I also applaud their user-respecting design choices. E.g. if your browser sets the DNT (do not track) header, they won't show a cookie consent banner and just assume you selected "reject all"
My sites don’t present a cookie banner to anyone, and don’t check for the DNT header. We simply don’t spy on our users. Any cookies we set are session and other “essential” cookies.
We do that for all sites we (a nonprofit / education / science / arts web agency) build. Seems like such a no-brainer to me - if someone has expressed a preference like that, you're only going to annoy them with a cookie popup, which they're most likely going to reject.
Geizhals is an amazing website. If you send them corrections or suggestions they will always respond.
My only criticism of geizhals is that you can't see items that aren't for sale anyonger unless you search for their names directly. For example you can't use geizhals to get a list of 5k monitors models sold in the last years (most of them are no longer on sale).
Yes i've discussed it with them, they are unwilling to offer this service at the moment. I reckon the database is their crown jewel and they don't want to make it too easy to dump it.
I agree. In the past I've looked for potential upgrades of my outdated hardware and seen that they still list them on their website, but only if you already know the specific part numbers or model numbers of the hardware you're looking for.
Something like a "discovery" view would be nice where you could specify your requirements beforehand and then look for e.g. compatible parts that could be interesting.
geizhals.eu is in fact not in english (I never visited it before and it shows in German by default). I can't immediately find a language selector. I don't have german in my preferred languages browser setting.
Just a guess: maybe it is designed to serve English only to specific English-speaking regions such as the UK and USA, and defaults to German otherwise.
It reminds me of the GSMArena's Phone Finder (https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?) which also allows specifying very narrow search criteria. But it is specific to phones and tablets only.
Shopping.com (or shopper.com?) used to be like this 15-20 years ago.. then some company bought it and turned it into utter crap. Although looking at it again after a couple years, it does seem to offer a very basic version of price comparison with some basic filters, though with a very limited selection of sellers. About Us takes me to eBay which may explain why it's showing mostly eBay results.
https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things.
Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy.
For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb
I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.