Have you heard of 1-888-Frucall? Say you're at Best Buy and you find the perfect t.v., book, or cd - how can you check to see if you are getting the best deal? Well, simply dial 1-866-FRU-CALL. Enter the bar code on your phone. Frucall searches the internet for the best online prices. You can listen to the prices, order the item from your phone right then, get product information, or bookmark it for the future. Best of all, it's free!
From their website:
"Headquartered in Irvine, California, Frucall, Inc. is a software services company dedicated to delivering personalized information from the Internet to user's mobile device through a unified voice, text, and rich media interface. The company has pioneered the development of voice-based information delivery systems for online price comparison engines.
Frucall currently operates a free, voice-based price-comparison shopping service for consumers that lets them hear current online prices, compare, rate and purchase products using any phone, anytime, anywhere. Frucall blends the benefits of in-store shopping with the frugal and flexible nature of Internet shopping, providing consumers with a unique and exceptionally convenient shopping experience. Frucall's unique patent pending solution provides users with a highly-efficient means to access web-based XML data through DTMF handset entry and IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems. This information is integrated with web-based applications, and shopping systems to deliver a consumer-friendly, personalized, voice and web portal interface.
With the launch of Frucall in the spring of 2006, the company has succeeded in creating an entirely new dynamic for point-of-sale purchasing and decision making. Frucall's technology infrastructure will be used by advertisers and brands looking for the advantage and exceptional efficiency of focused, contextual, one-to-one messaging. In the coming months, the company intends to expand its service offerings to include additional consumer and enterprise voice-based, web information services. "
Sounds pretty good to me.
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Sounds very interesting. My only problem would be that you can never tell what shipping and handling charges are going to be with internet purchases. More than once I have thought I had a good deal and then when S & h charges added the deal doesn't look as good. I have had a bad experience with one site but since then I go through Amazon.com marketplace and have had no problems.
Good way to comparison shop, though.
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