Campusi.com allows you to search over 70 bookstores and 60,000 sellers from a single search engine. The result: savings! Sometime big savings. For example, last night I was about to purchase Mitch Tolluch's Windows Server Hacks for $16.47 plus $3.99 for shipping. Total cost: $20.46.
To their own undoing, Amazon had an advertiser link to bookpool.com for the same book, so I thought I would see what bookpool.com had it priced at before committing to my Amazon purchase. However, something was wrong with BookPool's website last night that prevented me from accessing it. As a result, I decided to Google the ISBN number for Mitch's book, which is where I discovered Campusi.com's book search engine. By putting the ISBN number in I was able to fairly quickly scan the pricing options for Windows Server Hacks and find it available from Half.com for only $9.99 plus $2.79 shipping, for a total cost of $12.78 or a $7.68 savings over Amazon.com!
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Now, it's worth mentioning that as I write this the cheapest current price I can find on Campusi.com is $16.93. This is because inventory within the online stores and through affiliate sellers is constantly changing and updating. But, if you have a book purchase to make online, why not check out Campusi.com first and save yourself some money.
(By the way, you can also use the Campusi.com search engine to compare prices for Movies, Music, and Video Games!)
Posted
Dec 14 2004, 06:30 AM
by
lduncan