{"id":208,"date":"2011-04-20T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T10:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/?p=208"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:40:38","slug":"comparison-sites-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/comparison-sites-whats-the-big-deal","title":{"rendered":"Comparison sites&#8230;what\u2019s the big deal!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t too long ago that the only comparison site of any note was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelkoo.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kelkoo<\/a>, now you can compare everything from toasters and holidays to gas bills and wine!<\/p>\n<p>British consumers are still extremely wary of spending their money, with significant government cuts meaning many more people are likely to be made redundant this year \u2013 the words \u2018double dip recession\u2019 are constantly in the back of people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n<p>Brits want to spend money and enjoy their hard earned cash, but they also want the best deal. So, comparison sites are becoming increasingly more popular, as consumers are determined to pay the lowest price.<\/p>\n<p>Couriers signing up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\">deliveryquotecompare.com<\/a> as transport providers can take advantage of this growing trend, by offering their courier services to savvy shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t stop there though, in general online shopping is on the up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/courier\/the-importance-of-offering-your-courier-services-to-ebay-customers\/2011\/04\/201.html\">eBay\u2019s sales soar<\/a> so too do online sales \u2013 in March alone UK shoppers spent more than \u00a35 billion online, according to the latest figures from ecommerce trade body the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imrg.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">IMRG<\/a>\u00b8 a 14% jump on the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Verdict Researchs&#8217; Webloyalty Online Retail Report predicts the amount of money spent online will grow by \u00a314 billion between 2010 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>All this is brilliant news for couriers; if it\u2019s bought online it <strong>has<\/strong> to be delivered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t too long ago that the only comparison site of any note was Kelkoo, now you can compare everything from toasters and holidays to gas bills and wine! British consumers are still extremely wary of spending their money, with significant government cuts meaning many more people are likely to be made redundant this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}