InvisibleHand Firefox extension recommends the best price for anything that you shop online to help you shop better.

Of the bazillion Firefox extensions only a few stands out and provide true value. One of that extension could be InvisibleHand.

When you shop online how would you make sure you get the best price available. Sure, you can visit different online retailers and can compare the price manually. Or you can use some of the price comparison sites such as PriceGrabber.com and find the best price available.

Well, as you might realize that’s a bit involved process and certain price comparison websites can only recommend prices for certain type of products. On the other hand, InvisibleHand, a tiny Firefox add-on, waits on your browser for you to shop online and recommends you of the best price available to help you shop better.

When you view a product online it pops-up (non-intrusive) an infolet to let you know of the best price available online for that product. It even let you see the other retailers that it compares against along with the prices they offer for the product without you leaving the browser or navigating to another website.

Let’s walk-thru a sample scenario where I have the InvisibleHand Firefox add-on installed and pretending that I’m looking for a PC Memory module. Using Firefox I visit Amazon.com and search for the memory module that I need. I was told a price of $36.60.

Without the add-on I would have went ahead and placed an order but with the trusted InvisibleHand add-on installed I wait for it to do the job and there comes the pop-up. To my surprise InvisibleHand suggested that I can save 48% by purchasing the same from NewEgg.com.

If you look towards the right side of the pop-up you could see 2 buttons, “View this item on…” and “View other retailers“.

For some reason, let’s say you don’t prefer to shop at NewEgg.com. Instead of cutting you off right there or forcing you to shop at NewEgg.com InvisibleHand on the other hand helps you still shop better by providing you with a list of other retailers who are offering the same product which it used on its comparison. As you could see that it conveniently lists the retailers in terms of their price offering…pretty neat!

Since I see the price being less on NewEgg.com I clicked on the “View this item on Newegg.com” button. I was taken to the NewEgg.com site and the price was $18.99, fair enough!

Wait, it gets interesting from here. While I was looking at the page, in a few seconds, InvisibleHand pops open another infolet and told me that the price is even cheaper at Buy.com.

With 19% further discount that seemed to be a steal and so I clicked on the “View this item on Buy.com” button.

As expected, InvisibleHand loaded the Buy.com page where I saw the final price of that memory module (as of this writing) being $15.37 after discounts. With the satisfaction and confidence of finding the lowest price I can, without me doing much, I went ahead and placed an order.

Just before I placed the order I thought why not check out the price for the same at PriceGrabber.com. Well, it turned out to be that I would have paid more if I must have used just PriceGrabber.com to base my comparison on.

Isn’t that a cool extension on your book if you shop online much? On top of saving time InvisibleHand can make you feel confident that you found the best price you could find from those trusted retailers.

With all the convenience it offers I do find an inconvenience factor, why not show me THE BEST price right on the first pass itself rather than asking me to jump to NewEgg.com in between (affiliate?). That’s just one gripe that I have but wouldn’t put it in a complainy-way.

Overall, InvisibleHand is one of those few Firefox add-ons that makes a clear difference and I’m sure this will get better from here. If you find other uses of InsivibleHand or if you have any personal InvisibleHand experience that is worth sharing with others please do so on comments.

Visit InvisibleHand website at GetInvisibleHand.com

Install InvisibleHand Firefox add-on to shop better.

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