Frucall allows consumers to get pricing and customer rating information about
items they see in store by making a call from their cell phone.
To use the service, simply dial 1-888-FRU-SHOP (1-888-378-7467) and enter an ISBN, EIN, or a 12-digit barcode value. Frucall will tell you the new and best used price for the product, including estimated shipping costs for both. From that point you can choose to get more information about other marketplace listings for the product, buy the product, or simply bookmark it for later. In the future you will also be able to get recommendations.
-- Jeff;
Oh, snap!
Posted by: Chris Pirillo | April 10, 2006 at 01:27 PM
Hey...I tried the service. I honestly didn't think it was going to work, but it did. It was awesome. I was shopping in Barnes & Noble for my school text books, called the Fru-Shop phone number and received the results of how much the book was on Amazon. As always, it was cheaper! Too bad I couldn't buy it.
Janine
Posted by: Janine Romero | April 10, 2006 at 01:28 PM
Sounds good, I'll have to give it a go. Does it compare the prices to Amazon prices only, or other stores as well?
Posted by: Marc Mezzacca | April 11, 2006 at 03:16 AM
The retail marketing people, must be hating this.
I like it a lot, one of the best shopping tools I have seen in a while.
Guys love this stuff
Posted by: Keith Cash | April 12, 2006 at 09:40 AM
I tried it using my Vonage phone and it didn't work. Then again, nothing ever works with Vonage. Anybody else out there have the same problems?
On a side note, Frucall seems to be like a very awesome tool. I hope they are testing it with other voip providers.
Ted
Posted by: Ted Robinson | April 12, 2006 at 12:31 PM
Greetings,
As a member of the Frucall team, I'm very glad to see this thread of conversation. Obviousely Amazon is a key focus for us, and at the same time we are in the processing of expanding and overing other online sources.
Quality is a key driver for us, and I will personally contact Todd to see if we can figure out the "Vonage" issue. In fact we have tried it with another VoIP provider, Packet8, and it worked flawlessly.
Thank you for using Frucall!
Nasser Manesh, CTO
Posted by: Nasser Manesh | April 12, 2006 at 02:48 PM
When do you plan on integrating payment through Frucall?
Posted by: Mario Gonzales | April 15, 2006 at 11:04 AM
How does a person contact a human with a problem? Everytime I try to check out a product that has many pages, I get cut off after about 4 pages because my time is up???
How do I get past that?
Posted by: A. Michaels | April 22, 2006 at 08:36 AM