Top tips for successful Christmas shopping on price comparison sites

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 18, 2009 -- Windsor, 18th December 2009 – With only a week left to finish your online Christmas shopping price comparison sites are a quick way of making sure that you are getting the best deal.

But not all comparison shopping sites are equal and SCCOPE (www.sccope.co.uk), the ultimate consumer shopping tool, has identified five top tips for successful comparison shopping.

The tips are:

1. Adverts – read the price results you are offered carefully. Some comparison sites put their own advertisements into their search results.

2. Prices – check how often the prices on the comparison site are updated. If it is not at least once a day you could be wasting your time as the best offers may have already sold out.

3. Reputable retailers – check that the prices you are offered are from reputable retailers. Take a good look at the website and check for a UK address and telephone number. Call the number to confirm that it works and it is the company is purports to be.

4. Security – check that the retailers are using HTTPS server and not just HTTP. You should see a padlock logo on the top right hand of the address bar.

5. Delivery – read the delivery conditions very carefully on the retailer’s website. This close to Christmas the delivery charges can be high, especially when compared to the price of a cheaper toy or gift.


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More about SCCOPE

SCCOPE is the ultimate consumer shopping tool. It provides consumers with reassurance on their purchases by providing detailed information on prices from the UK’s top 100 retailers. SCCOPE focuses on electronics, games, books, DVDs and toys and carries 280,000 separate product numbers and four million different price points. Easy to read graphs for each product provide consumers with historical pricing information.

For more information please contact:
Richard Houghton or Kate Hartley

Carrot Communications Ltd
Tel: 020 7903 5103 or 07803 178 037
Email: richard.houghton@carrotcomms.co.uk

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