How Beat My Price can save you money when shopping online
Bespoke offers tool can negotiate a better deal, just for you.
Fancy getting the best possible deal on something you want to buy online, without having to search around different retailer websites?
With Beat My Price from deal site bespoke offers, you may be able to do just that.
How does Beat My Price work?
When you find something that you want to buy, whether it’s a book, a computer game or a TV, all you have to do is paste the URL of the product into the Beat My Price tool on the bespoke offers page.
Bespoke offers then goes off to try to find you a better deal. And what’s more, the deal it comes up with is just for you.
It heads off to contact the retailers it works with to put together the best bespoke offer (see what they did there?) and then emails you when it has an offer in place.
But be warned, the deal won’t be around forever – you’ll only have a limited period, of perhaps around 10 hours, in order to take advantage of the deal.
Putting it to the test
But what sort of savings can you really get from a service like Beat My Price? We decided to put it to the test, with five products, to see what savings it could deliver.
- Canon EOS Digital SLR Camera (currently selling at £268.25 on Amazon)
- Back from The Brink paperback book by Alistair Darling (currently £4.79 at Amazon)
- Batman Arkham Knight computer game for the PS4 (currently £32.85 at SimplyGames)
- The Imitation Game DVD (currently £8.23 on Amazon)
- Maxi-Cosi Elea Pushchair (currently £299.99 on Amazon)
Unfortunately, you can only submit URLs from ‘big retailers’ so I had to find the computer game on Amazon and use that URL, rather than the link from SimplyGames.
How did Beat My Price get on?
The first offer came through within a couple of hours on the Maxi-Cosi pushchair. I could get it for £284.33 – a 5.2% discount, or £15.66 on the price I found on Amazon. I had 24 hours in which to take advantage of the deal.
After that, the offers flooded in – I had offers for all five products within 10 hours of putting in my request.
With Back from the Brink, I could get it for £4.22 from Blacks Bargain Books, an 11.8% discount (or 57p). I could get the Imitation Game DVD for £7.23 from FindPrice, a saving of more than 12% (or £1).
The Batman game would set me back £27.70 from GameSeek, a saving of £2.16 or 7.2%. As for the digital camera, I could save almost £21 by buying it from Fireworks Merchant for £257.34, a 7.5% discount.
So in total, by waiting a couple of hours and making use of Beat My Price I was able to secure savings of between 5% and 12.1%. Not bad!
Exactly how long I would have in order to take advantage of the deals varied significantly though. At the time of writing it ranged from four hours for the book to 20 hours for the camera.
Does anybody else offer a similar service?
Beat My Price isn’t the first such money-saving service. You can do pretty much the same thing with Flubit.com. It’s worth noting that with Flubit you have to use Amazon links, much as I had to with Beat My Price.
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