What's Shakin'?

Today we launched item profiles, which allows you to see historic price information for all the products we link to. On the deals page and in your My Stuff account, you'll see a "more details" link for every item. Clicking on that will bring you to an item profile page like this.

As you can see, we display price trends, highs & lows, and all the price drops we've seen for that item. Just another weapon for your shopping arsenal.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know!

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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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I got an email today from Jason, a Price Protectr user, telling me about an email template he uses to request refunds. It's short and polite and he's been kind enough to share it for anyone else who might be at a loss of words when requesting a price adjustment:

Hello,

On [DATE] I purchased [ITEM NAME] at a price of $[PURCHASE PRICE]. Today, I saw that it is priced at $[CURRENT PRICE], a difference of $[DIFFERENCE].

I am requesting that this amount is credited back to my account per your Post-Order Price Guarantee.

Thank you!

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Happy holidays to you and yours from everyone here at Price Protectr. I hope everyone got just what they wanted this year.

Have a healthy and happy '08.

Price drop of the day for December 20th: $25.00 off American Idol Talent Challenge, now just $24.99 from Toys 'R' Us.

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Price drop of the day for December 19th: $59.96 off Cuisinart Advantage Non-Stick 10 Piece Cookware Set, Red, now just $39.99 from Amazon.

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Price drop of the day for December 18th: $68.01 off Dana Crisscross D'Orsay Pump, now just $49.99 from Ann Taylor.

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Two new Depots join the list of Price Protectr supported retailers: Home Depot and Office Depot Canada!

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Price drop of the day for December 17th: $75.00 off Kingston Technology - 1GB PC5300 SoDIMM Notebook Memory, now just $29.99 from Best Buy.

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Price drop of the day for December 13th: $35.00 off iLive Digital AM/FM Clock Radio for iPod, now just $34.99 from Sears.

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We had a couple big links to us and a little unexpected downtime this morning. Everything's back up and apologies to anyone who had trouble accessing the site this morning.

In case you're wondering where all the traffic came from, we got covered by the New York Times in A Universe of Gadget Advice and MSN Money in 6 Sites Every Shopper Should Know.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Price drop of the day for December 12th: $20.00 off Craftsman 1/2 in. Impact Wrench, now just $19.99 from Sears.

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Price drop of the day for December 11th: $40.96 off Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Series (1990), now just $38.99 at Amazon.

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Today we added a couple more retailers for our non-US users: Amazon Japan and Tiger Direct Canada.

And, we hit the $10 million protected mark this weekend!

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Price drop of the day for December 10th: $16.39 off LeapFrog Leapster TV Learning System, now just $15.99 from Amazon.

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We don't usually post deals of the day on weekends, but this deal is so good I couldn't resist. I even picked one up myself!

Price drop of the day: $145.00 off SanDisk 4GB Standard SDHC Card, now just $34.99 from Circuit City.

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It's another call out for a Price Protectr TV interview! If you (or someone you know) live near Atlanta and would be interested in helping out, shoot us an email.

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Price drop of the day for December 6th: $38.39 off Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Siege of the Flying Dutchman, now just $38.40 at Amazon.com.

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One of the great things about the internet is how one person can discover a site or a photo or a video, and all of the sudden it's a pop culture phenomenon. Here at Price Protectr, we haven't spent a cent on marketing, yet the word continues to spread. We owe a lot of thanks to all the bloggers out there who find out about the site and use their internet soap box to help spread the word.

How did you hear about Price Protectr? Let us know in the comments!

Here are a couple of the great posts this week:

Track Price Drops with Price Protectr from Get Rich Slowly
Money Saving Monday Tip#1 (Again) from Gather Little By Little
Never get stung by a price drop again: The promise of Priceprotectr.com from WalletPop
Let this Web site do the legwork for you from MSN Money Blog

If I missed your blog post, promote yourself and post a link!

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Price drop of the day for December 5th: $66.03 off Factory-Reconditioned Breville XXJE95XL Two Speed Juice Fountain Plus from Amazon.

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As of today, we've alerted users to over half a million dollars in potential savings! That's awesome. Congratulations to everyone who's collected a price adjustment.

We've been getting a lot of new users protecting their holiday purchases. Keep the comments and suggestions coming! We're working hard to make Price Protectr the best service we can!

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Price drop of the day for December 4th: $40.00 off Sony 20X Internal DVD Drive from Staples.

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Tonight's Two-Fer adds a couple user favorites: Macy's and Walmart.

We've been getting a lot of positive feedback about the deals search. Well, tonight it got even better -- when you search deals we'll show you all the matching products' prices as well as recent price drops. Check out this search for iPod Nano!

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Price Drop of the Day for December 3rd: $100.00 off HP HD3000 300GB Personal Media External Drive from Circuit City.

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We were in the news again this weekend! We were mentioned in the Wall Street Journal's Set Up Web Price Alerts and the New York Post's Buying Protection; Websites Have Your (Green)Back.

Special thanks to Price Protectr users Bryan Lemster and Elizabeth Lipscomb for their great interviews, as well as everyone else who volunteered to help out!

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