ShopParadiso – A Site To Help You Shop Better
May 21, 2009 by Isaac Timothy T
ShopParadiso is a price comparison shopping search engine and local retail store deals and vouchers aggregator.
During this tough economic times, a well developed site with an extensive database of product and price listings will definitely be a useful tool to help stretch the purchasing dollars. ShopParadiso aims to be such a site that provides information gathered from both online and off-line retailers.
By default, the site displays the listings in ascending order of price for each individual product. It could be useful if the site’s design would also aid in the comparison of specifications, features and accessories for each store’s offering of a product.
One of the early problems encountered with the site is that listings do not get updated when the product is no longer found on an external site.
Based on a casual perusal of the sites linked to, another problem with the site is that most of the stores listed probably would not give a potential customer any sort of confidence. I wondered if I would buy from any of the stores listed. It is important that a site like ShopParadiso does not just provide the consumer with price information but also convince the consumer that a store is a credible one to purchase from.
Frankly speaking, I wonder if there is still a need for mega-aggregation sites like ShopParadiso which try to cover all product categories? Might consumers be better served if there were more sites that just covered a single vertical? From a site design perspective, it could also be better to create sites with different interfaces and information architecture for each class of products.
What are your thoughts on such aggregation sites and do you know of any other such sites that aim to cover the Singaporean market?
About The Author
Isaac Timothy T - Product Manager
Sometimes writer, sometimes programmer, full time behind-the-scenes guy, Isaac is responsible for keeping SGE running and ensuring the success of SGE's projects. While not working on SGE, he is running his own start-up that hopes to change how we look at the simple checklist. He plays football and is eagerly awaiting the day he can support Singapore at the World Cup.
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