Published March 31st, 2008
in Deal Site Reviews.
Wanting to pick a site to review, I referred to the latest revision of Yan’s Popular Price Comparison Sites series and found that ugenie.com went up in traffic by 59%. But on going to the website, I could not find anything about price comparison, but about IRead (totally not about shopping), their Facebook application. Googling found this link, which talks about a lawsuit and other issues. Summarizing quickly, UGenie (allegedly) happily ripped (scrapped) off another website gig’s of data to build a course textbook search engine. Though scrapping is done very often, Ugenie has scrapped from a single source very valuable data worth a lot of human hours (details about courses and their linked textbooks). And now UGenie is gone. However inner links like this are working.
Now again wanting to pick a site to review, I picked the youngest baby among the latest revision of Yan’s Popular Price Comparison Sites series, thefind.com. thefind.com is actually the second youngest in the list (next to ugenie, which should no more be in the list) and the second best performer last month (30%, again next to ugenie.com’s 59%).
First look at the home page (this is the first time I have ever been to the site): looks different compared to most popular price comparison sites. A quick read on the home page suggests that “search” is their strength. So, I am going to try the same set of searches I tried on PriceGrabber and Cnet Shopper.
Continue reading ‘Price Comparison Site – TheFind.com Review’
Published March 31st, 2008
in Interesting / Other.
I don’t have this kind of posts very often but once in a while I do try to show how grateful I am to the people and companies who support me and my blog.
Financial Web
FinancialWeb is an independent financial portal full of personal finance related educational resources. The kind of information you will find there varies from mortgage to taxes and from insurance to credit cards. FinancialWeb has been sponsoring ProBargainHunter since 2006. Give them a visit at FinWeb.com and if you happen to drop them a note say “hi†from Yan at ProBargainHunter! :-)
CouponWinner
Aydin, the President and CEO of CouponWinnder has also been my long time sponsor. His website is a great repository of shopping coupons, many of them are exclusive to CouponWinner visitors. Aydin has recently launched a UK site, http://www.codes.co.uk which my UK readers may want to check out.
If you want to be featured at ProBargainHunter, please check out the page for sponsors. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a note.
Published March 29th, 2008
in Shopping Coupons.
Update 04/08: this offer has expired. More deals for kids can be found at Buxr.com
Alright, this is hot enough to break my pledge of not posting any more individual deals on this blog. This is a pretty rare promotion from BabiesRUs, get $5 off any purchase of $25 or more, on-line or in the store.
For online use, apply code 921088 at checkout. For off-line, go to this page at BabysRUs website, print the page, and take to your local store.
Excludes diapers, baby formula, and gift cards. Other restrictions apply (read the fine print). This promotion ends on April 1, 2008
Published March 28th, 2008
in Shopping Bargains.
This week hasn’t not been as productive as the last one, also many good deals that we posted this week have already expired, yet there are a few that made it to the weekend. Here are some of those that caught my eye:
There were many more interesting deals this week and I just couldn’t post them all here. I encourage you to visit Buxr.com or subscribe to Buxr.com RSS feed for more great offers every day. See you next week!
Published March 27th, 2008
in Money Saving Tips.
Update 05/06: Some readers suggested in the comments that the categories displayed online may be not what the Chase Credit Card department is actually using when calculating rewards. In other words, don’t believe your eyes when you see “Other” as the category. You might still be getting that bonus reward! ;-)
I have been keeping an eye on the activity on my Chase Freedom Plus card and I noticed that many popular merchants get to the “Other” category implying these transaction will not result to the bonus cash back (2% on top of the normal 1%).
I understand this is up to the merchants to properly categorize the transactions when reporting them to Chase and so the bank can’t really do much about it (and this is probably why the customer support is ignoring my emails to them). That said however, I decided to build a list of popular merchants that systematically get to this “Other” category so I could possibly get advantage of other credit cards when shopping at these places.
Popular merchants reported as “Other” by Chase Freedom Plus
| Albertson |
Michaels |
| Bed Bath & Beyond |
Old Navy |
| Burlington Coat Factory |
Party City |
| Butera |
Presbyterian Hospital |
| Caputo & Sons Market |
Sears |
| Dick’s Clothing & Sports |
Sunflower Farmer’s Market |
| Dillards |
Target |
| Dominicks |
The Home Depot |
| Harvest Fresh |
TJMaxx |
| JC Penney |
Toys R Us |
| Jewel Osco |
Trader Joe’s |
| Kohl’s |
Walgreens |
| Linens N Things |
Wal-mart |
| Meijer |
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I will try to keep this list up to date as I collect more activity on my card. If you want to add to it - just comment to the blog post and I will include your names as well. Just make sure that the merchants you report are truly categorized as “Other” on your statement.
