Shopping.com

Shopping.com is a product and price comparison service with websites in the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Australia. Operator of the portals is the Company Shopping Epinions International Limited, which is part of eBay since 2005. The company's headquarters is located in Brisbane ( California ), USA. In Germany Shopping.com sits in Three Linden in Berlin. Since February 2009, Guido Syré responsible for the German and since March 2012, the international business of Shopping.com.

Divisions

Shopping.com has two divisions:

Technology

In Shopping.com is a so-called " white label price comparison portal ," since the sample size is not from Shopping.com, but is added by the affiliated dealers.

Since 2010 Shopping.com is available as an app for the iPhone and mobile phones with Android operating system.

History

The precursor from Shopping.com ( Dealtime.com ) was founded in Israel by Nahum Sharfman and Amir Ashkenazi 1998. The original business idea was a downloadable PC program prior to the observation of price changes. Users should be notified when the price of a product falls below a fixed threshold ( hence the name "Deal Time" ). Contrary to the original planning Dealtime.com was finally recognized as an online platform. As part of an alliance with the Bertelsmann group 's website in 2000 went on an expansion course: Dealtime.com published online presence in UK, Germany, Spain and Japan and bought the product recommendation service Digital Jones. Due to poor financial results in the years 2000 and 2001, half of the staff was laid off. In late 2001 Dealtime.com gave his websites on in Germany and Japan.

2002, an additional payment system was introduced counter-offer, the partners can since then secure a more prominent position in the price comparison. This and other changes in 2003, the company was able to generate a profit for the first time. In April DealTime bought the product review site Epinions.com. The page Shopping.com was set up in September 2003. After the listing of the Company ( October 2004), Shopping.com was purchased in June 2005 by the U.S. company eBay for around $ 620 million. Since websites in France and Australia, as well as in Germany (November 2005) were set up.

On 29 April 2009 came Nahum Sharfman, a founder of Shopping.com, at the age of 61 years in a plane crash in Greece killed.