Shopping on the Internet offers many advantages over local shopping. One of the best advantages are price comparisons and the ability to shop at multiple online shopping sites without leaving your home.
Google Chrome, like Mozilla Firefox, supports shopping enthusiasts with extensions that offer all sorts of benefits, from price comparisons, to coupon codes or notification once an item’s price drops to an acceptable level.
This guide looks at some of the best Chrome shopping extensions, that offer all of the above and much more to the online shopper.
Ookong for Amazon
ookong
Ookong specializes in enhancing the search experience of Amazon.com users. It offers three main features, a built in Amazon search, a price history chart that is accessible from search and Amazon pages, and the ability to track price changes on the site.
Coupon Detector
coupon detector
The Coupon Detector extension will indicate the availability of coupons on shopping sites, which in turn often offer huge savings on those websites. The extension is only working with US-stores.
InvisibleHand
invisible hand
Invisible Hand is a price comparison extension, that will automatically compare prices of items, and notify the user if a product is available cheaper elsewhere. It currently supports over 100 retailers in the US, UK and Germany, with other nations like Canada coming soon.
The Camelizer
camelizer
The Camelizer is primarily a price tracking extensions that is compatible with shopping sites such as Amazon, BestBuy or Newegg. The extension automatically displays an icon on supported pages that leads to the price history chart when pressed. Offers options to sign up for price drop alerts.
PriceTrace
pricetrace
PriceTrace offers a similar feature set as The Camelizer, but offers support for more online stores than the previously mentioned extension. Stores currently supported include Amazon, Newegg, Walmart, Buy.com or Bestbuy.
The extension offers a product price history chart that includes price comparisons, and price drop alerts.
Chrome Currency Converter
chrome currency converter
While not a shopping extension per se, Chrome Currency Converter can be very useful for users who like to shop in foreign online stores. The extension can automatically convert 37 different currencies into one selected primary currency.
Amazon Wish List
amazon whishlist
The extension can be used to add products from any website to an Amazon wish list.
Price Blink
Price Blink offers merchant coupons, a lowest price finder and product reviews while shopping on the web. The service currently checks more than 3000 US Retailers for prices. Displays shipping charges next to price comparison results for an effective way of determining the cheapest price.
Deals
deals
Deals finds coupon codes and bargains on the website the user is currently on. Supports shopping.com for price comparison, and shopping sites such as Craigslist, Amazon or eBay.
Price Droid
pricedroid
Price Droid is an elegant price comparison extension that supports hundreds of shopping sites. Displays the lowest price, and a selection of other retailers that offer the item as well including their prices.
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camelizer does a LOT more than pricetrace. there’s no comparison between the two, really.
He’s right. Camelizer supports many websites and offers plenty of good options. And its counterpart website by the makers of camelizer: pricepricebaby is useful too.
Please check new “eBay Window” chrome extension.
It allows you search and view eBay products from a single window.
It was developed for personal shopping use, so it was developed to be as easy as possible
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