A service that helps online shoppers save when prices drop, Paribus, has raised $2.1 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business following the startup’s participation in the Y Combinator summer program and TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015, where it first debuted. The company’s idea is to take a process that consumers were used to managing by themselves when they shopped…
E-commerce has created a world of incredible, even disturbing convenience. The average American living in a major city can now outsource nearly every chore imaginable, while having everything she would ever need delivered to her home within a couple of hours. But along with the convenience comes a growing suspicion we may be overpaying. Prices on the web change constantly. On one day in 2013, Internet Retailer magazine found that Amazon changed prices on 40 million products. And price changes arenât...