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Introducing Shopping with Microsoft Edge
Holiday season is quickly approaching and this year many of us will be shopping online more than ever before. Today, we’re excited to share some new features built into Microsoft Edge that we hope will help you save time and money these holidays.
Coupons are a great way to save money, but they often require a lot of work to find the right ones at the right time. That’s why we’re excited to announce our new coupons feature in Microsoft Edge (starting in build 86.0.622.61), which we hope will make it faster and easier to save money with built-in coupons. When you visit a retailer site, Microsoft Edge will alert you if there are any coupons available for that site. You can view the list of coupons at any time by clicking on the blue shopping tag in the address bar. At checkout, you can copy and paste a code or Microsoft Edge can automatically try them all to determine which one will save you the most.
Last month, we unveiled price comparison in Collections to help you find the best price online. Now we’re launching our next step, a proactive price comparison experience that meets you where you shop. When you’re shopping, Microsoft Edge will check prices at competing retailers to let you know if a lower price is available elsewhere. Click the blue price tag to see a list of prices along with direct links to the product page on those sites. If you already have the lowest price, Microsoft Edge will let you know too, saving your time and energy. Price comparisons is now rolling out in Insider channels.
This is just the beginning for shopping experiences on Microsoft Edge, and we’d love to hear what you think of them so far! Please send us feedback (“…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback) if something isn’t working right. If you’d like to manage your settings, go to edge://settings/privacy and look for “Save time and money with Shopping in Microsoft Edge”. And if there’s a shopping feature you’d like to see added to Microsoft Edge, we’re excited to hear that too.
- Mark Shelton, Program Manager, Microsoft Edge
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markshelton Hi Mark, I tried messaging you yesterday but I don't think it went through. I'm the biz-dev manager for Mercatalyst which runs the three ecommerce sites http://morningsave.com/, http://sidedeal.com/ and http://meh.com/. We are eager to learn how we can participate in price comparisons in Shopping with Microsoft Edge. I look forward to hearing from you.
Hi - Shopping is suggesting inline stores that might not be legitimate. Are sites vetted? If they are scams does shopping help with resolving issues? Provide a refund guarantee if the site fails to fullfill?
Ooo. Goodie. More bullshit in Edge that can't be removed.
markshelton Could I ask how you're getting the coupon codes? Seems like you, maybe, scrape existing voucher code publishers sites and then re-publish the codes without proper link attribution. Are you asking for consent from the voucher code publishers before listing their codes? Often, these sites publish exclusive codes and state clearly in their terms of use that re-publishing is an absolute no-no.
markshelton great feature. It would be interesting to hear an answer on this one. How are you getting the coupons?
markshelton Need to have an ability to mark "lower price found" item as incorrect. I was browsing for sneakers and I got a popup saying lower price found, but it's actually women's shoes and different size. And some other "matches" were also the same brand but different model(but similar name). So it needs to improve exact item detection and/or ability for people to tag items as the same/different.
markshelton Mark Great feature for MS Edge! How does this coupon feature collect coupon codes & can MS Edge users post/share/add their coupon codes in this feature somehow? I am ready to share my coupon code for a particular website product checkout if you can insert it manually for now...
markshelton it works just fine wish it would do this on hover.
- Thanks for the suggestion! So you would like the flyout to open when you hover over the icon instead of clicking it? Would that be easier for you? Why do you normally open the flyout?
Hi Edge team,
I just wanted to comment and say that I like the shopping feature. I thought it would be mostly useless or even worse (like the pinterest integration, seriously who thought that was a good idea). However, it saved me $10 a few days ago. I was about to buy a product but before completing the sale I clicked the tag and it said I could buy it cheaper on another website. I looked into it and, sure enough, I was able to buy it cheaper on another website.
Thanks for this feature.
- Thanks for sharing! So glad you were able to save money using our Shopping feature!
- Yes definitely need to expand this to a lot more countries
markshelton It would be so good if Edge can warn me if I am on a diffrent region of the website. LIke Amazon.com and warn me that I need to switch to Amazon.ca. Also A.I detect that. Also when on a international stie, be able to currency exchange and find better places in local place or just a better price of CAD not USD
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Deleted wrote:markshelton It would be so good if Edge can warn me if I am on a diffrent region of the website. LIke Amazon.com and warn me that I need to switch to Amazon.ca. Also A.I detect that. Also when on a international stie, be able to currency exchange and find better places in local place or just a better price of CAD not USD
that's not possible in all stores.
some stores, special game stores don't allow that and it's against their TOS to switch region for cheaper price.
there are other stores that also require local payments etc. it's gonna be a headache
