Hi

Can you please tell me how websites such as mysimon.com, kelkoo.co.uk,
and shopping.com earn money? Do they add a percentage/fee onto my
purchase price or simply charge the merchant a fee for listing with
them?

Is the technology for delivering price comparisons online (in an
instant)complicated? How expensive is it to build this type of back
end into a new website?

Any answers would be most welcome.

Thank you 

Paul Brewster

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Request for Question Clarification by keystroke-ga on 02 Aug 2006 04:14 PDT

I can tell you that most of those sites get paid for advertising on
the site and for referral business. On Amazon you can get people to
click through your personally identifiable link to the Amazon store
where you get paid a % of the profit that is made after a customer
makes a purchase.

Hope this helps somewhere to answering your question.
--Keystroke-ga

business model looks like this:

1) monthly fee for listing and/or
2) Pay-Per-Click (when you click on product to see more info on
buyer's site) and/or
3) small % fee for succesful redirection (ended with payment),

as for as technology:
1) you have to make XML file with description of all your products
(with prices). This file is uploaded automatycily once a day (more or
less). XML is some kind of standard, but in some situations there is
other synchronization method.

best regards,
Sylwester