Bo Henriksens’s Weblog

As a part of my job, I am responsible for all hard- and software purchases. Being the nerd that I am, I am also responsible for all hard- and software purchases on the home front. An important part of this job, is the priceawareness, and what a fantastic help the web is on finding the best price.

BUT I am from Denmark, the world champion country of high taxes, which means, that it is often cheaper to purchase my goodies from the US og the UK. This has made me painfully aware of one small feature I really wish for in all the price indexes and price comparison sites. A lot of Uk and especially US webshops do not ship outside their countries.

So yesterday, when i sat and read Paul Grahams list of startup ideas, something sparked in the creative part of my brain. Why doesn’t these price comparison websites make a ’ships to’-option.

For example, I am thinking about buying a Canon EOS 40d D-SLR with the 17-85mm lens, the current lowest price in Denmark is equivalent of about $2000. Using Google shopping, I have found prices as low as about $1000 adding shipping and import taxes I would end up around $1500, which is still a $500 save, my problem is that you can’t see on Google shopping whether a shop offers shipping outside US, so I have to go to their website and look at their shipping options.

It would save me a lot of time if I could just do a Google shopping search like ‘Canon eos 40d 17-85mm ships-to:Denmark’ and get a list of shops that ships to Denmark.