What's Shakin'?

Wow! Lowlo has not been lounging around the pool this summer. This morning we discovered that we passed the $23 million mark! That's one busy owl.

Don't forget to tell your friends about our newest ways of helping you save when you shop, including deal alerts, price watching, and price targeting!

Lowlo's got your back, so enjoy your summer road trips, festivals, concerts, and shopping! We'll keep watching prices for you.

Labels: deals, prices, savings, statistics

Labels: deals, prices, savings, statistics

Today we tipped the 20 million dollar mark for protected items. Thanks to all our users out there. Keep coming back and we'll keep working hard to save you some money. (And don't forget to tell your friends about us, they'll thank you for it!)

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As of today, we've notified users to over 1 million dollars in potential savings! That's pretty exciting and we did it in just a little over a year. Hopefully 2 million comes even faster!

Thanks to everyone out there who's helped make us a success. We have a lot of exciting new features on the way, so stay tuned!

Remember to tell your friends about us, and thanks for using Price Protectr.

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We hit a huge milestone this weekend, protecting over $15 million in purchases. Thanks to all our users, and don't forget to tell your friends if we've helped you save some money!

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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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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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Wow, it's been an exciting week around here. About a week ago we passed the $7 million mark in protected purchases. Well, today we passed the $8 million mark (by more than $150K). Keep telling your friends about us. Let's hit $10 million by the end of the year!

We're happy to announce another new feature tonight, deals search. We don't actually publish all the price drops we find, but now you can search all our deals and price drops. Let's say you're in the market for a new Garmin GPS -- head on over to the deals page, do a search, and viola!

You might also notice there are some new icons for deals. One is for coupons and special offers from supported retailers, and the other is for price drops. And, just in case you can't figure out which is which, there's a new FAQ on it as well.

Hope everyone likes the new search. Feel free to leave comments or send us an email with feedback.

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As of this weekend, Price Protectr users have saved over $400,000 and protected more than $7 million in transactions! Those numbers are only going to get bigger over the holidays. Don't forget Price Protectr when shopping this year!

We added some great new deals from Altrec and Best Buy. We also moved a few links around in the masthead to make it easier to get to the deals page.

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That's right, as of today we've protected over 6 million dollars in purchases. That's a lot of stuff!

For all you first-time users, welcome to Price Protectr. And for all you PP regulars, thanks for coming back!

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Today's a big two-fer: The Apple Store and Music123. Not only are we adding two very popular requests, but as of tonight we now support 50 retailers!

And, don't forget that we're giving away a $400 shopping spree to the winner of the name the owl contest for any retailer we support. Thanks to Apple's recent price drop that means you just might be able to score a new iPhone.

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It's been an exciting day at Price Protectr. Did you notice? We crossed a couple bug numbers today -- over $5 million in protected purchases and over $300,000 in savings. Wow!

Thanks to all our loyal users out there and keep telling your friends about us. We're always happy to help more consumers get a little money back. Keep the comments and questions coming, we love hearing from you!

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As of this week, we've protected over $4 million dollars in purchases. That's a lot of iPods, HDTVs, and books! How much of that is yours?

Thanks to everyone who helped us hit this milestone, and be sure to check out our press release.

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See that big number on the page? The really big one... the quarter million dollar one. That's right, we've saved people a lot of money over the last six months. Congratulations to everyone who's saved a little (or a lot of) cash on their purchases and thanks for helping Price Protectr grow into the number one price protection site on the web!

We're not resting on our laurels just yet. There are a lot of exciting things coming soon. And keep emailing us with your comments, suggestions, and tips! We're always happy to hear from users.

Don't forget to tell your friends about Price Protectr. Everyone likes saving money :-)

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As of this afternoon, Price Protectr users have saved $100,690.77! What exactly can you get with $100,690.77? 110,784 pounds of bananas, 302 80GB iPods, 40,276 bicycle tubes, or 1 Mercedes CL550 Coupe. So go ahead Price Protectr users, pool your money and get yourselves something nice over the holiday weekend.

And, here's another great email from a happy Price Protectr user. Congratz, Jake!

Saved me $85

Hello!!!

I just wanted extend a big "thank you" for helping me save serious money!!! I bought a LCD TV at Best Buy. Signed up at priceprotecr.com, then 3 weeks later the price dropped. Thanks to your website, I got $85 back!!!! Thank you very much!!!

Jake
Grand Forks, North Dakota

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This afternoon the total savings counter topped $10,000. That's pretty good! At this rate, Price Protectr will have saved people $167,000 by the end of the year. Think it'll happen?

Here are a few more interesting stats -- people have protected approximately 1.6 items each with an average savings of $34.27. The largest savings so far has been $450.00.

Aside from collecting some stats, I also added support for a couple new sites: Bike Nashbar and Cooking.com and changed the format of the links to supported stores on the main page a bit. Cyclists and cooks, eat (and spend) your hearts out.

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Since being linked on Digg, Price Protectr has been getting a lot of attention. Over the weekend visitors submitted about 700 new items and saved over $2,000. Not bad for two days.

I've received a lot of requests via email and have a number improvements planned for the site, so I figured this blog would be the best way to everyone up to date on what's happening around here.

Since the original post, I've added support for amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk. Not having made a purchase from those sites myself, I made a best guess as to where to go to request a refund. If anyone goes through the process and finds that the instructions are incorrect, please let me know.

It's also worth mentioning that if anyone has problems with or comments about the site, you're welcome to email me about it. It's more productive than making snide comments on forums... although maybe not as satisfying. Really, there's no reason you can't do both. Chances are if you contact me about it, it'll get fixed faster.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by. Take off your shoes and stay a while.

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