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Features
(partial list)
- Use ScoutPal interactively with any device that can communicate:
- Cell phones/PDA's with WAP or HTML web browsers and data service.
- Cell phones/PDA's using SMS messaging or email.
- A desktop or laptop computer, at
http://ie.scoutpal.com
- Any sort of phone (including landlines) using
ScoutPal IVR (Interactive Voice Response).
- Use
ScoutPalDB on a Windows Mobile Pocket PC and
get abbreviated INSTANT Amazon lookups from a database. (Optional full
interactive ScoutPal lookups when internet-connected.)
- With interactive ScoutPal:
- Get results from Amazon.com, and optionally uk.amazon.com,
de.amazon.com, abebooks.com, and pricegrabber.com
- Customize the
content and format of your results of
your results. Examples:
- Pare your results down to just the lowest price and sales rank.
- Truncate the title by number of characters or words to conserve
cellphone screen space.
- Depending on your phone browser, add bold/italic/underline to
each information item.
- Search by ISBN or UPC for any item listed on Amazon by the ISBN or
UPC, including books, CD's, DVD's, games, other media forms, and even
consumer goods like non-perishable groceries, electronics, tools,
office supplies, etc.
- Be alerted to Pending Pre-Orders. ("buyer waiting")
- Get a list of other/previous editions. Very important for
textbook searches!
- Optionally search by Library of Congress number or title.
- "Drill down" to the underlying 3rd party listings to see seller
Nicknames, offering descriptions and prices, and feedback ratings.
- Create your own custom result display formula. Can be used
to alert you when items meet your own "buy" criteria.
- Get a "price graph" of pricing trends. Useful for spotting
pricing "lowball" anomalies that mask the true value of a book.
- Select the number of lowest prices to be shown on the initial
search screen.
- Get notified when you search for a book that is in your own
inventory alert list.
- Get alerts on offerings from specific seller Nicknames.
Useful for weeding out offerings from sellers who "spam" the
marketplace with inappropriate pricing.
- All ScoutPal services are compatible with EAN-13 bar code scans.
- Scan interactively with the
ScoutPalSE3 and
ScoutPalSE4 phone scanner systems.
- Buy/Sell your scouting finds to other ScoutPals through the ScoutPal Network.
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