Everybody loves a bargain, but few have the time and patience to travel from store to store seeking out the best prices. One of the many advantages of online shopping is that you can scout out similar products and find the most inexpensive prices. This holds true whether you’re shopping for fragrances, tools, pet supplies, auto parts, toys, jewelry, or virtually anything else you’re in the market for.

Unfortunately, though, it’s not always straightforward to do price comparisons. Although there are some sites that allow you to search for a product by price, the results are sometimes influenced by the money e-tailers pay to ensure that their online shopping sites are at or near the top of the results. In other words, you often aren’t given the least expensive items, but are instead given paid advertisements for the online stores that carry the product in which you’re interested.