Thanks man (I assume you’re a male geek…) for the posting.  Feel free to shoot us over more feedback as we continue to build our system into a more robust crawler and reporter.   Always warms our heart to hear we’re attacking a needed domain.  To address your concerns, we do work on a natural language processing backend to account for human-related errors but in any event, for a large pool of points, we believe this is going to be negligible.

PriceFad allows you to track the price trends on your favorite products - Gizmo Insider
I have this problem of tracking prices on various products for months and months before actually pulling the gun on the purchase. Yes, this doesn’t seem very weird for a techno-nerd like myself, however I always try to find the best price possible. So when I heard about this new website called PriceFad I knew it was right up my alley.

…I surfed around the website for a little bit this afternoon and am pretty impressed with the website. Going by my searches it looks as if the website “crawls” various deal websites such as FatWallet.com for keywords and then creates the “data” from the posts it finds. The only downside I could see from this is if its automated in its data collecting, then the data might be skewed by people who mis-type or fake deals on various shopping retailers. I didn’t test this out as I don’t want to get flamed/banned from any of these deal forums, so hopefully the people over at PriceFad worked something into their algorithm to account for these types of posts.

But all in all, PriceFab is a very solid website for those who addicted to price-tracking and I defintely recommend checking it out when making your next purchase.

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