Competitor Price Compairson?

[TwoEyesOfBlue]

I have several competitors using osc with the same model numbers and prices

from time to time I would like to be able to leech a list of model numbers and prices from their

sites to compare.

 

Does anyone know of any easy way to do this? to get a plain text file of these items to put into excel?

 

I have both windows and linux tools if needed.

 

Thanks in advance

 

TwoEyesOfBlue

[♥Vger]

Erm?? That's called 'stealing' if I remember correctly.

 

Vger

[TwoEyesOfBlue]

Erm?? That's called 'stealing' if I remember correctly.

 

Vger

 

You are very helpful.... Thanks.... But I take exception.

It is information that is already publicly available and published.

[♥Vger]

You can take exception all you like, but what you were asking was "to be able to leech a list of model numbers and prices from their

sites".

 

The only way you could do that would be to use a "harvester" to grab all of those details - and that to me, and to most people, is stealing. You wouldn't end up in Court for it, but at the very least it is highly unethical.

 

I doubt that anyone here will help you, but you could try a spammer or hacker forum, because they use the sort of information harvester you're looking for.

 

Vger

[playcraft]

I have several competitors using osc with the same model numbers and prices

from time to time I would like to be able to leech a list of model numbers and prices from their

sites to compare.

 

Does anyone know of any easy way to do this? to get a plain text file of these items to put into excel?

 

I have both windows and linux tools if needed.

 

Thanks in advance

 

TwoEyesOfBlue

Are you trying to price check or what exactly are you wanting to do with this data?

[lindsayanng]

the RIGHT way to do it would be to submit your site to froogle where it will be placed in a list of all competitors products and prices..

[Guest]

the RIGHT way to do it would be to submit your site to froogle where it will be placed in a list of all competitors products and prices..

 

Yeah, you can check your price competitiveness that way.

 

You also could just look at your competitors websites and check out their prices. There's nothing wrong with that.

[g4joe]

Hi,

 

You might want to check out www.insitetrack.co.uk

[Guest]

if i'm not mistaken, what you're looking for is something like a "scraper". i think there may be a few ebay-related contributions out there that achieve similar things. i'd take one of those apart before anything. anyone sneaky enough to figure out how to do this likely won't release it .. for obvious reasons. :)

 

i always ensure i list my product models & manufacturer names are mixed in the >description< when needed, to avoid competitors combating my content.

if they (competitors) can't put forth that extra 30 second effort, they deserve it!

[kerm1t]

I don't see how that constitutes stealing at all - if you think it does, you're very naive. I wouldn't say that's in unethical either - it would be foolish not to take any interest in how much your rivals were selling identical products for. It might be a bit rude, as you could end up hammering your competitor's server. Other than that, I don't see the problem.