Download of the Week: InvisibleHand browser add-on

User Comments: 12

1. March 25, 2011 4:11 PM
   

   Trillionsin said:

   Anyone on here try this yet? Worth a shot?

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2. March 25, 2011 5:20 PM
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   Julio Franco, TechSpot Editor, said:

   We are recommending it for a reason, we have tried it, good enough?

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3. March 25, 2011 5:56 PM
   andreasf93 said:

   I've used it few times. It's useful, but sometimes it can be annoying.

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4. March 25, 2011 8:02 PM
   PinothyJ said:

   Why does everyone forget Australia ? Oh well, I have the same thing available for OzGameShop.com which works exactly the same...

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5. March 25, 2011 10:53 PM
   Guest said:

   I have used it for quite some time, it has saved me some money. It's not so annoying to me. When it comes across an item I am looking at, a yellow bar appears at the top with the lowest price it can find, very simple.

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6. March 26, 2011 1:41 AM
   

   Darkshadoe said:

   Julio said:

   We are recommending it for a reason, we have tried it, good enough?

   Actually Juilo, it isn't good enough. The article sounded more like an advertisement than an in depth critique of the product. How safe is this product?, Is it full of bloatware? Is the installation easy?, Is the uninstall a pain?..Where are these type of questions and their answers?

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7. March 26, 2011 5:29 AM
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   Jos said:

   @darkshadoe Fair enough. These posts are not meant as in depth reviews but rather as recommendations of things we encounter and find useful. That said, some of the questions you ask are answered on the linked FAQ page. About installing/uninstalling, it's a 160KB browser extension, so that should take less than a second and no more than a single click.

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8. March 26, 2011 11:17 AM
   phillai said:

   I can't seem to get this working in Firefox 4...

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9. March 27, 2011 9:32 AM
   Guest said:

   I have used it several times. Match quality is fair, speed is sometimes slow. But worth having on. However I found another add-on called FreePriceAlerts that I have been running at the same time, seems faster, better matches and the prices they find are usually lower. The Alerts is a lot less obtrusive then invisible Hand as well.

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10. March 27, 2011 10:29 AM
    Dawnr said:

    I too have used Invisible Hand in the past. At times it seemed to crash my browser and seemed a bit sluggish. Late last year I discovered FreePriceAlerts and have been using that exclusively now.

    It was a simple download, sits in the background until you need it and I like how with FreePriceAlerts you can set up an alert for when the item drops in price you get an email notification.

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11. March 28, 2011 4:07 AM
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    Julio Franco, TechSpot Editor, said:

    Actually Juilo, it isn't good enough. The article sounded more like an advertisement than an in depth critique of the product. How safe is this product?, Is it full of bloatware? Is the installation easy?, Is the uninstall a pain?..Where are these type of questions and their answers?

    Well, no we wouldn't recommend anything unsafe or full of bloatware, that's supposed to be a given. We won't ever mix advertisement with editorial, another given for us. Installation? For a browser add-on?... Anyhow, like Jose mentioned, our Download of the Week series is meant to bring to your attention tools or software that we've tried and consider useful, not necessarily must-haves to everybody.

    Furthermore, as it just happened with this recommendation, our readers' collective knowledge came up with an alternative solution (FreePriceAlerts) that according to some of you is a superior choice. Way to go!

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12. August 4, 2011 2:52 PM
    Guest said:

    I've tried this and a few other and have settled on the BargainMatch Firefox Extension.

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