Suggestions on stores to add? Ideas on how we can make the Ultimate Pricechecker better? Add your comments here. We are especially interested in hearing whether users are interested in seeing a Canadian or UK version of the Pricechecker.

To use the Ultimate Pricechecker, you need Firefox 2.0 or higher, available here.

If you want to see what version of Firefox you currently have, click "Help" --> "About Mozilla Firefox".
 

1. Open Firefox and come back here.
2. The free Ultimate Pricechecker comes as a search plugin or as a toolbar. Both provide the same service - so choose the one you like better.
    

You can add our search plugin here. It will install the "Howtobewebsmart Pricechecker" in the upper right-hand search box. Select the "Howtobewebsmart Pricechecker" by clicking on the small black down arrow in the search field.

You can download the pricechecker toolbar here. Click on the "Install" button. After the toolbar is installed, you will need to restart Firefox.

1. Run a search for any product you want to price check using the Ultimate Pricechecker search plugin or toolbar.

2. You will see a page listing four sites:

• Shopping.com (shopping comparison site)
• Shopzilla.com (shopping comparison site)
• eBay (world's largest online auction site)
• Amazon (world's most popular online retailer)

3. Check any sites you want to search. Or uncheck any sites you do not want to search.

4. In a couple seconds, your search will run through all the selected sites. Each site's results will open in a new tab.

5. Congrats! You've now installed the most efficient bargain shopping tool on the web.

Have you ever wanted to find the best deal on an item, but didn't want to spend the time looking for it? Us too. So we got to thinking: What would be the fastest, most efficient way to price check an item?

We decided the best way to do it would be to create a search function within Firefox. So we put together a search plugin and a toolbar. Both do essentially the same thing. Which one you use just depends on your preference.

The idea was simple. We found four sites that scour the web's stores. Two are the web's highest-rated shopping comparison sites - Shopzilla.com and Shopping.com. These sites run your search through databases of hundreds of stores. They give you the stores' prices, so you can quickly see who has the best deal.

Then we realized we wanted our search to give us used results too, so we added eBay to our list.

Finally, we didn't want to leave out the web's best known online retailer, Amazon. So we added it as well.

We wanted to make the search simple and effective. Search for a product using the Ultimate Pricechecker, and you get a couple seconds to decide where you want to "price check" your item. Check all the sites you want to search. Your product search will run through all the checked sites. Each checked site's results will open in a new tab.

The result: you've price checked your item across hundreds of stores with one efficient search, all from within your browser. Hopefully your bargain hunting has become easier now :-P.

If you are looking for other neat stuff, come check out Howtobewebsmart.com.