{"id":50074,"date":"2025-04-25T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/50074\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:41:08","slug":"bill-gates-daughter-phoebe-launched-a-shopping-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/50074\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates\u2019 daughter Phoebe launched a shopping app"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once you install the app or extension, a \u201cShould I Buy This?\u201d button will appear when you land on a product page. Click the button, and Phia will scour the web to compare prices to new and used listings of the same and similar items before telling you whether the price is high, low, or typical.<\/p>\n

I tried it out for myself by heading to the product page for Louis Vuitton\u2019s $1,950 Graceful PM<\/a> bag. Phia told me it\u2019s \u201cworth the price,\u201d and showed me secondhand options from Fashionphile and eBay, starting at $1,453. It also provided a link to Phia\u2019s website<\/a>, where I could compare it to similar \u2013 but cheaper \u2013 second hand bags from across the internet.<\/p>\n

Phia says it uses AI to analyze \u201ccurrent market trends\u201d and compare them against a database of more than 250 million used goods from sites like The RealReal, Vestiaire Collective, ThredUp, StockX, eBay, and Poshmark. <\/p>\n

There are several other apps out there, like Capital One Shopping, Rakuten, and Honey (which has since been accused of ripping off<\/a> customers and the creators who promote it), that try to save you money by comparing prices and automatically applying coupon codes. But it seems Phia is attempting to make itself stand out by focusing on fashion and putting an emphasis on thrifting as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once you install the app or extension, a \u201cShould I Buy This?\u201d button will appear when you land…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[2062,547,12,14840,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-50074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apps","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-online-shopping","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}