PriceSpy Ireland closing down

bertie4evr

Just got the email to say they're shutting up shop tomorrow. Are there any alternatives for Ireland?

marcbrophy

bertie4evr wrote: »

Just got the email to say they're shutting up shop tomorrow. Are there any alternatives for Ireland?

I wonder is it Brexit related, as the .co.uk site is staying online?

I don't know of any alternative, big loss to me as I always used it

Creamy Goodness

they're a nordic company, if anything it'd make more sense to close the uk site

bertie4evr

It's probably because there weren't many Irish retailers on board?

Dave..M

That's unfortunate

harr

Sorry to see this go, would often get good discounts especially on clothes and small electric goods.

Dave..M

Was especially useful to see if a sale price was genuine, staged or just plain made up. Due to the lax / non existent consumer protection around this area compared to our neighbors, we needed more of these things rather than less, or indeed none at all as will be the case now.

suave.4u

can't think of any alternative. The .ie site was not that great when compared to the .co.uk one.

marcbrophy

suave.4u wrote: »

can't think of any alternative. The .ie site was not that great when compared to the .co.uk one.

The UK one is staying put!

lertsnim

Bollocks. That was a very handy site.

Tails142

Makes no sense to me as it was a handy site, it wouldn't surprise me if Harvey Norman or the likes was giving them legal trouble over their price scraping as it shows how fake their sales prices are

Might'nt be illegal but that doesn't stop a solicitor writing letters giving them a head ache

arsconica

It's a real pity. I had noticed that there were very few Irish vendors actually advertising there lately, so it's probably just a case of a business decision based on profitability.

donnyvegas

Anyone interested in opening a similar site? Might try do that tomorrow, if I have time.

Darc19

Dave..M wrote: »

Was especially useful to see if a sale price was genuine, staged or just plain made up. Due to the lax / non existent consumer protection around this area compared to our neighbors, we needed more of these things rather than less, or indeed none at all as will be the case now.

You think the uk have stronger rules? Seriously?


In the UK a chain of stores can put a couch or anything else for sale in just one of their stores for a couple of weeks and then claim massive discounts in their other stores based on that one store.

Or the best one - "after offer price" WTF?

fritzelly

donnyvegas wrote: »

Anyone interested in opening a similar site? Might try do that tomorrow, if I have time.

They are just basically scraping sites for prices, not that hard to set up and run. Weird to close down
Shouldn't matter what sites show on their site, maybe there is just no revenue to justify the cost which would be very low

On hols at the mó but hit me up next Monday, have my own server for hosting and etc

Leo Demidov

donnyvegas wrote:

Anyone interested in opening a similar site? Might try do that tomorrow, if I have time.

Do it.

Ning

fritzelly wrote: »

They are just basically scraping sites for prices, not that hard to set up and run.

:rolleyes:

donnyvegas

Leo Demidov wrote: »

Do it.

Suggest a good name. Should be punny

Dave..M

Darc19 wrote: »

You think the uk have stronger rules? Seriously?


In the UK a chain of stores can put a couch or anything else for sale in just one of their stores for a couple of weeks and then claim massive discounts in their other stores based on that one store.

Or the best one - "after offer price" WTF?

They have Watchdog

Leo Demidov

donnyvegas wrote:

Suggest a good name. Should be punny

PriceGuy

Dr. Steve Brule

donnyvegas wrote: »

Suggest a good name. Should be punny

donnydeals.com

& it's available...

Darc19

Dave..M wrote: »

They have Watchdog

We've joe Duffy

cros13

Google Shopping works.... does the same job minus the price history,

121dki5

Anyone find something similar or create their own scraper?