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Can you share an example where that is the case? From what i figured in the past, they want you to believe that is the case as they earn their affiliate commis

Can you share an example where that is the case? From what i figured in the past, they want you to believe that is the case as they earn their affiliate commission from you clicking through - however, years of ordering hardware especially avoiding to click and going the "extra mile" of going manually to the respective website and searching for the product there yielded exactly the same price as advertised on Geizhals.

caeruleus 5y ago
One shop that I noticed was doing this is csv-direct.de. First visit a product page, e. g.: https://www.csv-direct.de/artinfo.php?artnr=AGX1428619&KATEGORIE=2721 https://www.csv-direct.de/artinfo.php?artnr=AGX1428619&KATEG... (758,93€) then look at the geizhals price: https://geizhals.de/ubiquiti-unifiswitch-enterprise-24-rackmount-gigabit-managed-switch-usw-enterprise-24-poe-a2573745.html#offerlist https://geizhals.de/ubiquiti-unifiswitch-enterprise-24-rackm... (748,09€) After you have visited the page from geizhals, the lower price will stay even on direct links, for that product only (until you clear local data/cookies).
- moepstar 5y ago
  That's interesting and you're right. Never happend upon this behavior until now. Incidentally, i've bought RAM from CSV-direct sometime last year, after getting an alert from Geizhals... not sure if i clicked through with the link from the email, the price however did match...
  - caeruleus 5y ago
    Haha, actually the reason I noticed was because I was shopping for RAM at the beginning of this year. The product above was just my first random thought, it seems to be very regular there. FWIW, it's enough to just set the parameter &pva=geizhals2 in the GET request for the product page once. Could be fun to see how regular it is.
adrian_b 5y ago
I have experienced this a large number of times, that when coming from geizhals or from a few other price comparison sites I got a better price, some times even close to 10%, on various online shops for computer components. For example a shop where I have seen this almost always was jacob.de. However, I have not bought many computer parts during the last year, so I do not know if this still happens today. A couple of years ago, it was certainly very frequent.
oezi 5y ago
I realized with Bueromarkt Boettcher, because with them the price delta for some office supplies like printer toner is quite huge. https://www.bueromarkt-ag.de/ https://www.bueromarkt-ag.de/

caeruleus 5y ago

One shop that I noticed was doing this is csv-direct.de. First visit a product page, e. g.: https://www.csv-direct.de/artinfo.php?artnr=AGX1428619&KATEGORIE=2721 https://www.csv-direct.de/artinfo.php?artnr=AGX1428619&KATEG... (758,93€) then look at the geizhals price: https://geizhals.de/ubiquiti-unifiswitch-enterprise-24-rackmount-gigabit-managed-switch-usw-enterprise-24-poe-a2573745.html#offerlist https://geizhals.de/ubiquiti-unifiswitch-enterprise-24-rackm... (748,09€) After you have visited the page from geizhals, the lower price will stay even on direct links, for that product only (until you clear local data/cookies).

moepstar 5y ago
That's interesting and you're right. Never happend upon this behavior until now. Incidentally, i've bought RAM from CSV-direct sometime last year, after getting an alert from Geizhals... not sure if i clicked through with the link from the email, the price however did match...
- caeruleus 5y ago
  Haha, actually the reason I noticed was because I was shopping for RAM at the beginning of this year. The product above was just my first random thought, it seems to be very regular there. FWIW, it's enough to just set the parameter &pva=geizhals2 in the GET request for the product page once. Could be fun to see how regular it is.

adrian_b 5y ago

I have experienced this a large number of times, that when coming from geizhals or from a few other price comparison sites I got a better price, some times even close to 10%, on various online shops for computer components. For example a shop where I have seen this almost always was jacob.de. However, I have not bought many computer parts during the last year, so I do not know if this still happens today. A couple of years ago, it was certainly very frequent.

oezi 5y ago

I realized with Bueromarkt Boettcher, because with them the price delta for some office supplies like printer toner is quite huge. https://www.bueromarkt-ag.de/ https://www.bueromarkt-ag.de/