Price Comparision on the Move

by editor@text4price.com @ 04 April 2006 - 18:12:25

Text4price is the first UK based shopping search engine to provide price comparison results by SMS, delivering the best available deals on electronic products and appliances to shoppers anytime anywhere.

The text4price SMS service uniquely returns a plain English message, giving the lowest price found for a specific product from the store which has stock available, rather than a random retailer.

In less than a minute a consumer in the high street can see the best deal amongst hundreds of merchants via their mobile phone.

Shoppers in the UK send an SMS with the word “find” then product name to 84070. Searches can contain specific product codes or generic keywords and phrases such as ‘ipod mini’ or ’17inch Lcd Tv’.

Text4price has developed software algorithiums which construct each SMS results to fit the space available in a text message in order to present the user with the most appropriate information.

This facility is designed to improve the relevancy for shoppers and improve the mobile shopping experience. In addition to the SMS search functionality, text4price features a simple to understand and easy to use web based interface.

Users can register online at www.text4price.com for additional services such as a personalized and automatically updated shopping list.

"Our goal is to become the first choice for customers comparing prices and products when out shopping in the high street and away from their computer”, Said Simon Douglas, co-founder of text4price. “I love the fact that no matter where I am I can find the best prices online easily and quickly through my mobile phone", Said Simon.

In the future high street shops will no longer keep their products on the premises to any significant degree. Instead they will become places of entertainment.

For this reason Text4price plans to introduce greater shopper interactivity via mobile devices to bridge the ever widening divide between the high street and online retail experience.

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