Stop Trolling Craigslist & eBay, Try Easy E-Commerce at Woya
I am not a shopper. I am a buyer. I need something; I locate it; I buy it. By some accounts, this makes me a total gender traitor. On the other hand, it makes me a prime target for any startup willing to do the shopping for me.
Take consumer electronics site Woya, for example. When faced with the daunting task of buying a new laptop without the requisite Gs needed to make that process sufficiently simple, I have been paralyzed into procrastination. In about 30 seconds, Woya showed me inexpensive, well reviewed laptops I wanted from eBay, Craigslist, Overstock, Amazon, and other sites. It did the legwork and analytics for me, making the process entirely painless.
A simple query will return a list of results, products that have been sorted by relevance to the given keyword(s), price, rating, available discounts, or popularity. The list can also be tweaked to include results from a particular manufacturer or of a given minimum quality or popularity level. Once a product is chosen, the user is given access to any amount of information he may need to find the best deal - however he defines that term - and makes a purchase decision.
Users can check out results from retail sites, auction sites, and online classifieds from three simple tabs on the product page. They can scope out specs and reviews for a given product, and Woya lets the user know if they think now is a good time to find good deals on the product. The Deal Digger function is particularly useful, similar to Priceline's name-your-own-price function. Users can select parameters and get real-time updates if and when the selected product becomes available at a given price point.
Woya also shows trends and analytics for the product:
Of course, there are social sharing options, and the site apparently allows users to login via OpenID (although this process was a bit buggy and ultimately dysfunctional on my end, perhaps because of a Chrome-related browser incompatibility issue).
All things being equal, Woya's consumer-friendly, ad-free, highly detailed, comparison shopping approach reminded us of discount travel sites such as Priceline, Travelocity, Expedia, and their like. Those sites enjoy their tremendous popularity for good reasons: They have taken a boring, painful process and made it easier, faster, and less expensive for the end user. For a small, Bay Area-based startup barely six months old with just one full-time employee, Woya has done a great deal to simplify and streamline online shopping in a powerful and unique way. We'd love to see the site grow to encompass all verticals of consumer products.
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The first screenshot shows a MacBook Pro's NEW value of $2,050 and USED value of $2,150. Used by a celebrity maybe? ;-)
very easy to use and beautiful
great looking site, for an ebay seller like me it's very interesting, gonna check it out.
great looking site, for an ebay seller like me it's very interesting, gonna check it out.
This is a helpful Web site that can inform you in details about stuff you plan to buy. I wish the author elaborate a little on how Woya is going to lay out its business model. In other words, how Woya is going to make money if it keeps itself ads-free. Would it depend on commissions from products that its users buy?
really great site...good article....
It is looking good site. I will definitely check it out.
And this is good article.
Thanks
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That is cool site. Loving it.
Very intriguing site! Wish I knew about it earlier as I just bought a Samsung HDTV. According to the site, the timing is not the best as the price is on a roller coaster. I will check back to see if indeed it is the case.
Great site, easy to use. Thanks for posting. Noah Lieske
Woya looks like cool tool.
A similar site is ZingSale.com -- I've been using it since the holidays and have found some really great deals. I especially like the email notification features.
http://www.zingsale.com
Excellent suggestion. Woya is far more functional than many of the competing product comparison sites simply because it canvases more than just the same old established online stores.
Hi there, I am the guy who runs Woya.com.
I noticed a little pop in the traffic this morning because of this article. I'd like to use the opportunity to express my gratitude to Jolie for the story and to you, the readers of ReadWriteWeb, for all the generous comments.
Woya is still in its infancy and there are lots to be worked on. I am always keen on hearing feedback from the community as it helps me plan and prioritize new features. I can honor user requests fairly fast, since I can make the decision and the changes on my own (but this can also slow things down sometimes because I cannot work on multiple features at once :-) Feel free to shoot me an email (qiang@) anytime with your suggestions and critiques.
I don't have a Twitter account yet, but I do try to post major updates on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38920691910) and on my blog (http://blog.woya.com) in case you are intereted.
Wow, pretty amazing shopping site! All the analysis and charts can be overwhelming at first but they are definitely insightful. Will use Woya for my next online purchase.
Wow, Woya is awesome for shopaholics like me
that is a cool program. thanks for sharing. I will look into it.
Hi,
There is a new website for comparing Amazon and eBay items. It is very simple without any ads or popups.
Just check it:
http://Q-Compare.com