PriceSCAN is one of the first generation of "shopping bots" which includes DealTime, mySimon and BottomDollar. PriceSCAN helps to gather, process and publish the most comprehensive and accurate information on retail prices. They also provide customized databases to economists, financial analysts, hedge funds and manufacturers.
PriceSCAN is your guide to the lowest prices on books, computers, electronics, sporting goods, video games, watches and more or it can be said it is an "unbiased" price comparison engine. At PriceSCAN, they believe that consumers should have access to unbiased reporting on products and prices.
PriceSCAN has been both criticized and praised for its strategy; criticized for the potential loss of advertising revenue and praised for the integrity of the strategy itself.
