How Fordeal works

Where the prices come from

From the shops themselves: their public product pages and the XML feeds they publish for comparison sites and affiliate networks. We compare shops in Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Austria and Hungary; more countries follow in waves.

We read only public data, identify ourselves as FordealBot, obey every shop's robots.txt and fetch a page at most twice a day. A shop that refuses bots is read from its official feed or not at all.

• Every price carries the time we saw it; a price older than 36 hours is marked as stale.
• A product is matched by its EAN first; a name match must carry every distinguishing word, otherwise the offer is not shown.

How the total is computed

Goods price plus shipping to your country, converted with the Czech National Bank rate of the day, which is shown next to the price. Inside the EU a consumer pays the price the shop shows; no VAT is added or removed.

When a shop does not say what it charges to ship to your country, the total is a lower bound and that offer can never be the recommendation.

How we rank

By total price and shop trust. Nothing else. There is no paid placement and no partner bonus, and there never will be.

• A shop on the ČOI (Czechia) or SOI (Slovakia) list of risky e-shops is never shown.
• A shop without a customer rating is shown with a warning and never recommended first, even when it is the cheapest.
• A cross-border offer is recommended only together with the block that says what buying abroad means.

Where the ratings come from

Shop ratings are read from public sources: Google reviews of the shop's verified business profile, and the review pages of Heureka, Zboží.cz, Ceneo, Trusted Shops and Trustpilot where they are readable. A shop without a readable rating is shown as "no rating available" and is never recommended first; we never make one up.

How Fordeal earns

When you buy through our link, the shop pays us a commission, typically 2 to 8 percent. It does not raise your price and it does not affect the order. The commission is disclosed in the footer of every page.

There are no banners, no third-party ads, no newsletter and no mandatory registration. A paid price watch may come later; the comparison stays free.

Your data

You search and compare without any account. An optional sign-in by e-mail link (no password) only unlocks favourites and price watches; that e-mail is used for nothing else. No tracking cookies; analytics run without cookies. We also store the questions asked (to show the last verdicts, without personal data) and clicks on offers (to count savings).

For AI agents

Everything on this site is also an MCP tool and a REST endpoint with the same answer card. See the agent documentation.