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    * FindTheBest.com was an American price comparison service that was discontinued
    * FindTheBest.com was an American price comparison service that was discontinued
    * The [[w:de:Flower Label Program|Flower Label Program]] [http://flp.greendata.de/ flp.greendata.de] was a German initiative started in 1999 that took part in creating the [[Fair Flowers and Fair Plants]]-[[label]].
    * The [[w:de:Flower Label Program|Flower Label Program]] [http://flp.greendata.de/ flp.greendata.de] was a German initiative started in 1999 that took part in creating the [[Fair Flowers and Fair Plants]]-[[label]].
    * formaxcredit.co.uk was a P2B financing service in the UK, that planned to offer ISA. Found broken in Dec 2021
    * furniturejunction.co.uk was a British furniture finder and price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    * furniturejunction.co.uk was a British furniture finder and price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    * <s>www.futureforests.com/</s> - A project for making products [[carbon neutral]] by planting enough [[tree]]s to absorb the amount of [[carbon]] emissions caused by the production of the [[product]]. Currently mostly about music records that want a fun [[label]] to print on the cd-sleeve. It'd be nice to see a [[burning rock]] [[power plant]] have this label.
    * <s>www.futureforests.com/</s> - A project for making products [[carbon neutral]] by planting enough [[tree]]s to absorb the amount of [[carbon]] emissions caused by the production of the [[product]]. Currently mostly about music records that want a fun [[label]] to print on the cd-sleeve. It'd be nice to see a [[burning rock]] [[power plant]] have this label.

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    Consumerium alphabetical list of projects, sites, services and companies that no longer exist

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    • 1traveler1book.org was a program to encourage travelers to bring at least 1 book to be distributed to children of school age living in various regions in Indonesia.

    4

    • 4insiders.de/ was a German books and CDs price comparison service found defunct in Spring 2017

    A

    • A-B.ie was a nationwide independent multimodal traveler router for Ireland discontinued in 2016.
    • www.airline-direct.es/ was a Spanish price comparison service for flights and cars. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • arboribus.com was a Spanish P2B lending service for business loans. Host not found in Dec 2021
    • Association Electronic Libre (www.ael.be) was a Belgian site. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • aurorax.co was a P2P lending service for consumers in Finland. It was founded in 2017. Domain was found to be parked and on sale in Dec 2021

    B

    • badcorp.org/ - had a very interesting search engine in the 00's for figuring out who owns who! This is essential to track those constantly-changing names.
    • beatthatquote.com was a British personal finance products price comparison service. Discontinued in 2013.
    • bestreviewratings.com was a supplement review aggregator. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.bestwebbuys.com/ used to an American price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • billiger-reisen.de was a German price comparison service for travel products
    • billybargain.co.uk was a price comparison service for DVDs, blu-rays, games, books and music. Notice of the service no longer being provided found in the Summer of 2018.
    • btcjam.com - Used to offer BTC based P2P loans. Found discontinued in Dec 2021
    • bluelilo.com was an UK holiday price comparison service. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • bookbutler.co.uk used to be a price comparison service for books. As of 2021-01 redirects to Amazon.com
    • www.bookbrain.co.uk/ used to be a price comparison service for books. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.bookhq.com/ used to be an American book price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.bookkoob.co.uk was a British price comparison service for books. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • bookprice24.co.uk was an UK book price comparison service. Removed by anon in 2020-12 as site cannot be found anymore
    • bookprice24.in was an Indian book price comparison service. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • bookrenter.com was a British site to rent or buy textbooks. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • thebookscore.net TheBookscore.net] was a review site or review aggregator for books. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www1.bottomdollar.com/ was an American price comparison service later acquired by PriceGrabber.com.
    • Buffalo CarShare www.buffalocarshare.org/ (.org) was a nonprofit carsharing service in the Buffalo, NY area. Found discontinued in 2017.

    C

    • www.calgarycarshare.ca Calgary Carshare (.ca) was a carsharing service in Calgary. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • Car4Use (car4use.com) was a carsharings service that served Belgrade, Serbia. Found discontinued in July 2018.
    • carreviewsuk.co.uk was a car review site.
    • Carrot.mx was a Mexican carsharing service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • carsharehfx.ca/ CarShare HFX was a carsharing service in Halifax. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • https://www.carvenientclub.com/ was a carsharing service for Reading area. Found discontinued in Summer of 2018
    • cd-preis.de was German price comparison service for CDs
    • cheapfindergames.com was a British price comparison service for games. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • cheapperfumeexpert.com by Fast Lane Traffic Online was a price comparison service for fragrances. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • Ciao.com was a price comparison service that was available in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian and Swedish.
    • citizenn.com was a Portuguese carsharing service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • City CarShare (citycarshare.org/) was a nonprofit carsharing program in San Francisco Bay area from 2001 to 2016 when it was acquired by w:Getaround.
    • www.cityfan.com was an Italian restaurant reviews site. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.cooceo.de/ was a German price comparison service found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • Community CarShare communitycarshare.ca was a carsharing service in Ontario where they operate in Waterloo Region, Hamilton, w:Guelph, St. Catharines, w:London, Canada and w:Brampton. It merged / was acquired by Vrtucar.
    • compareprecos.com.br was a Brazilian price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • www.compareshopbooks.com/ was an American price comparison service for books. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • comparometer.in was an Indian price comparison service. Removed by anon on 2020-12.
    • ConsumerGadget.net ConsumerGadget.net] was an ethical information SMS+XHTML-service in the 00's in Finnish. Was discontinued and won money was donated to Kulutusjuhla Ry.
    • Consumerpedia was a GFDL corpus effort to provide consumers with useful information. Noticed to no longer exist in October 2018.
    • www.cooceo.de/ was a German price comparison service found defunct in Spring of 2017.
    • CorpKnowPedia was an early 00's wiki tracking the corporate landscape with the intention of building a database to track the behaviour of corporations.
    • www.costameno.it/ was an Italian price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017
    • Countrycheck.com CountryCheck used to be an anonymous proxy detection service. Website resolves, but does not serve much. Found discontinued in Spring of 2021
    • creditpeers.com was a Peer-to-Business (P2B) property lending platform in the UK. Host not found in Dec 2021
    • crit.org used to be annotation software to 'mark up' any site on the web
    • www.critics.gr/ was a Greek multi-category review site by nett O.E. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

    D

    • dealecke.de was a German price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • dealtime.com was an American deal finder service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • dooyoo.co.uk was a British price comparison service and reviews site covering audio/hifi, laptop, digital camera, appliances, fashion & beauty, mobile phone, tv, car and books. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • www.drivejoy.co.uk/ and www.drivejoy.es/ were peer-to-peer carsharing services for UK and Spain respectively. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

    E

    • einfachbilliger.com was a German price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • Ekopedia www.ekopedia.org/ (.org) - advice on living green in 7 languages MediaWiki, CC-A-SA. Contents are utilised in Appropedia.org (www.appropedia.org/Ekopedia)
    • Energy in Common www.energyincommon.org/ (.org) was a microloans for renewable energy solutions scheme. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.environmentaldirectory.net/ used to list over 13.000 organisations dealing with environmental issues in the US

    F

    • farebuster.co.uk was an UK travel price comparison service. Removed by anon in 2020-12
    • ferratump2p.cz was a Czech P2P lending service for consumers and SMEs. Domain found nonexistent in Dec 2021
    • fetchbook.info was a British price comparison service for new and used books. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • findloans.co.nz was a New Zealand loan comparison service. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • www.fleety.com.br/ was a carsharing service in Curitiba, São Paolo and Florianópolis, Brazil. Found discontinued in 2017.
    • fiiha.com was a Czech price comparison service
    • fitzroviafinance.com was a P2P property backed real estate financing service in the UK. Host not found in Dec 2021
    • Flexcar was a carsharing service in the USA
    • FindTheBest.com was an American price comparison service that was discontinued
    • The Flower Label Program flp.greendata.de was a German initiative started in 1999 that took part in creating the Fair Flowers and Fair Plants-label.
    • formaxcredit.co.uk was a P2B financing service in the UK, that planned to offer ISA. Found broken in Dec 2021
    • furniturejunction.co.uk was a British furniture finder and price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • www.futureforests.com/ - A project for making products carbon neutral by planting enough trees to absorb the amount of carbon emissions caused by the production of the product. Currently mostly about music records that want a fun label to print on the cd-sleeve. It'd be nice to see a burning rock power plant have this label.

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    • http://www.gamerankings.com/ - w:Game Rankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and discontinued in Dec 2019 and redirects to w:Metacritic.
    • givetake.pl/ was a Polish P2P lending site. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.goedkoopstehardware.com/ used to be a Dutch computer components price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • GreenScan - www.adbusters.org/campaigns/opensource/greenscan/ - was an early Adbusters project to create a hand-held barcode scanner with a simple output system. Scan a product: if you get a green light, it is ok to buy. Red is bad.
    • www.grouplend.ca/ used to be a Canadian P2P lending site. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

    H

    • happyduck.co.uk was an UK service to compare broadband, phone and TV deals. Removed by anon in 2020-12
    • hipmunk.com was an air ticket fare finder with graphical representation of timetables for the flights. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • www.homenow.fr/ used to be a French app for Android and iOS that keept track of public transport timetables and reminds you to get home before service ceases for the night. Found discontinued in 2017.

    I

    • www.incredita.co.il was an Israeli consumer loans oriented P2P lending site. Found discontinued in the spring of 2017.
    • www.infoshop.org/octo/matrix/index.php/Main_Page The Matrix: An anti-capitalist database] was a GFDL and MediaWiki running site
    • Interra - interraproject.org interraproject.org] was a scheme to make a card to enable "purchasing from locally owned and sustainable businesses" that "donates automatically to community organizations" and even "facilitates connections" like factions or Serendipity.

    J

    • junglee.com was an Indian price comparison service. Removed by anon in 2020-12.

    K

    • kontaktlinsen-berater.de was German price comparison service for contact lenses
    • www.kuluttajaluotot.com/ was a Finnish price comparison service for consumer loans
    • kwikcash.co.uk was an UK service to compare payday loans. Removed by anon in 2020-12.

    L

    • www.ladywiki.org/ was open public space for exchange & action against (not only sexual) discrimination, public domain
    • www.lainaa-netista.com/ was a Finnish price comparison service for loans
    • Listar www.listar.com/ (.com) was a search for products by country available in English and Spanish. Found discontinued in 2017.
    • Living Platform was proposed by 142.177.X.X to be useful to emulate to set Publish:policy as it has very similar problems notably with faction and challenges of remaining troll-friendly despite intense feelings about things
    • www.locomute.co.za/ was a South African carsharing service. Found discontinued in 2017.
    • Lsb - was an epic wiki named "eg" ( suppose thatäs latin for example gratularis or so ) by the lsb:Efficient Civics Guild use [[lsb:Article name]]
    • lynku.com was a British price comprison service for fashion, men, women, beauty, home and children. Ended before Summer 2018

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    • www.metaprices.com/ was an American price comparison service for books etc. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017
    • matramatri.com was an Indian price comparison service that helped customers to compare the prices of products in different categories like women fashion, men fashion, Kitchen appliances, mobiles, gadgets, computers, ultra-books, home décor or even ration etc. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • mobcarsharing.pt was a Portuguese carsharing services. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • mobilechecker.co.uk was an UK price comparison service for mobile phones. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • Modo Fac Central, www.modofaccentral.com/mfc/ was online social networking system lead by Kerry Santo for social entrepreneurs and all who want to Just Do It
    • www.moneygum.com/ was a British price comparison service for insurance, loans and credit cards. Found discontinued in Spring of 2017.
    • monies.co.nz was price comparison service for comparing payday loans and bad credit loans. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • multicity-carsharing.de was a carsharing service in Germany. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018
    • www.myphilanthropedia.org/ was a charity reviewing site where experts were invited to rate charities so you can easily choose which one to donate to. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • phoneslimited.co.uk was an UK price comparison service for mobile phones. Removed by anon in 2020-12.

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    • netshoppers.com/ was an American price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • NexTag www.nextag.it/ and NexTag.es were price comparison service domains by Nextag, Inc. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • nootka.co.uk was a British price comparison service. Ended before Summer of 2018.

    O

    • Okanagan Car Share Co-op. (ogocarshare.ca) was a carsharing cooperative in Kelowna BC that was acquired by Vrtucar in March 2018. Vrtucar the carsharing service in Kelowna.
    • OurAnswer was a method for the people to respond to business leaders and politicians and it ran MediaWiki and worked under GFDL)
    • www.onecompare.com/ used to be a British price comparison service for mobile phones. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • One Village Foundation, www.onevillage.biz responding to the AIDS challenge in Africa by organizing unity centers as catalysts for global villages

    P

    • Path2go (tlab.path.berkeley.edu:8080/dpiVII/) was a traveler router for the San Fransisco area by http://www.networkedtraveler.org/. Found discontinued in July 2018.
    • www.pcworld.com/shopping/ was an American price comparison service for computers etc. by w:PC World. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • planetarycitizen.open.ac.uk/ used to be a network for the Planetary Citizen
    "This project comes out of a vision for a peaceful, sustainable future for the Earth that has been developing in many places. That vision was very evident in the non-governmental side of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in August/September 2002, in many of the events that were ignored by the mass media."
    • www.planetprices.co.uk/ was an UK price comparison service
    • preissearch.de was a German price comparison service for new and also used products. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • preistester.de was a German price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • preistrend.de was a German price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • www.pricealert.com.au/ was a car price comparison service in Australia found defunct in 2017.
    • priceaussie.com was an Australian price comparison service. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • pricebomb.co.uk/ was a British price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • pricedeals.com was an UAE price comparison website. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • pricelookers.com was a Nigerian price comparison website. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • PricePanda www.pricepanda.com.ar/ and www.pricepanda.com.co/ were price comparison services in Argentina and Colombia. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • PriceSCAN.com was a site that used to keep indices on certain consumer electronics over time. Discontinued in 2011.
    • www.pricetracker.co.uk/ was a DVDs, music,games, gadgets, software and books price comparison service by Primosys. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • pricewatch.co.uk was a British price comparison service. Ended before Summer of 2018.
    • comparer.prixcarburant.com était une liste des comparateurs de prix des carburants en France. On l'a trouvé disparu 2017.
    • w:ProCompare www.procompare.com (.com) was a review aggregator. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • professionalsfinance.com.au was an Australian price comparison service to compare home loans and business loans. Removed by anon in 2020-12.

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    • Qarin.com was a price comparison service intended for MENA
    • web.quicar.de/ Quicar.de was share a Volkswagen carsharing in Germany. Found discontinued in 2017.
    • www.qype.it was an italian eating & drinking, nightlife, shopping, arts & entertainment, services, Health&Beauty review aggregator. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

    R

    • Repairpal.com was a site for finding auto repairs in the USA. Found discontinued in Autumn 2019.
    • Rateitall.com was a reviews site on movies, tv, internet, games, electronics, automotive, travel, food, drinks, health, pets and more. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • Recyclopedia www.recyclopedia.info (.info) was a closely aligned wiki that used GetWiki, an ancient fork of Mediawiki. Recyclopedia is down for an unknown period. Although much of the content seems to be reappearing at the Embodiment wiki.
    • Rentecarlo.com was a peer-to-peer carsharing service for UK that operated for 18 months. Found discontinued in Summer of 2018
    • rockbottom.de was a German price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.

    S

    • www.smartshopping.co.uk/ was a British price comparison service by 1&1 Internet AG. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • schlaubi.de was a DSL price comparison service by Decision Technologies Ltd. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • www.shopyoo.de/ was a German price comparison service found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • shopwiki.com.au is purporting to be price comparison service in many countries, but return no results. Removed by anon in 2020-12
    • w:Simplifydigital was an UK price comparison service for digital services, broadband, tv, phone etc. The company was founded in 2007 and in 2016 Simplifydigital was acquired by w:Dixons Carphone.
    • www.socialforge.net/tiki-index.php was "a free service for everyone wishes to share knowledge and to collaborate to build projects related to:
    • slipperycat.com - attempt to nail down ontology for game business - shows what a simple industry looks like from low level code up to production. - a stub at the moment
    • www.subvertise.org/ - A fun collection of subverted advertising i.e. Defaced ads and image manipulations in the spirit of adbusters. Plenty of fun for all Brand/Logo/Graphics/ViolentRevolutionOfTheProletariat type of people
    • Superprix.com was a French price comparison service by w:Pronto.com
    • www.stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/ The Surpriv blog was for discussions of RFID-related surveillance and privacy issue
    • stromsparung.com/ was a German electricity price comparison service. Found defunct in the Spring of 2017.
    • Surf2Ship.com was a Sri Lanka price comparison service for all products online. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • swellinvesting.com offered w:impact investing services in USD. Domain found nonexistent in Dec 2021
    • w:Switchwise switchwise.com.au was an Australian utilities price comparison service. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • SwoopThat swoopthat.com was an American price comparison service for textbooks. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.

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    • www.tangou.cn/ used to be a Chinese price comparison service found discontinued in maintenance sweep.
    • w:TheFind.com was shop aggregator by TheFind, Inc discontinued in 2015
    • www.thetransitioner.org TheTransitioner.org] was an attempt to build "a Collective Intelligence economy" Copyright unknown
    • w:ThinkHotels.com was a British online hotel booking portal, registered with British Hospitality Association. Removed in 2020-12 by anon.
    • Tolmol.com was an Indian price comparison service
    • tooldirect.co.uk was a UK DIY and renovation price comparison service. Removed by anon in 2020-21.
    • TransFair was an international Fairtrade organization. In 2018 it was noticed that the TransFair brand is discontinued and the national organizations have switched to the Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO)
    • transparo.de was a German auto insurance price comparison service. Discontinued after getting purchased by Verivox.de
    • w:Tripcombi (originally Tripdelta) was a price comparison service for flight prices. Bought by Fareportal and merged to https://www.cheapoair.com/
    • www.trustbuddy.se/ was a Swedish P2P lending site. Found discontinued in the Spring of 2017.
    • www.tuotetieto.com was an effective price finder for retail chain's webshop prices in Finland
    • Tuotewiki.fi Finnish language product-oriented ( instead of holistic orientation like Consumerium )

    U

    • uchoose.ie was an Irish utilities, insurance, travel and finance products price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • ucomparehealthcare.com - was healthcare reviews site with a supposed scope of US and it found discontinued in Summer 2019
    • Uhaul Car Share (uhaulcarshare.com) was a carsharing service in USA where it operated in over 30 areas. Found discontinued in July 2018.
    • UnitedDiversity - Also referred to as "udoo." (United Diversity Open Organisation). A very interesting London based group dedicated to building commons and sharing resources: to improve quality of life for all while simultaneously reducing ecological footprint. ud.lir.be/tiki-index.php]

    V

    • veganwiki.org/ - was a wiki for our vegan friends, currently only in German, but English, French and Spanish wikis are being prepared for setup
    • www.vikingcars.is/ was a peer-to-peer carsharing service for Iceland. Found discontinued in 2017.
    • visioncompare.co.uk was an UK contact lens price comparison services. Removed by anon in 2020-12.
    • visioncompare.in - contact lenses was an Indian contact lens price comparison services. Removed by anon in 2020-12.

    W

    • www.weinlupe.de/ was a German wine finder and price comparison service found defunct in Spring 2017.
    • Wikicompany(.com) - a community built, free content, worldwide, business directory.
    • wir-lieben-preise.de was German price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018
    • wowowo.de was a German price comparison service. Found discontinued in the Summer of 2018.
    • www.wtfcon.org - WTF's The Future was a wiki that organised moots for techno-hippies and anarcho-geeks. A truly cool use of emergent democracy. wtfcon.org is down - content moved to UnitedDiversity, see above Many of the people who were involved in this seem to be somehow involved in ironfire.org/takebacktheweb Take Back The Web].

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    Z

    • Zibika.com was an Indian insurance, bike insurance, travel insurance, health insurance, life insurance and home insurance price comparion service