These are two different businesses. Shopping.com does not really sell anything--it redirects to actual merchant websites so it really depends on how well the merchants listed on shopping.com convert sales on their websites. It would be interesting to know if anyone compared directly conversions of customers on Amazon vs Shopping.com It may be that Amazon is better because you have one merchant (mostly) that is very familiar to buyers. On the other hand, Shopping.com offers many options to each buyer so they may visit a few merchants and buy from one. It can go either way. It would be interested to do a good test to find out what works best.
The shopping.com banners are few and very uncustomisable (minimum width banner is 700+ in size for horizontal banner, can't change bg colour etc). Not getting very good results with the API. (items do not rotate, some inflexibility with the layout).
I was quiet interested to know more about shopping.com until acclaim's comments above. Guess I will just stick to Amazon for a while longer now!
the thing that interests me though is that shopping.com pays PER CLICK whereas Amazon requires an action
i tried shopping.com and it is very expensive to sell stuff in there. either way i did not sell a single thing so it would not make sense for me to recommend it
I have been using amazon and pretty happy with them. Especially now that the traffic on my site is starting to pick up. I have also been using shopzilla some but I am getting better results with Amazon.
I just started using amazon.com. I was happy to see that I made 4 sales right away, but then disappointed when the payout was only about $2.00.
I made a whole $5 from Amazon after 2 months, so now I am trying shopping.com instead. I have to say, the cpc is nice. You get paid by click and leads.
I've had good results with shopping.com, but nothing compared to the business I've got from Amazon BTW, is smarter.com related to shopzilla/bizrate?