Chris Hope wrote: > They did a "soft" relaunch towards the end of last year. I happened to > be trying to use the site right when they changed over and got quite a > shock to see the nice new design and functionality. > > It's now owned by a Swedish company so appears to have been bought > out, because I'm fairly certain it was previously owned by a New > Zealander and I think he may have done everything himself. > > I think given the prominence of Pricespy they're able to now demand a > feed rather than bothering with screen scraping, but I think if Joe > Bloggs went along and started demanding feeds from people with their > start up website they'd be told to sod off :) > > Mind you, now that Pricespy is getting sites to supply a feed I don't > see any reason that site shouldn't then make their site available to > another aggregator, unless of course Pricespy has some agreement with > them that they don't. > > As a side note, the staff at PriceSpy have been pretty cool to deal with. I got a thorough response straight away when I asked for clarification on the data format, although it looks like they are pretty accommodating about how they receive your data. eg "Here's the data format. Feel free to adhere to it, or not. Or just make up your own names for the fields and we'll read it anyway. Or if that all sounds too hard, we can just scrape your site and get the data that way."
<disclaimer>the above is not a direct quote, but that was the gist of it</disclaimer> They are big enough now to be able to ask for a feed, but still small enough to be polite about it. Harvey. -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
