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Live Garmin Nuvi GPS price comparisons now available on GPSnuvi.com
On January 28, 2008, GPSnuvi.com has added a constantly-updated text box on every single Garmin Nuvi model page, reflecting the latest pricing information of that model from dozens of vendors on the internet and allowing users to easily see where the best deals are.
This example graphic shows info for the Garmin Nuvi 260, reflecting January 28 information.
As of now, three prices are displayed:
• Garmin’s suggested retail price.
• The average price of (usually) 20 vendors chosen for closest relevancy by Google’s Checkout service. This offers an accurate reflection of what people are paying through various popular websites. This price will fluctuate as vendors come and go from Google’s relevancy algorithm, and as prices and deals wax and wane. The constant updates assure that this price is up-to-the-minute, a vital statistic on the internet.
• The average price of all the currently available units for that Nuvi model on eBay. This price is restricted to items with a “Buy It Now” price (i.e., a set price for which you can buy the item right now without waiting for the auction to finish). This restriction is intended to keep these comparisons apples-apples (only Nuvis that are buyable right now), but if a shopper can wait a few days for an auction to end, he or she can usually get the GPS even cheaper by poking through the listings. There is a limit of 100 listings from which to take the eBay average price. (In the example above, 18 relevant eBay auctions were found, a good comparison to the 20 Google vendors.)
The GPSnuvi.com “Price Trends” text box was designed to be easily read at a glance, giving a quick idea of the savings available wherever that may be. (Actually, it wasn’t originally intended to be a tool for eBay promotion per se, but the consistently huge price difference in eBay and regular internet vendors [in favor of eBay] is hard not to notice. It won’t always necessarily be that way though; if the non-eBay average is lower than eBay, the text box will reflect that too.)
The pricing information is automatically gathered and calculated once an hour, all the time.
To see the price trend information for any particular Garmin Nuvi model, click the corresponding menu item on the left.
