Frucall: Check Prices Via Text Message
Have you ever wondered whether you were being quoted a fair price in a brick and mortar store? Have you ever wanted to learn more about a product before handing your credit card to a cashier? Now you can find online prices and reviews quickly and for free using a new service from Frucall. With a simple SMS message using your Treo smartphone, you can gain a wealth of information.
Recently we interviewed the CEO and Marketing Director of the company. Learn more about the service watching our exclusive video!
Frucall Interview
Overview
Frucall Text is a fast, easy-to-use service that allows consumers to search for online prices via 2-way SMS. Frucall users simply send an SMS message to a specific number and include the characters “fru s” followed by a product barcode in the body of the message. The search results are quickly sent back to the user’s phone. There are also a number of useful short cuts that can be used with Frucall Text to access other Frucall features. Frucall Text is currently in beta and consumers are invited to send an email to support@frucall.com to get more information on how to access this service.
Frucall Text Benefits
For SMS savvy users, Frucall Text is a simple and fast way to access and compare online prices of products with their cell phones anytime and anywhere. Frucall Text works on all SMS-enabled cell phones and is a convenient and accurate way to compare the best prices from major online merchants. Frucall Text also has the ability to save all users’ searches for later access through the Frucall.com site. The same information obtained from Frucall Text is also available via audio when calling 1-888-DO-FRUCALL or on the Frucall.com site.
Frucall Text Features
- Fast access to online price comparison via 2-way SMS
- Easy input via product barcode number assures correct identification
- Multiple vendor prices are instantly returned
- Searches can be saved and can be accessed at any time via the Frucall.com site or through 1-888-DO-FRUCALL
- Use Frucall Text to show in-store vendors current online pricing for bargaining leverage
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Interesting service.
However, for a company that claims to be very concerned with data protection, it’s not a great sign that their signup page doesn’t use SSL - in other words I would not give them any of my credit card or other data since my logon and password is going over the internet in plain text to them…..
Thanks for mentioning Frucall! We’re glad to see you find our services useful. Joad is right, we disabled SSL temporarily for a few days due to security certificate changes. SSL will be turned on again by the end of today, so there’s no need to be concerned about the protection of your personal data. Feel free to send us any comments or suggestions you may have!
Thanks for the response! I did notice that AFTER you signup and give a password you are fed SSL pages later - I was able to *change* the password under SSL, just seemed odd I couldn’t sign up that way. Anyhow, it seems Frucall is responding to this issue and that’s a good sign…
I just tried this service, works great and is a great idea….I find it funny that my barcode search for a product was sponsored by naughty next door girls….lol Not that theres any pictures, but my mom wouldnt get a kick out of it. But great product, and make that advertising money!