Knowledge is Wealth.
Whoever said that, said that rightly. Now, to get hold of knowledge takes time. And someone, may be the same guy who said the above or his friend or his step-brother or may be his second wife, had also, at some point or the other, said that time is money. That, in a way, put me in a tight situation. Well, neither was I comfortable in those jeans which everyone wore in the 90s, nor I felt comfortable in the said tight situation dealing with knowledge, time and money.
So, in the absence of knowledge, which resides mostly in head, I listened to my heart and went to my favourite book seller’s website, promoted by really witty kids on TV, and ordered books worth roughly INR 2000, only to realize ten days later that I could have saved at least 30% of the total cost had I ordered the books from two different online sellers, who were selling at much lower prices. That was the knowledge I didn’t have, which I could have had if I had the time and the patience, of course.
But, now providing some alleviation to the nasty problem of knowledge, time and money (KTM), here is www.koolkart.com. The website allows you to do a lot more than what I could mention here, considering that knowing all its functionalities is also a part of the KTM problem.
KoolKart allows you and your friend (facebook friends, to be precise) to share your opinions on various products ranging from books, mobiles, laptops, apparels to beauty products and home décor. You can review the products and share the review. You can tell your friends about the products you have added in your wish-list and more importantly, you can check if your friends have recommended the product you wish to purchase.
But what I really like is that it allows me (I guess it would allow you as well) to compare prices of these products (so far only Books, Mobiles, Laptops and Cameras are covered) across all online sellers. Now that is what I was looking for, to solve the great KTM problem.
Not only that, KoolKart gives you a useful functionality in the form of a ‘button’ which you can add to the bookmark bar of your web browser. Now, this button, which is captioned as ‘Koolkart it!’, does save a lot of time and saves you from gruelling key pressing activities. Imagine this: You have found the book which you were looking for and you just want to order it from, say, flipkart or bookadda or infibeam (Do they also sell steel bars/rods/rails?!). Now, you find that the book costs some XYZ bucks on flipkart and you wonder if you can get it for less. Just stay on the flipkart page (or whichever site you checked the price on) and click the ‘Koolkart it!’ button on the bookmark bar of your web browser. Lo and behold, in a new window the price of the book from all available (may be leading) online sellers. That’s useful, isn’t it?
