Compare Everywhere/ShopSavvy

**StarLog** · 11-23-2008, 10:38 AM

Savvy works great, it shows the local stores for me.

It has had a couple wrong hits, as I scanned a can of glass cleaner and it showed a harry potter book. lol

**constellanation** · 11-23-2008, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by StarLog

Savvy works great, it shows the local stores for me.

It has had a couple wrong hits, as I scanned a can of glass cleaner and it showed a harry potter book. lol

I think thats more the fault of whomever inputs the product number for the site that it is hosting the product, rather then the program.

I've had no real problems with the program, and if it tells you that a product is at a store you should still call that's toys r us's inventory most likely.

**GasBot** · 11-23-2008, 12:41 PM

I think you guys are missing out on some opportunities just by dismissing these apps.

For example, my girlfriend and I went to Kohl's last weekend looking for a stainless steel pressure cooker. We found one but it was like $60, so I scanned it with ShopSavvy and it showed Walmart as having it for $42.22. She then said she was just over there and they didn't have it at all. So we just went up to the Kohl's register and asked if they price matched. They looked at the Walmart price and price matched it right there! Walked out of there with the thing for like $45 after tax.

I think it's awesome if it shows Walmart prices for less cause then you can always go elsewhere and possibly get it even cheaper (if the place has a 110% pricematch guarantee).

**gamexdragon** · 11-24-2008, 05:11 PM

@GasBot

Did you show them your ShopSavvy app for them to do the price match or did they look in their own records/website/call Walmart? I'd be surprised if they just looked at your app and that worked

**GasBot** · 11-24-2008, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by gamexdragon

@GasBot

Did you show them your ShopSavvy app for them to do the price match or did they look in their own records/website/call Walmart? I'd be surprised if they just looked at your app and that worked

I showed them the price on ShopSavvy, then clicked on it showing the Walmart locations nearby that had it and they pricematched it right there. Didn't call them or lookup anything. Maybe I got lucky, but it worked just before that when we went to Advance Auto Parts to get some brake/reverse lights for her Jeep and they rang up at $4.99. I scanned them and they showed up on Amazon at $1.99 and the guy price matched them immediately. I didn't think he'd do it since it was a web price and there weren't any local competitors that came up, but he did.

**CJ Chitwood** · 11-25-2008, 07:56 PM

If you show them a web page loading live, most people will accept that. Even if you were a hacker and you somehow made it go to your own hacked page, if you want it that badly, they may well figure it's not worth the time spent verifying it just for one customer. Or, they may have had a similar experience earlier the same day.

I showed my phone to a cashier at CompUSA/TigerDirect one day -- fortunately, the price as displayed instore was wrong and their register scanned correctly anyway, but that's the closest I've come to needing it.

Ultimately, you KNOW when a price isn't right... I'm assuming Wii Music is more like $199 than 19.99, though I wouldn't know. If I saw something like that, I'd dismiss that one hit, and look at the others. It's a research tool, not gospel truth, and using it is no different than using what someone wrote in a doctoral dissertation: some of it may not be 100% factual or correct, so you take what you can verify and drop the rest as chaffe from the wheat.