Internet: inside a new price comparison web site in Nigeria as from middle of September 2012

Initiated by MIH Internet, which is also behind the recently rebranded Dealfish (now OLX), a classifieds adds website. It is also the company that owned Kalahari Nigeria, a 10-month old retail that was closed citing “performance of the service has been below expectation since launch and reaching profitability was not a reasonable near-term prospect”

The site waited during middle of September 2012, will offer Nigeria’s online users services including comparison of commodity prices.

Motivated more or less by its successful price comparison directory called PriceCheck based in South Africa.  MIH Internet aims to do better .In fact the site allows users to compare products in online retail shops, and claims to be the leading price comparison site in the country.

Some of the products available on the site include computers, software, electronics, cellphones and their accessories, jewellery among others.

These are sourced from trusted vendors and credible brand names, using the most sophisticated price comparison technology, to offer the fastest and most relevant search.

MIH also has similar services in Brazil called Bondfaro and Buscape, claimed to be the largest comparison sites in Latin America.