PriceQuotes.com: Compare Prices Online for Just About Anything

Most people are familiar by now with online auction sites where you can buy virtually anything you could ever want in a million years. There are also buckets of online shopping sites for clothing, footwear, housewares, toys, books, music, and even obscure things like custom-built models of World War II submarines. Anything you might fancy is easy to locate and purchase online. But what if you want to buy something directly from a dealer who will bid against other dealers for your business? Retail stores and local businesses have to compete for your business because they’re all in your local community. They compete with each other by running ads in the paper and distributing coupons through the mail. But all that online shopping sites can do is offer good prices and sales within their own site—the only way they compete is by offering attractive prices.

In order to compare prices from dealers on the Internet, you’d have to visit numerous sites, jot down notes about pricing, and compare your notes. Doing that could take forever, particularly if you’re looking for something that involves a lot of detailed options. So what’s an online shopper to do? Visit PriceQuotes.com, of course! PriceQuotes.com was created in 1998 by Dr. Michael Samet, the CEO of Referral Technology, Inc. The sited is "dedicated to helping consumers educate themselves and easily locate the kind of deal they are looking for while shopping online." According to the home page of the site, PriceQuotes.com " aims to optimize the experiences Internet shoppers have while shopping around for the best possible value before making an investment by offering them information and choice - for free!"

The site is able to offer this service by giving site visitors lists of options to select from, based on criteria they supply. Doing this dramatically reduces the time required to search through site after site comparing prices and options. And because PriceQuotes.com is a free site, there is no commitment on the part of visitors to the site. PriceQuotes.com doesn’t actually sell anything. The site has no salespeople that will contact you; in fact, the site allows you to bypass commissioned salespeople altogether and instead refer you directly to dealers who have special promotions and offers that might interest you. They direct you to terrific deals being offered by some of the top established companies, both Internet-based and brick-and-mortar. PriceQuotes.com allows you to compare prices on products and services such as new cars, used cars, automobile warranties, car rentals, home improvement estimates, life and car insurance, mortgage refinancing, and hotel rooms.

For some categories PriceQuotes.com provides quotes on a product or service, and for other categories, they provide you with links to companies that are viable prospects for the item you are interested in purchasing. According to Dr. Samet and PriceQuotes.com, "We firmly believe that an educated customer will be the most satisfied customer, and that education begins with choice. We have made it our mission to offer you just that."