Hi everyone,
It often happens to me that the actual web shops of sellers are surprisingly difficult to find. When searching on Google, I usually see lots of ads and marketplace listings first. Eventually I end up on Amazon or another large platform.
Only afterwards do I try to find out who the manufacturer or merchant actually is, go back to Google again, and finally locate their own webshop.
To simplify that process, I configured Jeyfu, a custom GPT inside ChatGPT that works as a shopping assistant and is tuned to prefer direct shopping from sellers instead of large marketplaces.
The assistant helps with find the right product for you and then tries to find the original shop or manufacturer whenever possible, so you can buy directly from them.
You can try it here:
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-69b53f922c0881919b77028cfe20c60a-jeyfu-direct-shopping-assistant
Since it is text-based and conversational, it may also work better with VoiceOver and other screen readers, than searching on big product platforms.
If you are like me and prefer buying directly from sellers — which avoids marketplace commissions and often benefits both sellers and customers — then Jeyfu might be interesting to try.
Feedback is very welcome.
Greets,
Stefan
Comments
This is redundant
Hi, I am a ChatGPT plus subscriber and very seasoned in using the ChatGPT app on my iPhone or Windows PC to use “deep research“ mode for any shopping weather I provide ChatGPT all my criteria and requirements and ask it to find the least expensive currently available options or whether I provide ChatGPT the exact brand/model of whatever I want to buy and find me the least expensive currently available options. The ChatGPT interface both on Windows and iOS is fully accessible and very text based even though I’m completely blind and use screen readers on both platforms. When ChatGPT finds me my options it always offers me clickable links that are fully accessible that lead me on the intermediate ChatGPT browser page within the ChatGPT app and then I almost always click on the “open iN browser“ button at the very bottom which then opens the direct product page that ChatGPT found and which I selected, in my Web browser, again be it on my Windows PC or iOS. So why would I bother with your URL/app method? further I did experiment using the hyperlink you provided for your custom GPT and both the page where I enter what I’m looking for in the edit field as well as the subsequent results page have lots of usability and accessibility issues with very poor implementation of heading styles etc. basically making it really hard to navigate with screen reader (I did this experiment on iOS), while the ChatGPT method is far more streamline and accessible and usable. what am I missing here? oh and by the way that deep research shopping mode of ChatGPT is absolutely stellar and directly gives me the product page of whichever major medium small or independent or eBay retailer currently has what I’m looking for, in stock. finally, your custom GPT method provided me it’s results in that for mention low usability page but then the size of this blanket I was looking for kept on showing out of stock at least on two of the results that I checked from your method. however the ChatGPT deep research method specifically only provides me results where what I’m looking for in the exact requirement such as the size of the color etc. is actually currently available in stock and ready to buy and doesn’t waste my time giving me links two pages where my specific combination of requirements is out of stock. sorry to be a downer but again while I appreciate your motivation to make things easier, your method seems to be quite lacking and it’s performance, Accessibility/usability and also seems redundant.
ChatGPT Custom GPT
Dear @Prateek Dujari, Jeyfu is a custom GPT, it is just a configuration within ChatGPT, so the user interface is ChatGPT. It should be an identical experience for you. The customization is just a fine tuning for preferring direct business with manufacturers or sellers over big shopping platforms like Amazon. I personally prefer this, that's why I have made that.
Feedback or validation?
With all due politeness, to the original poster, are you looking for feedback from real life which I posted or are you looking for self validation? Search forms are not the place to come to for validation because that’s a deeper issue that a psychologist is trained for. You say it should be this and it should be the same and so on in your response to my post, which essentially makes me my experience feel quite dismissed so, I mean, why are you even asking for feedback in your original post if you just want to tell me as a user/tester that my experience is invalid and it should be the same using my ChatGPT plus experience which I described in my post while in reality it is not so.
Feedback
Dear @Prateek Dujari! Your feedback is very much appreciated. My answer was just meant to try to clarify a possible misunderstanding, either on my side or on your side, or both. You are saying that you like ChatGPT, but the shopping assistant works within ChatGPT, you can even find it in the Custom GPTs Store without ever going to the website. So how could the usability be worse than ChatGPT if it is ChatGPT? Please clarify.
Furthermore I just wanted to explain that it is not redundant, as it is a finetuned custom GPT. The finetuning has been done to make ChatGPT focus on direct seller webshops while being a helpful shopping assistant.
Deep Research Shopping Mode versus Jeyfu
Now I have done some research: I was not aware of the Deep Research Shopping mode until now, because it has never been active in my own use, and still does not activate, although I am also a ChatGPT Plus user. This may depend on roll out, or country or whatever. For Jeyfu, as a custom GPT, it is also not available. So @Prateek Dujari, you have been right, I am sorry, the misunderstanding was on my side! In this case I recommend using the Deep Research Shopping mode, if you prefer that for your use case. Jeyfu may still be useful, if somebody - like me - generally wants to avoid big shopping platforms and find the web shops of manufacturers and merchants, bypassing Amazon, eBay, Etsy etc.
Clickable links
As Jeyfu often forgot to make the links and deep links clickable, I have now added model instructions to provide those. Seems to perform better now.