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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5376)	1/20/1999 11:13:00 AM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 14778

pricewatch vs. shopper.com and buy.com Clarence, In general, I find that shopper.com does a much better (more comprehensive, more current, etc.) a job of ranking highly specific retail items (like your monitor) than pricewatch. Pricewatch, OTOH, generally does better with true commodity items like RAM and CPUs, as well as OEM items. Some have praised killerap on this thread, but I don't find it as useful as these other two (could just be my preference.) Interestingly, several credible sources (WSJ, PC world, and others I can't recall) have cited buycomp bigwigs as saying that they aren't trying to profit at all on the products--they want to make their cut on the on-site advertising (which, IMHO, is done pretty un-obnoxiously) for the brands that they sell. This claim gains added credence when one compares their prices with onsale's "at cost" merchandise.