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What is the difference between Simple and Detailed view?

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Understanding prices, 10 articles

The Overview matrix has two ways to show the same prices. Simple answers "who do I have to beat, and by how much". Detailed shows every shop side by side. Switch between them at the top right of the page. priceq remembers your choice in this browser.

Simple view

Each row is one product. The columns are:

  • gap to cheapest: how far your price sits above the cheapest shop, as a percentage of that shop's price, with the amount and your place underneath, for example "#2 of 5". When you are the cheapest it says cheapest and how far below number two you sit. Within 2% of the cheapest shop, it shows near parity with a grey dot.
  • market trend 30d: how the other shops' prices for this product moved over 30 days. Each shop is compared with its own earlier price and your shop is left out. A dash means there is not enough history yet.
  • the market · cheap → expensive: a bar from the cheapest to the dearest shop. The open ring is your price, the green dot the cheapest shop.
  • my price: your own shop's price, or a dash when you do not sell the product.

A red edge on the left of a row means a competitor is more than 2% cheaper. A green edge means you are the cheapest. not in your store means your own shop has no price for this product.

Click the bar to open Who sits where: every shop by name with its price, the difference vs you, its stock and when it was last seen. Press Escape or click elsewhere to close it. full history → opens the product page, see Price history of one product.

Simple view shows 25 products per page.

Detailed view

Each shop gets a tile, cheapest on the left. Your own shop's tile is marked my store and has a stronger border than the others. On each other tile, a red minus figure means that shop is below your price and a green plus figure means it is above. When you do not sell the product, the figures are grey because there is no price of yours to compare with.

A faded tile with a dashed border has a price older than 72 hours, see Why does my price data look stale?.

no listing in a row means none of the shops you are showing has a price that passes your filters. Check the shops row and the stock chips.

Click any tile to open that shop's product page.

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