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Shopping: compare store prices in one search

Shopping 3 min read Beginner Updated

Shopping is not part of 4Orange. It runs on 4search.com. You can read this guide here, and use Shopping on 4search.com.
On this page
  1. How it works
  2. What Shopping does, and what it does not
  3. Where the information comes from
  4. Common questions

Shopping searches many online stores at once for the product you want and lays their offers side by side: the price, the shipping, whether it is new or refurbished, and when the price was checked. When you find the offer you like, Go to takes you to that store's own page to buy it.

On 4Search, the Shopping tab compares store prices. On other sites of the 4 Network, the Shopping tab shows shopping news and articles, with a link to search Amazon.

#How it works

  1. Select the Shopping tab and type what you want: a product (sony wh-1000xm6), a kind of thing (wireless headphones), or both with a limit (wireless headphones under $50).

  2. Store prices fills in after a few seconds, as the stores answer. Each card is one product with its best offer.

    Store prices for the search wireless headphones: a Sort menu and a New only checkbox, a line naming the stores the prices come from, and a grid of product cards each showing a picture, a title, a price, the store and a Go to button

    Store prices for wireless headphones. The line above the cards says which stores answered and when their prices were checked.

    1. 1Sort: Best match, Lowest price or Most stores
    2. 2New only hides used and refurbished offers
    3. 3The stores the prices come from, and when they were checked
    4. 4One product, with its best offer

  3. Sort the cards, or tick New only. See Sort and narrow the results.

  4. Select Compare on a card to see every store's price for that product in one table. See A product's prices at each store.

  5. Select Go to to open the offer on the store's own site, where you check the final price and buy.

Open Shopping

#What Shopping does, and what it does not

  • It finds and compares offers. It does not sell anything: there is no cart, no checkout and no payment on 4Search. You buy from the store, under the store's terms, prices, shipping and returns.
  • It shows when each price was checked. Stores change prices often; the price at the store's checkout is the one that counts. See How fresh the prices are.
  • It does not keep a price history or send price alerts. It shows today's offers.
  • It may earn a commission when you buy through some store links, at no extra cost to you, and says so beside the links. See Store links and commissions.

#Where the information comes from

  • Prices, shipping, stock and product pictures come from the stores themselves, read from what each store shows its own shoppers, at the moment you search or shortly before.
  • Ratings, when a card has one, are the store's own customer rating, shown as the store gives it and credited to that store ("4.6 of 5 at Lenovo"). 4Search does not add ratings of its own.
  • Which stores answer depends on what you search for: big general stores, and specialist stores that sell that kind of thing. See Which stores Shopping checks.

The Shopping home, before you search, shows the latest shopping news.

#Common questions

Is Shopping free?

Yes. Searching and comparing are free, and buying through a link costs you nothing extra.

Can I buy something on 4Search?

No. 4Search never takes payment or an order. Go to opens the store's own page, and you buy there.

Who do I contact about an order?

The store you bought from. 4Search is not part of the sale and cannot see or change orders.

Read next

Shopping Search Shopping and read the results What to type in Shopping, how offers are grouped into products, and what each part of a product card means, from price to the store rating. Shopping A product's prices at each store The comparison page lists every store's offer for one product: price, shipping, total, condition and when it was checked, cheapest new first. Shopping How fresh the prices are, and what to do when a store's price differs Every price says when it was checked. Here is what that time means, why a store's own price can differ, and what to do before you buy. Shopping Store links and commissions Some store links earn 4Search a commission at no cost to you. What that means, what it never changes, and where to read the full disclosure.