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Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by kalleboo on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:16PM (#26138659)
Sweden has prisjakt.nu, and Japan has kakaku.com that serve the same purpose, they're both great! It's so nice to be able to drill down into any product in any product category (for kakaku this is not just tech products but contact lenses, credit cards, movers, electricity providers, car insurance, phone plans, etc) using the specs you want, and then sort by intelligently selected columns like $/TB for a harddisk.

Amazon attempts to do some product categorization but it doesn't work at all - even when they have the category you want to filter on the results are usually wrong, and the sort options are bad and marred by their ads and recommendations.

Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by jug on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:44AM (#26141397)
Prisjakt (Pricespy) is very deep in Swedish online shopping culture. I wonder if Amazon realizes what they are up to. It does make their website feel superfluous to me and more like what what I'd expect from a company of the year 2010.

What I like most about Prisjakt is that they don't try to second guess what I want given a basic search phrase. Instead, Prisjakt gives me the categories to drill down into tables. Sortable and filterable tables with product name, price, rating, and category-specific columns (like storage size and $/GB for hard drives). The filters run DEEP. If you're looking for a HDR display, you can be happy with a "HDR" filter but also opt into DisplayHDR 1000 certified displays with 120+ Hz. For the entire Sweden because every decent Swedish retail chain and store is on this website, and they have everything between solid state drives and shoes in their database. If you look for watches you have filters and columns for e.g. automatic, solar powered watches, etc.

Amazon is very, very different. They're also a front to various stores but try to make it appear like THEY are the store when they are really not. Prisjakt instead just has this razor sharp focus on making you in charge of the data and forming decisions based on that, and then when the decision is made, presents you a list of the stores with that product and their respective prices. You are in control and maybe you prefer a certain one because you're a long time user there and like them.

So Amazon becomes a "fake store front" (like Sweden's CDON) and Prisjakt is more like just a database. One optimized for usability and presentation.

Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by aasasd on Monday February 15, 2021 @08:12AM (#26142384)
Yeah, that sounds pretty much like a description of Yandex Market, plus YM also has good user reviews. I regularly learned from reviews what I might want from a product, for both functionality and quality.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by systemvoltage on Monday February 15, 2021 @04:51PM (#26147950)
> It does make their website feel superfluous to me and more like what what I'd expect from a company of the year 2010.

That is a wonderful feature, not a bug. I wish all websites would go back to 2010 era.

The usability alone of Prisjakt is incredible. It's not in-your-face like the shit that's being invented in 2020s.

Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by RasmusLarsen on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:04PM (#26138943)
I don't know the exact list, but pricespy (prisjakt) is in a lot of countries. I have used .no/.se/.co.uk previously and they all seem to be at about the same level for their respective countries.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by universa1 on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:19AM (#26139705)
Sounds a lot like geizhals.de - price comparison site with detailed info on products, best for tech products though
Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by tatami on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:38AM (#26139804)
Geizhals is amazing! I started using it for price comparison almost 15 years ago, but nowadays I use it mainly as a database to filter for products which fit my needs and are available.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere d... by Jon_Lowtek on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:55AM (#26139909)
it's an awesome product search focused on depth not breadth. This site lets you filter headsets by connectors and dog food by taste.