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comparis.ch – a successful idea
comparis.ch is the leading Swiss Internet comparison service. On comparis.ch,
consumers can compare rates and services of health insurances, insurances, banks,
telecom providers, property, cars and con-sumer electronics easy and fast. Thanks
to the comparis.ch comparisons and ratings, consumers can directly change to the
provider with the best price-performance ratio.
comparis.ch was founded in 1996 by the economist Richard Eisler. His idea of
offering consumers a fast premiums comparison in the jungle of the health insurance
market proved to be successful. Since then, over 500,000 persons have changed their
health insurance provider via comparis.ch. Thereby, people changing their health
insurance save over 300 million francs per year.
Since June of 2000, comparis.ch is a public limited company based in Zurich
and employs more than 80 persons.
Who likes to pay more for the same services? Nobody! According to a
representative survey, over 90 percent of the Swiss population thinks that saving
money is a positive thing. However, today's market with its various rates, premiums,
fees and reductions makes a comparison a real challenge for consumers. comparis.ch
makes sure that offers can be compared properly. Constantly, the Internet comparison
ser-vice observes and analyses over 1 million premiums of health insurances and
insurances, over 90,000 telecom rates, about 250,000 offers for cars, property and
consumer electronics as well as over 1,000 interest rates for mortgages and credit
offers. These services make consumers more powerful than ever – as they can see
within seconds where the best offer for the best price is made.
comparis.ch is only obligated to the interests of the consumers. Therefore,
only the original prices of the providers are shown in the comparisons. Loss-leader
prices or hidden fees are not to be found. com-paris.ch also does not mince matters
if the experts detect unfair rates which might deceive consumers. Many a provider
already had to revise his offer after public criticism from comparis.ch.
The comparis.ch comparisons are comprehensive and take all market-relevant providers
of an industry who make their rates available online into consideration. No provider
shares in comparis.ch. Also, all of the comparisons are constantly online. Nobody
could be privileged by comparis.ch, as the competition would realise straight away
and take the according steps. This guarantees the neutrality of the compari-sons
and ratings.
comparis.ch counted over 17 million visitors last year and therefore belongs
to the most-used Swiss web-sites. Three out of four Internet users know the independent
comparison service. They appreciate the transparency and savings opportunities,
which arise from the comparisons. comparis.ch sees this sign of confidence as a
large mission to constantly offer completely reliable and neutral comparisons.
If you yourself have once already made the effort to compare the offers for a certain product, you will know how difficult and time-consuming this is. Which provider is selling the product at what price? What are the conditions? Can the products really be compared or are they actually different products? At comparis.ch, more than 80 people work on the task of answering these questions for consumers. Be it insurances, mobile phone contracts or consumer electronics – behind each comparison, permanent market observation and elaborate analysis take place.
comparis.ch finances the comparisons through the sales of advertisements as well as the forwarding of clicks and offer requests to the providers who want to make use of these services. Depending on the sector, this service costs from 30 francs per request and is the same for all providers. In average, every third request leads to a deal – this is shown by the annual survey among Comparis users. In return, the insurance companies can strongly reduce their expenses for insurance agents, call centers and administrative processes. Admission and sequence of providers in the comparison are independent from whether they make use of the comparis.ch services or not.
For users, the comparis.ch services are basically free of charge. In the Mortgage Market, a nominal fee is charged in order to guarantee the seriousness of the requests.
1. comparis.ch strives to offer comprehensive rate and service comparisons for all
sectors of offers. The-reby, comparis.ch depends on the providers to make the relevant
information available.
2. comparis.ch strives to be able to admit at least those providers of a product
or service sector who co-ver the major part of the total market.
3. In order to be admitted to a comparis.ch comparison, the rates of the provider
have to be created in such a way that they are comparable with the other offers.
4. Regardless of an eventual business connection, comparis.ch admits providers to
the comparisons in terms of market transparency.
5. comparis.ch only compiles ranking lists depending on objectively measurable criteria
based on the data made available by the providers.
It is our goal for 80-100% of users to be able to compare their
current provider's products with the market competition.
Health insurance
Banks
Telecom
Other insurance
Find and evaluate property, cars and consumer
elctronics
comparis.ch
Stampfenbachstrasse 48
CH-8006 Zürich
E-mail: info@comparis.ch
Phone: +41 (0)44 360 52 62
Fax: +41 (0)44 360 52 72
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