What exactly is ShopBIG.com?

ShopBIG.com is a new comparison shopping engine that lets you search more than 100 million items from more than one million sellers instantly. It provides you with a list of products that match your search criteria, including pictures and descriptions and make it easy for you to browse the results right on the site. Then when you find what you want it sends you directly to the seller in 1 click to make your purchase.

How does it do that?

Well, that’s top secret. Tell ya, we gotta kill ya. But seriously, we have developed patent pending technology that is unique in the search space.

Sounds hard, how do I use ShopBIG.com?

We do the hard part. Here’s a three step process for using ShopBIG.com:

Step 1. Enter the item you’re looking for.
Step 2. Click Shop!
Step 3. There’s no step 3!

Well, that sounds cool, but can you give me other examples?

No problem. You can use ShopBIG.com to search for virtually any product that you’re interested in. ShopBIG.com is perfect for items where price is a key consideration — say cars, consumer electronics, DVDs, or books. It searches for items you’re interested in and you can sort the results by price or apply other criteria to filter your results. Then when you find the item you’re interested in you can see all the sellers, including what they charge for tax and shipping and in one click go directly to their site and buy the item. Items that are hard to get through traditional retailers like PS3 and Ninento Wii game consoles are also great items to search for on ShopBIG.com because we search through auctions as well as stores to bring you BIG selections and BIG savings.

You seem to be just giving examples of products. Is e-commerce the sole focus of ShopBIG.com?

Initially the site is focusing on e-commerce products and services. The site’s platform currently includes more than 100,000,000 items (yes, that's right), with approximately 5,000,000 (right again) new items each day, from 1,000,000 merchants or sellers! Instantly search them all. Then, set ShopBIG to find new items that meet the exact description and price you choose. New products from the vast and ever-growing number of new merchants of all kinds are continuously being added to the site and if you like, we can email you as soon as an item that meets your criteria hits the web. Literally, ShopBIG.com will search for you while sleep, eat, work, whatever.

My initial search results come from many, many different merchants. But it seems like many of the new search results that I get triggers for are from eBay. How come?

While ShopBIG.com is connected to a vast number of traditional merchants like Sony, Apple, CompUSA, Office Depot, Overstock.com, Drugstore.com, Buy.com, and more, eBay is the largest e-commerce platform in the world and has the most NEW items being added to it throughout the day. Moreover, eBay continues to have some of the most competitive prices on the web. Additionally, as we add new marketplaces and merchants with real time feeds, users will see a more diverse selection of merchants.

Do you charge for the service?

No, nyet, nada, it's FREE!!!

Then how do you make money?

We get paid solely by driving traffic to our e-commerce merchants and sellers. That’s it. No advertising, no selling your information, no spam, no paid keywords, no nothing except giving you the best matches for your search, when you want it and how you want it. It's all natural search, which means that our users get truly non-influenced information. As they say, "We do not have a dog in the fight." We just want to help you find the best product, item, or service on the Web, at the best price, as quick and easily as possible. We have absolutely no preference where you buy from. Therefore our interests are completely aligned with our users (a claim very few, if any other search engines, can make)!

Does ShopBIG.com conduct any transactions whatsoever?

Absolutely not! We are a comparison shopping engine. We get you the results you’re looking for, and then we link you directly to the merchant to complete your transaction. We do, however, carefully screen all merchants for credibility.