of chandleries.
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Exactly. It's horses for courses. It all depends on how you prefer to shop, Google Shopping is great but if you're hunting for technical goods within the chandlery sector, Google is a bit too broad-based. For me, anyway, and for certain types of purchases. After all, if Google was the whole answer, the online shops could all shut their websites and just upload their catalogues to Google!

PS Oh, and Google's a lot quicker too.
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Yeah. If my site was running on several thousand servers it'd be pretty fast as well! ;)
 
dave05 said:
Exactly. It's horses for courses. It all depends on how you prefer to shop, Google Shopping is great but if you're hunting for technical goods within the chandlery sector, Google is a bit too broad-based.
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Broad-based? That is, of course, ridiculous. Entering exactly the same search terms into Google Shopping as you'd enter into your search box will work much more effectively.
 
pvb said:
Broad-based? That is, of course, ridiculous. Entering exactly the same search terms into Google Shopping as you'd enter into your search box will work much more effectively.
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If there is a commercial interest, that's how it works.

It is naive to think "lines of code" cost nothing in time and more importantly
expertise. I learned my programming in C++ but I'm an oldster.

Google, unless your interrogation is very tight, does tend to give a scatter gun result. I
am confident in certain areas of chandlery but it took some time to cut through the wood
to find the trees when I was looking for relevant marine WIFI kit.

I will end this input before I become personal about nay sayers.
 
tokoloshe said:
Google, unless your interrogation is very tight, does tend to give a scatter gun result.
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Your "interrogation" doesn't have to be any tighter than it would be on the OP's site. If you want to buy say a Standard Horizon CP300i plotter, you'd simply type standard horizon cp300i into either Google Shopping or the OP's site. Google would give you a quicker, more focussed and cheaper result. Why try to reinvent the wheel?
 
pvb said:
Your "interrogation" doesn't have to be any tighter than it would be on the OP's site. If you want to buy say a Standard Horizon CP300i plotter, you'd simply type standard horizon cp300i into either Google Shopping or the OP's site. Google would give you a quicker, more focussed and cheaper result. Why try to reinvent the wheel?
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Clever dick.
 
tokoloshe said:
I wasn't insulting you, just making a deduction from your comment.

Not everyone is looking for a specific item.

Kiss Kiss
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On that basis, the OP's site wouldn't be any good anyway - it says "Search as specifically as you can" and goes on to say "1.You should have a good idea about what you want to buy before you come here. Pricealicious is optimised for price comparison, but is less useful for window shopping. 2.Start with a specific search on brand, product name, and perhaps model or version."

Oh, and please save your kisses for women of a certain age. ;)
 
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