PricePicker Pocket PC 1.1 - Free Pocket PC Software
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Summary:
PricePicker is a Pocket PC finance software for the price comparison shopping. It helps you collect prices and make your best buy decisions.
Download Full Version: (366K)
Frequently Asked Questions:
PricePicker Pocket PC FAQ page
Product reviews
"Comparison shopping can be a real hassle, but something all of us engages in. After the first
experience of buying something and finding it for substantially less somewhere else, we begin the
tiring hunt through web and retail outlet alike to find the best bargain. PricePicker looks like it
may be the answer to the question "Can‘t I Do This Faster???" when it comes to this
price hunting. The new version boasts an easy to understand UI and the ability to export its
findings to CSV. No comparison shopping needed for the software though - its fairly nice priced
at $7.85!"
Jon Westfall, Pocket PC Thoughts
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Comparison Shopping Software Makes Your Grocery List Cheaper!
You have probably heard that it's a good idea to shop with a shopping or grocery list with
similar products placed together. Grouping products by category on your grocery list gives
your straight and clear overview of your shopping needs. But what about the budgeting? Can
your grocery list be cheaper? Probably. Then how can we measure it?
There is an old fashion way to do that. You just write down on a piece of paper prices of
products you purchased in the past. A smart shopper armed with this information will know
if a "Special Offer" is truly a bargain or not. Costly mistakes can be avoided, and much
money can be saved by knowing how much to pay for products. Such price history list is a
powerful tool. Just think about the fact that even eBay recently opened price history to
its users.
It is great idea to have some tool that helps to maintain a price list history. If you have
a Pocket PC device, we offer you such tool. It is PricePicker Pocket
PC. With this Pocket PC price comparison program you can easily maintain your
valuable prices data. Then you'll find how cheap your grocery list is in No Time!
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The Price Is Right When There Is Not Cheaper Price
PricePicker is a Pocket PC finance program for price
comparison shopping. It will help check out the best prices,
and compare merchants. It allows you to quickly enter and view price information. It also
has a highly intuitive user interface. PricePicker instantly categorizes and sorts
Products in the order you define. You‘ll have to endure no more endless searches
through a product list! With PricePicker Pocket PC your price comparison shopping cannot be
easier.
Price Picker Pocket PC ™ - portrait mode
With PricePicker, you can instantly key in the prices
of products advertised in newspapers, offered by internet merchants, or the stores that
you shop at regularly.
Price Picker Pocket PC ™ - landscape mode
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How It Works
Imagine that you need to compare the prices between local grocery stores. Let‘s use a beer,
Heineken Pilsener 33d, as an example. Please note
that we don‘t give hints here on how to buy beer, just how to use PricePicker
to figure out which beer is the best buy.
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First, you need to create a product title. PricePicker
provides two hierarchy levels of product description: Product and
subcategories of that product. The program helps you keep different product groups
in a compact format. In our example, we‘ll name the Product Beer and
use Heineken Pilsener 33d as a Subcategory.
It‘s obvious that under the Product Beer one can add several different kinds and
brands of related products.
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The next step is to add names of local grocery stores. In our example, you will
see grocery stores near San Jose (CA):
Albertsons (grocery store)
(408) 297-3710
272 E Santa Clara St
San Jose, CA 95113
Dai Thanh Supermarket (grocery store)
(408) 287-3744
420 S 2nd St
San Jose, CA 95113
S & S Market (grocery store)
(408) 275-9650
502 S 10th St
San Jose, CA 95112
Shop & Save (grocery store)
(408) 286-4211
365 Bird Ave
San Jose, CA 95126
Zanottos Downtown Market (grocery store)
(408) 977-1333
40 S 2nd St
San Jose, CA 95113
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Now we‘re ready to enter all the prices we collected. It is a straightforward,
simple action. The prices should be entered for all five grocery stores.
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As soon as all the prices for all the grocery stores are registered, we can (with a
couple of taps on the Pocket PC screen) get a clear picture about the real state
of market prices for Heineken Pilsener 33d.
To view prices, and then make your best buy decision, you need just tap on the
"Views->Where To Buy" menu item, or tap the "Where To Buy" graphical
button on the main view of PricePicker. The next step
is to choose a product you are interested in from the product list, tap the button Next.
You‘ll get a price list for the product. Compare prices, and make your best buy decision!
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You Can Collect Your Prices On Your Desktop PC
This Pocket PC finance software allows you to export prices in a Comma Separated
Values (CSV) file. CSV is just an ASCII text file where lines organized so each column value is
separated by a comma from the next column value, and each row starts a new line. The export file
will be saved on your Pocket PC (in a folder of your choice: Business or Personal) with the
extension .csv that is reserved for a CSV file type. This file
can be easily exported to your Desktop PC via the ActiveSync program or "manually" via
Windows Explorer.
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Navigating within PricePicker Pocket PC
PricePicker has on its main view four
graphical buttons:
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Where To Buy
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Add New Price
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Shops
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Products
These buttons help you view and edit Price, Product, and Shop
information. If PricePicker doesn‘t contain
Prices, Products, and Shops information, these buttons won‘t work. For example,
if you tap on the "Add New Price" button, then the following message
appears: "First, add shops!"
At the very beginning you need to enter the Product and Shop information first.
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PricePicker Pocket PC Help
Finally, you can get help at any time simply by tapping the Help command on the
Start menu of your Pocket PC. When PricePicker
appears on your Pocket PC screen, Help displays details and hints on how you can
use this Pocket PC finance program.
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Price Picker Pocket PC Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
For more information about PricePicker Pocket PC, please read the
PricePicker FAQ page.
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