What's Shakin'?

Many who have bought through Amazon have used Amazon's Post-Order Price Guarantee. The guarantee allowed the user to get their money back on the difference of any Amazon price drop within 30 days of buying an item from Amazon.

Users bought with the confidence of getting the lowest Amazon price at the time of purchase and up to 30 days later, a confidence even more important in an economy where more and more people need ways to save money.

It has come to our attention that Amazon has ended their price protection guarantee. It appears that any items ordered as of today will no longer be eligible for price drop rebates at Amazon.

Price Protectr has always been a fan of Amazon (we're die-hard Amazon customers ourselves). Many thousands of Price Protectr user enjoy shopping there, and we lament the loss of this customer benefit.

In light of this development, Price Protectr has decided to accelerate the launch of a new service that will enable faithful Amazon customers to still enjoy the benefits of Amazon's great service while retaining the peace of mind that came from price protection.

Within 60 days, Price Protectr plans to offer price protection to Price Protectr users who shop at Amazon. Details will be announced, but here's the long and short of it: If you're a Price Protectr user who buys from Amazon through one of Price Protectr's services, you'll automatically receive a refund of some or all of the difference between the Amazon purchase price and the reduced Amazon price for a period of time after your purchase.Thanks, and long live Price Protection!

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We just set up a Facebook fan page! If you use Facebook, head on over and sign up as a Price Protectr fan. We'll be doing some cool promotions and offers in the future (tee shirts, anyone?) and as a Facebook fan, you'll have first dibs :-)

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Today's two fer adds a couple more popularly requested retailers without price protection policies: Geeks.com and Zappos.

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Today's a pretty momentous Two-Fer. For almost two years now, we've been focusing almost exclusively on price protection. A couple months back we introduced deal alerts, price watching, and price targeting -- a few more powerful tools for your online shopping arsenal. We've been getting a lot of requests lately to support retailers without price protection policies so, without further ado, todays Two-Fer adds two popular retailers without price protection policies; Newegg and Ritz Camera.

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We're in the process of sending out the second ever Price Protectr newsletter! (A couple of you might have gotten two copies, sorry about that :-/)

It's hard to believe the first newsletter was sent out almost a year ago! I don't know about you, but I get hundreds of emails every day, so we try to keep Price Protectr emails to a minimum (except for price drop alerts!). I'd like to send out the newsletters a little more frequently than once a year if people find them useful. We try to keep them short and interesting, and we welcome any feedback you might have. If you're a new user or didn't receive the newsletter, you can read it online.

We have also updated our privacy policy to reflect some of the new services we're providing such as deal alerts, price targeting, and price watching. Not much has changed policy-wise -- we still value the privacy of each and every user and will never sell your personal information to third parties -- but we changed the organization a bit so it's worth a look over if you're interested.

Lots of cool new stuff in the works, so come back soon. And, as always, thanks for using Price Protectr!

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You may not be competing in the Olympics this time around, but you can still purchase all the swag! Today's two-fer adds the NBC Universal Store and the Official US Olympic Shop. So go ahead, dress like the athletes. We'll help you keep some of that gold in your wallet.

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Calling all Price Protectr users living in the San Francisco Bay area! A nationally syndicated television show is looking to do a piece on us, and we need some enthusiastic users to go in front of the cameras and tell the everyone about your Price Protectr experience. The show will be broadcast in over 65 million housholds, so tell your mom and your friends to tune in. Oh, and shoot us an email with your contact information if you're interested in helping out!

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Today's two-fer adds the popular jewelry store Ice.com and auto-store AutoAnything which has an incredible 360 day price protection policy!

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We see a lot of big price drops around here, and usually they're on big ticket items like HDTVs. Well today we found one on a collection of books at Amazon marked down from $1,862.00 to $15.00. That's a pretty sweet price drop!

Unfortunately, the item has sold out in the amount of time it's taken me to write this blog post, but I did happen to grab a screenshot with 2 items left:

So keep protecting your purchases. You never know how much you'll save!

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