Consumers can find hardware (e.g. notebooks, smartphones, cables, printers), software, electronics,[3] household appliances, sports goods, and drugstore wares.

[1][18] It offers filtering for technical features, such as number and version of USB-ports or version of the operating system, specification sheets, test reports,[19] product ratings,[19] price historiy, warehouse stock, shipping costs and rating of the traders.

[9][14] Geizhals was founded in 1997 by Marinos J. Yannikos, who was a scientist at TU Wien,[2] under the name Hardware-Preisvergleich[25][26] and focussed on traders around Vienna.

In 2003 Geizhals wanted to acquire geizhals.de, which was owned by another site,[30] gaining an unknown seven-figure price.

,[29][23] Tarife.at,[29] a website for comparing tariffs of 35[29] different phone-companies for Austrian mobile-phone-number, conveying 50000[29][22][23] customers per month to companies.

[36][37] From 2002[38] to 2017 Geizhals offered a comparison for the yearly costs of internet provides (including modem/router,...).

According to Format the branch confront the founder of Geizhals with uninsulated hate,[9] because of the decline of prices.

[9] However, according to the founder Marinos Yannikos, his only interest was to find for himself a way to save money and time, and did not wanted to withhold it to others.

[48] In autumn 2008, therefore Geizhals established bepixelung.org for Users sharing their own product-photos, however in August 2017 the website is closed and is now used by someone else.