Yesterday, a friend of mine showed me CgeNa, an online buy and sell website for Filipinos.  Its purpose is pretty similar to Sulit or eBay, except that it has quite a handy price check tool, which I’ve highlighted below:

Basically it works like this: you enter the item you want to canvass and click “Go”.  The website then shows you a list of vendors selling the product, as well as how much they are selling it for.  The shops indexed are mostly from Greenhills, Mega Mall, and Glorietta.  For now, they only cover electronics such as cellphones, PDAs, media players, cameras, computers, and home appliances.

It sure beats hopping around from shop to shop or mall to mall, asking various vendors how much they’re selling an item.  If more shops upload their price lists to the site, and a wider variety of products are covered, then CgeNa could easily be the Philippines’ first extensive online price canvassing  tool.