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Product/Service Name

PriceTrace

Brief Description

Comparing prices is necessary if you want to get the best deals on your purchases, but it’s a time-consuming process. PriceTrace is an online shopping tool that allows you to look for better prices, without hunting all over. You can all set alerts for price drops and check a price history chart for each product.

Target audience: Shoppers who are interested in getting all their price information in one spot.

Stores included: Tracks more than forty major retailers, including Amazon and Walmart.

Product/Service Name

BargainJack

Brief Description

BargainJack.com is a gadget deals site focused on computers, electronics, and other guy-friendly items.

Target audience: Gadget-loving guys, age 18-55.

The Inspiration

We fill a void in the deal site genre by presenting only the best deals.  In our world, more is not more. We are picky so that our readers don’t have to weed through mountains of ‘5% off’ coupons or ‘free shipping with $500 purchase’offers. Simplicity is key and we take the same approach with the deal-finding tools on the site. We aimed

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Online is an infinite everything outlet, selling everything from your everyday business needs to groceries. But while options like Amazon offer support and guarantees, you may be tempted by the eBay underground. Some of those deals look too good to be true, and here we look at the predictable results of that statement:

Product/Service Name

CheapTweet

Brief Description

CheapTweet finds all the deals, coupons, bargains, sales, and discounts people are talking about on Twitter and collects them at CheapTweet.com, where visitors can search for, vote on, and save these deals. You don’t have to be a Twitter user to take advantage of the deals on CheapTweet — the site is free to use and open to anyone.

Product/Service Name

Modista

Brief Description

Modista is a visual search for shoes and fashion accessories (for men, women, and kids) that applies computer vision technology (patent-pending) to enable product discovery. Rather than navigating text-based menus and scrolling through lists and lists of results like most other shopping sites, Modista allows you to simply use your visual intuition.

The holidays are upon us and some of us STILL have a list of gifts to buy that seems a mile long. When you add in the fact that everyone’s trying to save a little money on gifts this year, the whole process may seem a little overwhelming. There are a few ways you can manage your gift-buying, though, and you might just be able to speed it up.