Shopping Tips
How to Perform Online Price-Checks when You're in a Store
Be prepared. Simply complete a one-time setup at a web site, bring your cellphone with you on your shopping spree, you'll be able to do online price-checks from your cellphone anywhere you go.
Follow these steps and you'll be able to perform price checks on the most non-trivial items in the store:
1. Sign Up For Free Frucall Service
Go to Frucall.com and sign up for a free account with your cellphone number and your email address once and confirm your sign-up as instructed. Frucall currently operates using 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.
2. Call 1-888-DO-FRUCALL
Wherever you are, when you want to perform an online price-check, call 1-888-DO-FRUCALL from your phone. Memorize this number in your cellphone for speed-dial in the future.
3. Enter Product Barcode
The barcode of the product you want should be either be 10 or 12 digits. Just key in the barcode of the product when prompted by Frucall. Within seconds, Frucall will give you some price options online for your references.
Listen to the prices online and factor online prices in for your offline shopping. The coverage of this free service might be limited by the standardization of the product barcodes. Though you may not really need such a price-check, it would be nice to have when you sense impulse shopping in-store next time. Do a price check: it doesn't hurt, does it?
last revised on 2006-11-09
by Charles Gwa
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