How we pick stores

Sending people to the cheapest price is only useful if the store is real and actually ships. Every store on Compare Empire is added by hand after a check, and it stays only while it keeps passing. No store pays to be listed or to rank higher: prices are always sorted by price.

Before a store is added

It is an established shop. Its website has been around for a while (we look up when the domain was registered, and a domain under a year old gets a much closer look), with a business name, a real email or phone, and its own refund and shipping policies.
Other buyers know it. It has reviews (Trustpilot, Google) or is known in the community: official stockist and store-finder lists, and recommendations from buyers.
We read its prices from its own shop. In its own currency, product by product, and a listing must match exactly or it is left out.
No marketplace sellers, drop-shippers or copycat sites, and never a store anyone has reported as a scam.

After it is listed

A weekly check of every store's website. A store whose site stops answering, is parked or up for sale, or suddenly moves to a different address is taken off. New bad reviews or missing contact details get a look by hand.
Too-good-to-be-true prices are dropped. With three or more stores selling the same product, a price under 55% of their median is dropped automatically, and used, refurbished and store-bundle listings are left out. A price like that is usually a mistake or the wrong product, so it is never shown as the cheapest.
Reported stores are checked first. A store that turns out to be a scam is removed from every Compare Empire site and banned for good.

eBay and Amazon rows are marketplaces, not stores: they are labelled and never counted as a store. We don't vet the individual sellers there, so check a seller's feedback before you buy.

Report a store

Had a problem with a store we list, or does one look wrong to you? Tell us here. You don't need an account. Know a good shop for products we are missing? Suggest it.

Before you buy anywhere

Pay by card or PayPal, which let you dispute a charge. Be careful with a shop that only takes bank transfer or crypto.
A price far under every other store is a warning sign, not a bargain.
Check the shop's contact page and policies, and look it up on Trustpilot or Google before a big order.