Today’s post can have several titles. It could be call Price Comparison. It could be called Good Better Best. Or it could even be titled Finding the Best Possible Quality at the Best Possible Price. However, I have title it Website for Finding What You Want. All the titles summing up what I have written.

On the internet there is a lot of websites offering the best deal for almost everything you can think of buying. If you believe what you read, you may just be losing quality and money. Why?

Everyone who puts up any kind of website wants to sell you something. They can make it look good. They can make it look like you are getting a real deal, by quoting a suggested retail price and their discount of 50% or more. They tell you it is high quality and you should buy it now.

There are two things about this mere statement “Discount of 50%” that is misleading. First, it is a foolish waste of money to pay suggested retail price, or even manufacture’s list price for anything. That number is what suckers pay. Second, the 50% discount is telling me there is some other place where I can possibly get the very same item for less money. So what do I use for a frame of reference for when pricing any goods or services?

It will soon be our daughter’s 10th birthday. She wants a MP3. Eventually, she has been looking around. She knows which one she wants at what price, and from what store.

As a true protective parent I want to make sure the MP3 player that she gets will be the best one for her. The first place I went was to the internet and Cnet.com to look at their ratings of MP3 players. Cnet.com showed 287 players for under $50. Then I started to scan through the list.

It would of have taken me several days to look at all 287 MP3 players. So I filter to user rating. There was only two that were rated by users. Both of them were SanDisk. The same brand the my MP3 player is.

Kodak has done an okay job in the transitioned from film to digital cameras. It is hard to go from one day being an household name and industry leader to just one of the players. I believe they have this job well.

Now the Kodak EasyShare M341 is Kodak’s offering to the Point-and-Shoot category of cameras. Starting with the 12 Mega pixels going to the built in flash makes this camera look like a keeper. It does take decent picture from 2 to 11 feet away from the subject. The zoom lens goes from 35 to105 mm from the 3x optical lens.

The ability to capture video clips in 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 in the Quick Time format is nice. Then you add a low end microphone. Now you can capture and upload those spontaneous videos to YouTube that we all enjoy.

A SD memory card, USB cable and Kodak’s own software makes it easy for the non-photographer capture and edit pictures.