Description
OR try SAVE BENJIS+ (plus). It has a BUILT-IN BARCODE SCANNER, and ONLY costs $1.00 more (Feb 5-7 Same Price). To find it, type "save benjis" in the search field and choose "Save Benjis+".
This entry level version of Save Benjis doesn't have a barcode scanner.
"Best App for Price Comparisons, Save Benjis" -- Best iPhone Apps, O'Reilly, available at your local bookstore.
Save Benjis gives you the best internet prices while you shop in the real world. Compare prices on your iPhone (or iPod Touch) for millions of products from hundreds of stores. When you find a better price using Save Benjis you can buy the item right from the app. It's a great way to save money.
Sometimes there is no substitute for shopping in a physical store. You get to try an item out or try it on, but in today’s economy you can’t afford not to get the best price, and online price comparison shopping (with coupons) is the best way to guarantee that. Save Benjis gives you the best of both worlds, by letting you do a worldwide price check.
Search By:
product name, product number, bar code (UPC, EAN & ISBN), manufacturer, author, actor, publisher etc.
Product categories:
Appliances, Baby Supplies, Books, Cameras, Car Parts, Computers, CDs, DVDs, Games, Tools, Toys, TVs etc.
Coupons and specials not available on all products.
What's New in Version 1.7
- Adds Google product search for barcode searches
- Various fixes
Customer Reviews
Well designed & responsive.
I was hoping for an application just like this when the app store opened -- and here it is.
The overall flow makes a lot of sense -- type in what you're shopping for, get prices/reviews/information, and once you've found a price or seller you like, drill into detail on that seller.
It would be even cooler if the application could scan barcodes directly -- typing the name of the book I'm looking at can be a slow process. But I'm sure they'll get there in a future version. For now, the overall feel of this application is quite good -- and the price is hard to argue with!
Looks Great
This app looks un-believable. It has a great interface, and should be recognized. A great alternative if you don't like eBay. Sort of like Sherlock eh?
Could grow from a good app to a great app.....
a few ways to make this a better app:
1) Combine it with the free app "barcode" which will take a picture of a barcode and decode it. That way you can just take a picture of a product's UPC in a store and it will look it up.
2) Control the 'stores' it chooses to search against
3) add geo-aware capabilities to identify how far away a comparable product may be from your location.
4) add concatinated reviews. If I know I want a new dvd player, it would be great to be able to bring up the reviews for both side by side for easy comparison, beyond just price.
5) add shipping / tax info for total cost.
6) be able to 'save' searches to rerun, or review again at a later time (hard to remember a upc symbol once you've left a store)
7) add 'triggers' to move this from a reactive (you give it info, it returns results) to a proactive tool. Would be cool if my phone alerted me when a store fell below a certain price point on a product I had been interested in
8) create 'baskets' of goods. If I'm building a computer, and have specific parts I'm interested in, compare buying all of the parts from their respective cheapest outlets, or the price difference to single-source it at the lowest cost retailer.
You get the idea..... I'm waiting for one of these 'coupon / price comparison' tools to finally close the deal and give me true price / product transparency.
- Category: Finance
- Updated Feb 10, 2010
- Current Version: 1.7
- 0.4 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Sol Robots L.L.C.
- © 2009 Sol Robots L.L.C.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.
