I almost forgot! Early December last year, Price Protectr went live for the very first time and started saving people money. A year ago yesterday, I posted a
story on Digg.
Reception was mixed; We made some people happy:
Nice! This is an excellent piece of my online shopping arsenal, especially as after christmas discounts are right around the corner.
Man, I must have price protected about 6 items over the Holidays. I think I saved over $700 in total. Having a service like this just makes it all the easier.
And others were skeptical:
God, I am sick of these flickr imitating names and domains.
smells like spam, and i didn't even read the article yet
Lack of the final vowel is the first requirement on web2.0! Do not underestimate the power of getting your audience to fully understand your hipness and lack of concern for English as a language!
Now, a year later, I'd like to think we've proven the critics wrong.
We've protected over 15.5 million dollars in purchases and saved our users a whopping 650 thousand dollars. All for free!
And, we've been steadily adding retailers (I think we originally launched with 6) and new features like accounts, the ability to view your protection history, retailer ratings and reviews, this blog, deals and coupons, a complete site redesign, and too many small improvements to mention.
We've been featured in countless blogs, newspapers, and magazines: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, PC Magazine, PC World, CBS evening news, ABS evening news, Technorati, the Consumerist, MSN Money, and many, many more.
To commemorate this occasion, I've added a bookmarking widget to all the blog posts so that we may more esaily dugg up, dugg down, shared, lauded, and critiqued for years to come.
It's been a great year and there are lots of new exciting things in store for the coming year. Stay tuned, and thanks for using Price Protectr.
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posted by Dave @ 10:42 PM
