Boddit: Bargain Shopping Made Easy
Boddit is a new bargain shopping site designed to help you find the best deals on the internet. One part search engine, one part price tracker, Boddit offers some nice features that could help you save some money during the holiday shopping period.
In my experience Boddit works best for casual browsing rather than targeted searching of specific products, but your mileage may vary.
Boddit works by pulling in prices from a number of big discount internet retailers like Dealnews, Slickdeals, Fatwallet and many more. Rather than searching all those sites individually Boddit lets you search them all at once.
Boddit also offers what they call “web search, Boddit-style” which amounts to creating a frame with a toolbar on the left of your browser window and performing searches of other sites in another frame. Normally I hate anything that creates frames in my browser, but Boddit’s was actually helpful and made searching multiple sites much quicker.
For instance with a single click I was able to jump from searching Pricegrabber to Froogle to Yahoo! Shopping and more. Unfortunately because Boddit apparently sends the search info as POST data, you back button will warn you about resubmitting a form, which is annoying, but worth the trade off in my opinion.
Boddit will also search and browse auctions on Ebay, Half.com and Yahoo! Auctions. You can also search Craig’s List, but unfortunately this only seems to work when you start from the Boddit homepage.
Boddit also has a section called “Extras” that tracks various coupons and freebies available around the web, with deals range from printable coupons to mail-in rebate offers.
One thing Boddit lacks is RSS feeds for tracking prices, but even without them, Boddit offers an impressive array of search options and might well save you both time and money this holiday season.
