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The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one. https://geizhals.de https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly spec

The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one. https://geizhals.de https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things. Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy. For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.

Tepix 4y ago
Geizhals is an amazing website. If you send them corrections or suggestions they will always respond. My only criticism of geizhals is that you can't see items that aren't for sale anyonger unless you search for their names directly. For example you can't use geizhals to get a list of 5k monitors models sold in the last years (most of them are no longer on sale).
- cookiengineer 4y ago
  I agree. In the past I've looked for potential upgrades of my outdated hardware and seen that they still list them on their website, but only if you already know the specific part numbers or model numbers of the hardware you're looking for. Something like a "discovery" view would be nice where you could specify your requirements beforehand and then look for e.g. compatible parts that could be interesting.
- ghusbands 4y ago
  Have you sent them that criticism or a related suggestion? You could suggest that they add a default-on filter for 'commercially available' or such.
  - Tepix 4y ago
    Yes i've discussed it with them, they are unwilling to offer this service at the moment. I reckon the database is their crown jewel and they don't want to make it too easy to dump it.
musha68k 4y ago
AFAIR it’s also an example of a well managed perl code base.
genezeta 4y ago
Apparently, there's https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb for UK, which could be more approachable for non-German-speakers :)
- Terry_Roll 4y ago
  https://geizhals.eu/ https://geizhals.eu/ is in English and if you then click on the EU flag (top left ) select the Union flag it takes you to skinflint.co.uk.
  - kzrdude 4y ago
    geizhals.eu is in fact not in english (I never visited it before and it shows in German by default). I can't immediately find a language selector. I don't have german in my preferred languages browser setting.
    - Aeolun 4y ago
      It’s English for me (connecting from Japan), English in settings.
    - jfk13 4y ago
      Interesting; maybe it's doing geolocation based on your IP address? It comes up in English for me (connecting from the UK).
      - kzrdude 4y ago
        Firefox, Sweden, always serving German. Not a problem, just curious
        jfk13 4y ago
        Just a guess: maybe it is designed to serve English only to specific English-speaking regions such as the UK and USA, and defaults to German otherwise.
RealStickman_ 4y ago
I use this site all the time to find tech. Their filters are just insane. Here are some filters I find interesting to use. You can filter HDDs by recording technology: https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic+Recording+(CMR) https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic... Similarly, it's possible to specify the storage cell type for SSDs. https://geizhals.de/?cat=hdssd&xf=16325_3 https://geizhals.de/?cat=hdssd&xf=16325_3 For RAM you can specify which memory rank you want and the actual ns operation times for most primary ram timings: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=ramddr3&xf=15554_10.6%7E439_dual https://geizhals.eu/?cat=ramddr3&xf=15554_10.6%7E439_dual Sadly I don't buy through them very often, as they only show stores for Germany, Austria, Poland and the UK.
- arjvik 4y ago
  Sadly I don't speak German and Google Translate doesn't play well with that site. Know any similar English sites?
  - aaronpkelly 4y ago
    you can change the language to english by clicking the flag in the upper-left corner and selecting `EU`
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vbrandl 4y ago
I also applaud their user-respecting design choices. E.g. if your browser sets the DNT (do not track) header, they won't show a cookie consent banner and just assume you selected "reject all"
- joshxyz 4y ago
  First time to see something like that oh god.
- frereubu 4y ago
  We do that for all sites we (a nonprofit / education / science / arts web agency) build. Seems like such a no-brainer to me - if someone has expressed a preference like that, you're only going to annoy them with a cookie popup, which they're most likely going to reject.
- leephillips 4y ago
  My sites don’t present a cookie banner to anyone, and don’t check for the DNT header. We simply don’t spy on our users. Any cookies we set are session and other “essential” cookies.
  - gnubison 4y ago
adrianmsmith 4y ago
Small nitpick, geizhals is actually Austrian (although it operates in a number of markets, each with their own domain, like geizhals.de).
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kalleboo 4y ago
I use https://kakaku.com https://kakaku.com in Japan for the same thing, it's great. When I lived in Sweden, https://prisjakt.nu https://prisjakt.nu served the same purpose well
- frxx 4y ago
  Sadly the filter options on kakaku are way inferior to Geizhals.
pbasista 4y ago
Thank you, I was unaware that such sites exist. It reminds me of the GSMArena's Phone Finder (https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3 https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?) which also allows specifying very narrow search criteria. But it is specific to phones and tablets only.
mitchbob 4y ago
Would love to see a USA version of this.
- glenneroo 4y ago
  Shopping.com (or shopper.com?) used to be like this 15-20 years ago.. then some company bought it and turned it into utter crap. Although looking at it again after a couple years, it does seem to offer a very basic version of price comparison with some basic filters, though with a very limited selection of sellers. About Us takes me to eBay which may explain why it's showing mostly eBay results.

Tepix 4y ago

Geizhals is an amazing website. If you send them corrections or suggestions they will always respond. My only criticism of geizhals is that you can't see items that aren't for sale anyonger unless you search for their names directly. For example you can't use geizhals to get a list of 5k monitors models sold in the last years (most of them are no longer on sale).

cookiengineer 4y ago
I agree. In the past I've looked for potential upgrades of my outdated hardware and seen that they still list them on their website, but only if you already know the specific part numbers or model numbers of the hardware you're looking for. Something like a "discovery" view would be nice where you could specify your requirements beforehand and then look for e.g. compatible parts that could be interesting.
ghusbands 4y ago
Have you sent them that criticism or a related suggestion? You could suggest that they add a default-on filter for 'commercially available' or such.
- Tepix 4y ago
  Yes i've discussed it with them, they are unwilling to offer this service at the moment. I reckon the database is their crown jewel and they don't want to make it too easy to dump it.

musha68k 4y ago

AFAIR it’s also an example of a well managed perl code base.

genezeta 4y ago

Apparently, there's https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb for UK, which could be more approachable for non-German-speakers :)

Terry_Roll 4y ago
https://geizhals.eu/ https://geizhals.eu/ is in English and if you then click on the EU flag (top left ) select the Union flag it takes you to skinflint.co.uk.
- kzrdude 4y ago
  geizhals.eu is in fact not in english (I never visited it before and it shows in German by default). I can't immediately find a language selector. I don't have german in my preferred languages browser setting.
  - Aeolun 4y ago
    It’s English for me (connecting from Japan), English in settings.
  - jfk13 4y ago
    Interesting; maybe it's doing geolocation based on your IP address? It comes up in English for me (connecting from the UK).
    - kzrdude 4y ago
      Firefox, Sweden, always serving German. Not a problem, just curious
      - jfk13 4y ago
        Just a guess: maybe it is designed to serve English only to specific English-speaking regions such as the UK and USA, and defaults to German otherwise.

RealStickman_ 4y ago

I use this site all the time to find tech. Their filters are just insane. Here are some filters I find interesting to use. You can filter HDDs by recording technology: https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic+Recording+(CMR) https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic... Similarly, it's possible to specify the storage cell type for SSDs. https://geizhals.de/?cat=hdssd&xf=16325_3 https://geizhals.de/?cat=hdssd&xf=16325_3 For RAM you can specify which memory rank you want and the actual ns operation times for most primary ram timings: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=ramddr3&xf=15554_10.6%7E439_dual https://geizhals.eu/?cat=ramddr3&xf=15554_10.6%7E439_dual Sadly I don't buy through them very often, as they only show stores for Germany, Austria, Poland and the UK.

arjvik 4y ago
Sadly I don't speak German and Google Translate doesn't play well with that site. Know any similar English sites?
- aaronpkelly 4y ago
  you can change the language to english by clicking the flag in the upper-left corner and selecting `EU`
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vbrandl 4y ago

I also applaud their user-respecting design choices. E.g. if your browser sets the DNT (do not track) header, they won't show a cookie consent banner and just assume you selected "reject all"

joshxyz 4y ago
First time to see something like that oh god.
frereubu 4y ago
We do that for all sites we (a nonprofit / education / science / arts web agency) build. Seems like such a no-brainer to me - if someone has expressed a preference like that, you're only going to annoy them with a cookie popup, which they're most likely going to reject.
leephillips 4y ago
My sites don’t present a cookie banner to anyone, and don’t check for the DNT header. We simply don’t spy on our users. Any cookies we set are session and other “essential” cookies.
- gnubison 4y ago

adrianmsmith 4y ago

Small nitpick, geizhals is actually Austrian (although it operates in a number of markets, each with their own domain, like geizhals.de).

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kalleboo 4y ago

I use https://kakaku.com https://kakaku.com in Japan for the same thing, it's great. When I lived in Sweden, https://prisjakt.nu https://prisjakt.nu served the same purpose well

frxx 4y ago
Sadly the filter options on kakaku are way inferior to Geizhals.

pbasista 4y ago

Thank you, I was unaware that such sites exist. It reminds me of the GSMArena's Phone Finder (https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3 https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?) which also allows specifying very narrow search criteria. But it is specific to phones and tablets only.

mitchbob 4y ago

Would love to see a USA version of this.

glenneroo 4y ago
Shopping.com (or shopper.com?) used to be like this 15-20 years ago.. then some company bought it and turned it into utter crap. Although looking at it again after a couple years, it does seem to offer a very basic version of price comparison with some basic filters, though with a very limited selection of sellers. About Us takes me to eBay which may explain why it's showing mostly eBay results.