Website for comparing UK prices for gold sovereigns, britannias, etc

[Darr3nG]

Been playing around with a bit of scripting and have the following output working locally:

Next step is to figure out how to run on a webserver and update a webpage... (all for free!)

Watch this space

[Liam81]

32 minutes ago, Darr3nG said:

Been playing around with a bit of scripting and have the following output working locally:

Next step is to figure out how to run on a webserver and update a webpage... (all for free!)

Watch this space

That's fantastic and let's  be honest, it's useful to have all the dealer prices compared on a single page. Thanks for your effort. Very much appreciated. 

[sovereignsteve]

49 minutes ago, Darr3nG said:

Next step is to figure out how to run on a webserver and update a webpage... (all for free!)

I like your style, you fit in well here😉keep up the good work.

[Darr3nG]

Found some free hosting: http://goldprice.eu5.net/

Apologies for how bad it looks, design was never my strength (anyone want to take a go at tidying up the css...?  )

Not fully automated, updating (yet) - I'm just manually overwriting the html file during testing.

Let me know what you think, hope you enjoy some FREE price comparisons.

[Stu]

15 minutes ago, Darr3nG said:

Found some free hosting: http://goldprice.eu5.net/

Apologies for how bad it looks, design was never my strength (anyone want to take a go at tidying up the css...?  )

Not fully automated, updating (yet) - I'm just manually overwriting the html file during testing.

Let me know what you think, hope you enjoy some FREE price comparisons.

Top man, looks grand. Only suggestion I would make was to put on a sliding scale , cheapest to most expensive if easy enough to do.

 

[sovereignsteve]

Links to the web pages too, very good😊

[TheGeneral]

Love it.  Thanks very much. 

[h103efa]

1 hour ago, Darr3nG said:

Found some free hosting: http://goldprice.eu5.net/

Apologies for how bad it looks, design was never my strength (anyone want to take a go at tidying up the css...?  )

Not fully automated, updating (yet) - I'm just manually overwriting the html file during testing.

Let me know what you think, hope you enjoy some FREE price comparisons.

Awesome, I love the ms dos look you had before! 

[Darr3nG]

9 minutes ago, h103efa said:

Awesome, I love the ms dos look you had before! 

 That was actally a screenshot from my console output (like ms dos), but interesting... It may be a ncer way to style it on the website. Thank you.

[Elements]

What language are you using? I’ve just recently learnt how to scrape info from websites using python.

43 minutes ago, Darr3nG said:

 That was actally a screenshot from my console output (like ms dos), but interesting... It may be a ncer way to style it on the website. Thank you.

 

[Darr3nG]

8 minutes ago, Elements said:

What language are you using? I’ve just recently learnt how to scrape info from websites using python.

 

Python with BeautifulSoup

[Elements]

Just now, Darr3nG said:

Python with BeautifulSoup

Excellent that’s what I learnt. Good job well done!

[Miganto]

"Note: Delivery has been included in the prices, where available [Bairds: £7.50, Chards: £9.00, HGM: £6.95, Coin Invest: £15.95, Gold Investments: £10.00 (sov)]"

 

I tip my hat to you, good sir!

 

[Melon]

2 hours ago, Darr3nG said:

Found some free hosting: http://goldprice.eu5.net/

Apologies for how bad it looks, design was never my strength (anyone want to take a go at tidying up the css...?  )

Not fully automated, updating (yet) - I'm just manually overwriting the html file during testing.

Let me know what you think, hope you enjoy some FREE price comparisons.

Really good and easy to use - love it. 

Regarding the delivery being included in the price, I wonder if there's a way to show both prices (or like a switch you can flick to include/exclude delivery)? A small thing, but for folk who want to buy 3 sovs for example, the delivery charge won't increase which may change the order prices. 

(TLDR - ideally I'd like an option to see the prices without delivery charge as well)

Edited November 16, 2019 by Melon

[Miganto]

11 minutes ago, Melon said:

Really good and easy to use - love it. 

Regarding the delivery being included in the price, I wonder if there's a way to show both prices (or like a switch you can flick to include/exclude delivery)? A small thing, but for folk who want to buy 3 sovs for example, the delivery charge won't increase which may change the order prices. 

(TLDR - ideally I'd like an option to see the prices without delivery charge as well)

The 'issue' is that buying more also reduces the cost per unit you pay due to their sliding scale of prices, so if you do want to buy more you should be heading to the their site anyway as some offer a discount and others don't.

[Fastnick]

"Superb" and "Thank you!" are the words that come to mind.....

[AndrewSL76]

This is very much appreciated. I would almost suggest starting a new thread for this because this current one has too many ghosts...

Awesome work and thank you once again.

[LawrenceChard]

On 10/08/2019 at 12:06, AuricGoldfinger said:

The website is great.

 

 

 

BUT

 

 

 

There’s one MASSIVE problem that no one has mentioned yet. 

 

 

 

 

£300 is too bloody expensive for a sovereign! 😁

That's what someone said about £4 each back in 1964!

 

[Midasfrog]

On 07/03/2020 at 16:47, LawrenceChard said:

That's what someone said about £4 each back in 1964!

 

That was me that said that , I was only two years old and pocket money was 1d a week took me years to save up for my first sovereign 💰

[LawrenceChard]

7 minutes ago, Midasfrog said:

That was me that said that , I was only two years old and pocket money was 1d a week took me years to save up for my first sovereign 💰

My pocket money was 2/6 per week (a halfcrown), which was one of the lowest figures in our school class (lowest decile). I also got paid 2/6 per hour working for our family business (amusement arcade in Blackpool). There was no mimimum wage in those days, but it would have been about £10 for a 40 hour week, so about 5/- (25 pence) per hour.

But now I have blown it, and nobody will believe I am still only 29.

 

[LawrenceChard]

On 08/08/2019 at 19:42, Guest said:

Hi all,

I recently launched a little side project of mine for monitoring the prices of gold sovereigns by UK dealers:

https://goldcompare.net

At the moment functionality and looks are very basic; it refresh automatically every 2 minutes and watches a few of the most reputable dealers that I know of.

I wanted to share it in case someone else finds it useful. It's completely free and donations are accepted to keep it running.

Any constructive feedback is welcome. Thanks!

I only became aware of this whole thread a few days ago, with a very recent post, but I ended up reading the whole lot from start to end.

I never got to try the original price comparison site, but I was impressed by the heap of favourable responses thre were for it, then I read further, when "Guest" mentioned moving it to a more expensive UK based server, followed by starting to charge for it.

I had already thought that "Guest" sounded rather young, slightly naive, but well-intentioned, but I found myself feeling slightly shocked at how quickly the positive comments turned negative, and even vitriolic (trollish?). I ended up feeling quite sorry for him (that's sexist), or her.

I do have some more observations, but it's getting late...

 

[Kman]

@Darr3nG I have hosting with TSOHost where I can give your site a free spot if you want it

I also have some good domains names you could use, or I will register one of your choice if you like? (.co.uk or .uk)

 

[Darr3nG]

@LawrenceChard - you can continue the reading here [ https://thesilverforum.com/topic/26565-compare-gold-prices-uk-free-website/  ] and see how my "challenger" site evolved.

I too followed this thread and it actually pushed me to re-learn some skills, I hadn't used in a while.

 

@Kman - thanks for the offer, but this project isn't costing too much. I found a cheap VPS service and just have been too lazy to move the front-end hosting - not bothered about the domain name as I don't plan on commercialising (more on that decision in the link ^)

 

[Oldun]

On 15/11/2019 at 08:30, Darr3nG said:

Been playing around with a bit of scripting and have the following output working locally:

Next step is to figure out how to run on a webserver and update a webpage... (all for free!)

Watch this space

Is this the actual raw spot price from each outfit ?

 I ask as Atkinsons, for example, include shipping in their pricing I believe (apologies if wrong)

[Kman]

1 minute ago, Darr3nG said:

 

@Kman - thanks for the offer, but this project isn't costing too much. I found a cheap VPS service and just have been too lazy to move the front-end hosting - not bothered about the domain name as I don't plan on commercialising (more on that decision in the link ^)

 

Ahh I just sent you a pm before I read this

Well the offer is there if you want in future

Maybe it's because I'm in domains but if you're going to have a site you have to have the right domain 😤 just feels wrong not to