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TheFind’s New Take on Shopping Search

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Shopping search engine TheFind has relaunched with a bunch of new features. It claims to cover 350 million products, and I believe it–I got tons of results when I searched for everything from cameras to camera accessories to specific books to baby products to condiments. TheFind isn’t like a comparative pricing engine such as PriceGrabber, which [...]

Wize’s New Shopping Search: Wiser, Still Room For Improvement

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Wize, a shopping research site that attempts to be a one-stop resource for finding out what folks think about products of all sorts, officially unveiled a major redesign on Tuesday. It’s a useful upgrade to a powerful reference tool, although I encountered a number of quirks as I explored the wealth of information it contains. Wize [...]

Orbitz and Buy.com’s Sales Tactics: Cluttered and Confusing

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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Cnet’s Greg Sandoval has a good story on use of “loyalty” programs by Orbitz and Buy.com-which are basically attempts to get you to sign up for services that charge you monthly fees as you check out during the buying process. A meaningful number of shoppers apparently sign up for these services by accident, and the [...]

The Deal of a Lifetime on a Dell Netbook!

Saturday, January 31, 2009

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I like to save money on a new PC as much as the next guy, but I’m not crazy at the strategy taken by many direct sellers these days–the one that involves there always being multiple sales and “instant rebates” and special offers and upgrade deals designed to get you to Buy Now! I’d much [...]

Microsoft’s Black Friday Black Eye

Monday, December 1, 2008

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If Microsoft wants to become a serious Web competitor to Google it should stop tripping over its own feet. On Black Friday, it was offering more apologies than bargains after embarrassing technical glitches incapacitated the company’s Live Search Cashback, scuttling its initiative to gain a larger share of the search market by giving searchers discounts [...]

Black Friday Turns Ugly. Genuinely Ugly.

Friday, November 28, 2008

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Okay, I had some fun with my distaste for Black Friday earlier today, but this is serious stuff. A Wal-Mart employee was knocked to the floor by maniacal shoppers and killed today at a store on Long Island, in a riot that sent four other people (including a pregnant woman) to the hospital. (The crowd [...]

30 Reasons I Choose to Ignore Black Friday

Friday, November 28, 2008

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Today, in case you hadn’t noticed, is Black Friday–America’s legendary shopping-day-of-all-shopping-days. The sales are unprecedented, the shopping hours are extended, and hey, it might even help nurse our battered economy back to health. But me, I may get through the day without buying anything more costly than a Diet Coke. I love saving money on [...]

The Best News I’ve Heard in Months

Monday, November 3, 2008

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Ever felt like you should keep a blowtorch on hand to blast your way into the tamper-resistant packaging that a lot of tech products come in these days? Help is at hand–and it doesn’t involve blowtorches. Instead, it takes the far more sensible step of making packaging easy to open. Amazon has launched an initiative called [...]

Is There Any Way to Save Circuit City? I’m Not Optimistic–But I Hope So

Monday, November 3, 2008

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Engadget is reporting a rumor that that the venerable Circuit City chain is planning to shut down 155 of its stores, which would amount to about a quarter of its locations. If true, this is sad news for the folks employed at those outlets, not to mention the ones who like to shop at them. [...]