What is Shopping.com? Shopping.com Review, Features

Shopping.com is a shopping comparison and consumer evaluation website that was acquired by eBay in August 2005. Shopping.com has websites in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia.

About Shopping.com

Shopping.com is headquartered in Brisbane, California, with operations in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Australia.

Shopping.com is committed to providing consumers with an exceptional shopping experience by offering users easy-to-use search tools, engaging content and time-saving navigation, as well as millions of user-generated product and merchant reviews from the Shopping.com user community.

Shopping.com's mission is to help consumers make confident purchasing decisions when they are unsure of what to buy.

Shopping.com is a one-stop online shopping platform for consumers. Shopping.com recently launched new content and navigation features to help consumers make quick, easy and informed shopping decisions by showing them a range of products from their favorite brands, enhanced with extensive product reviews and ratings.

· For retailers, Shopping.com is a highly effective marketing channel that reaches approximately 100 million consumers per month with a single campaign. Through key strategic partnerships including CNET, TheFind, eBay and many others, Shopping.com maximizes the range of merchants available to consumers for online shopping.

Historical background

Shopping.com started as Papricom (DealTime.com). DealTime.com was founded in 1998 by Dr. Nahum Sharfman and Amir Ashkenazi. The site’s original business model was to build a downloadable client that monitored the price of products a user wanted to buy over time and notified the user when the price reached a predetermined level (hence the site’s original name, DealTime).

In April 2003, under the leadership of its CEO Daniel T. Ciporin, DealTime acquired Epinions.com, a California-based consumer product review website. In September 2013, the combined website was renamed Shopping.com.

Shopping.com went public in October 2004 and was acquired by eBay in 2005 for $21 per share in cash, with a total value of approximately $634 million. It is currently a semi-autonomous department within eBay and still operates the www.shopping.com website independently.