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I feel like there's a lack of good price comparison websites in US and Canada. I'm used to e.g. PriceSpy which compares thousands of stores. Just as an example showing 42 different stores selling this particular SSD https://pricespy.co.uk/computers-accessories/storage-media/h...

Whenever I search for something like that for US/Canada I end up on a site that indexes Amazon/ebay with affiliate links.

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I second this. PriceSpy is so incredibly useful. I've recently moved from New Zealand to Australia and PriceSpy doesn't offer their service here. It is now so much more difficult to figure out where to get the best price. I took it for granted and now have to make do with the mediocre https://www.priceme.com.au/.

Same story in the US. Back in the day there were multiple price engines that were super effective at finding the best price. I remember PriceGrabber and even Google Shopping being really useful.

I think the affiliate links destroyed them all, removing the incentive for them to offer the best price and instead only serve up the most profitable (to them) links.

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