Search & Compare Cigars Price

[05Venturer]

I use this when bargain shopping

http://www.amazingcigarbargains.com/

[Cfickter]

Keep up the great work. You have something good going on there

[Chrism305]

Since shipping cost (either EU to US or US to EU) may be an issue perhaps as part of your drop downs at the top of the page have that as a filter.

[nwb]

05Venturer - 4/29/2014  4:40 PM
I use this when bargain shopping

http://www.amazingcigarbargains.com/

That is a decent site if you are interested in daily deals or humidor/cigar combos, but having a comprehensive comparison shopper (like he is doing here) will be very valuable, especially for box purchases.

[05Venturer]

nwb - 4/30/2014  7:17 AM

05Venturer - 4/29/2014  4:40 PM
I use this when bargain shopping

http://www.amazingcigarbargains.com/

That is a decent site if you are interested in daily deals or humidor/cigar combos, but having a comprehensive comparison shopper (like he is doing here) will be very valuable, especially for box purchases.

I see now I didn't catch the link earlier, very interesting but it looks like all in euro's or am I missing something  

[nwb]

05Venturer - 4/30/2014  8:29 AM
I see now I didn't catch the link earlier, very interesting but it looks like all in euro's or am I missing something  

Yes, everything is in Euros.  It sounds like Fernando is planning on incorporating a conversion to US$ option.

[pipemarket]

im working on a solution to display prices in the format "euro(usd)".

added podmancigars.com http://pipemarket.eu/merchant/podmancigars.com/ has suggested
gonna work on the other sites that were suggested

[pipemarket]

added a currency converter, just click on "Convert" below the prices.

its a temp solution will work on something more elaborated (that also manages adding/deducting taxes)

[nkowal]

Cool site. Currency converter works for me!

Not sure if this is possible, but what about a in stock/out of stock notice?

[cavenbk]

Finally got a chance to check out the site Fernando. Looks awesome. Going to come in real helpful to a lot of people I believe.

[pipemarket]

nkowal - 4/30/2014  4:20 AM

Cool site. Currency converter works for me!

Not sure if this is possible, but what about a in stock/out of stock notice?

the only reason i didnt added stock info is that alot of shops dont have that info, also in order for me to add it i have to redo almost 200 crawlers, but i will try to add it as soon has possible.

[Vroomp]

When you find the cheapest price in Euros and click the site link, if it is an American site, I noticed the price was actually listed in dollars.....

[pipemarket]

Vroomp - 4/30/2014  12:48 PM

When you find the cheapest price in Euros and click the site link, if it is an American site, I noticed the price was actually listed in dollars.....

i convert all prices to euros first cause i get prices in usd/gbp/eur/chf etc

so no matter what currency the shop has it will be converted to euro when i import to my database

also the price is converted when i import to database so there might be some small diferences because the of the currency rates changes

products/prices are currently updated once a week

[nkowal]

cavenbk - 4/30/2014  10:49 PM

Finally got a chance to check out the site Fernando. Looks awesome. Going to come in real helpful to a lot of people I believe.

Agreed, I know I will use it. Very cool.

[pipemarket]

added 2 more shops

dirtyleafcigars.com http://pipemarket.eu/merchant/dirtyleafcigars.com/

federalcigar.com http://pipemarket.eu/merchant/federalcigar.com/

been working on adding new advertising solutions to allow me to pay for the site expenses, sorry for the annoying ads.

[Cfickter]

Now worries on the ads, got to cover expenses somehow, site is developing quickly

[nwb]

I was looking for a particular cigar yesterday, and your website showed up on the second page of Google results.  Glad to see it progressing nicely.

[pipemarket]

nwb - 5/2/2014  9:13 PM

I was looking for a particular cigar yesterday, and your website showed up on the second page of Google results.  Glad to see it progressing nicely.

i hope it keeps going up :)

theres alot more i could do to increase my seo but like everything else i lack the time.

if it wasnt for google to ban my adsense account i wouldnt had spent the last days searching for ad networks to join, just hope adsense account is all they ban

PS: gonna add cigarsdirect.com products to my db  since they are one of the sponsors of cigargeeks

[pipemarket]

just an update to my last post:

added:
cigarsdirect.com http://pipemarket.eu/merchant/cigarsdirect.com/
showmeyourash.com http://pipemarket.eu/merchant/showmeyourash.com/
lighterusa.com http://pipemarket.eu/merchant/lighterusa.com/
uptowncigar.com http://pipemarket.eu/merchant/uptowncigar.com/

finnaly reached the 250k products :)

[pipemarket]

Site is currently down...was testing some scripts and the hostgator server couldnt handle them...so they restricted my acess to mysql...should be back soon :)

shared hosting has this problems gonna see if i can get a dedicated server

[hebron]

pipemarket - 5/10/2014  7:02 PM

Site is currently down...was testing some scripts and the hostgator server couldnt handle them...so they restricted my acess to mysql...should be back soon :)

shared hosting has this problems gonna see if i can get a dedicated server

You should get a VPS, you can get those pretty cheap.

[pipemarket]

yeah im looking at it right now, kinda tired of hostgator

[hebron]

pipemarket - 5/10/2014  7:55 PM

yeah im looking at it right now, kinda tired of hostgator

VPS is definitely the way to go, plus you have SSH access and can utilize a whole range of tools. Once you go VPS, you don't go back

http://www.comparevps.com/

[CigarPlace]

pipemarket - 5/3/2014  4:38 PM

nwb - 5/2/2014  9:13 PM

I was looking for a particular cigar yesterday, and your website showed up on the second page of Google results.  Glad to see it progressing nicely.

i hope it keeps going up :)

theres alot more i could do to increase my seo but like everything else i lack the time.

if it wasnt for google to ban my adsense account i wouldnt had spent the last days searching for ad networks to join, just hope adsense account is all they ban

PS: gonna add cigarsdirect.com products to my db  since they are one of the sponsors of cigargeeks

Look into MediaMath, AdChoices and MediaDirect.

Or you can look to the cigar retailers themselves to fund your site. We'd be happy to consider advertising on it once all the porn is gone. I was unable to browse your site due to lots of pop-ups as well. Had I had more time, I would have been able to check out more of the functionality.

Also, in doing a search for our most popular products, for some reason we weren't coming up in your search results despite you saying that we've been added to the site and we have lower pricing than the sites that were displayed. How can we help ensure that our products are produced by a search on your site?

[pipemarket]

Sorry i joined so many adnetworks i kinda messed it up and end up with things i didnt wanted, its all cleared now, selected 4 networks and started using DFP. Its kinda dificult when all you have on the site is tobacco related products

Has to going directly to the retailers, i was supposed to starting doing in the begining of the month but the lack time plus the mess on the hostgator server delayed things a bit (moving to a VPS in this month)

Your products are added and you can check them at http://pipemarket.eu/merchant/cigarplace.biz/ and were last updated on 05/11/2014.
 
It would be most helpfull if you could provide a product feed (xml,csv or txt) it would eliminate crawling errors even though i  check crawlers to avoid them.