Pricenoia

Very cool website.

Amazon comparison shopping, international style.

Simply put a book, CD, DVD, or game into the search box, and up comes the price - in your currency, with shipping costs to your country added in.

Interestingly - or of necessity, I guess - the site's "In association with Amazon."

The fellow who reviewed it for Cool Tools, where I found it, said that prices vary tons between different Amazon stores, and that it is "absolutely false" that the best store to order from is the nearest one.

He points out that music and DVDs are cheaper for Americans from Amazon Canada (not included on Pricenoia, so you've got to go there directly) than from the U.S. store.

And that Europeans can usually get stuff cheaper from the U.S. - including shipping - than from any European store.

There's also a bookmarklet - whatever that is - that lets you compare prices while you're examining a product page at Amazon, and a graph of price evolution over time for every product in every store.

How do you spell arbitrage?

[via Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools]