shopping

Ugenie Beta Shopping Site

Ugenie Beta Shopping Site

Still in Beta, the “true price” shopping search engine Ugenie has raised $5 million bucks in venture capital to take it to the next level. Type in a shopping list and Ugenie calculates the cheapest combination of sellers.

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Go Greyhound. Get $20 off $20+ tickets. Coupon code: URBAN. Travel long distances in discomfort. Make friends with paroled convicts. The joys of thrift.

Walmart Predicts Flat Sales In November

Walmart Predicts Flat Sales In November

Walmart dampened our holiday spirit today with a forecast of flat sales throughout November at stores open longer than one year. What’s the problem?

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2 Free weeks of Blockbuster. You may have to try a few of these codes. Yay, Blockbuster, limited selection and cinema classics edited for the whole family.

Avoid the Biggest Web Shopping Annoyances

Avoid the Biggest Web Shopping Annoyances

PCWorld today posted an article on circumnavigating hassles while shopping online.

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Wine.Woot: JanKris Paso Robles Trio for $39.99. 3 different blends, lots of flavor, notes and highlights… like some kind of advanced future wine sent back in time.

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Cluzzle for $7.99, normally $18.99. It’s a party game where you sculpt something out of clay and the other players play 20 questions to figure out what it is. For bonus fun, invite all your abstract expressionist friends over for a round.

Please Stop Your Customer Service. It’s Frightening.

Please Stop Your Customer Service. It’s Frightening.

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768 resolution, handles HD, and curves so sweet you wanna hump ’em.

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Woot: Casio Pathfinder Tough Solar Triple Sensor Watch $99.99+ $5 shipping. Set the timer and see how long it takes you to learn how to use the rest of the watch.

Save Time. Waste Money.

Do you ever wonder how much more you’re paying for convenience food items? Individually wrapped prewashed potatoes? Microwave popcorn?

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Woot: VC 61 inch D-ILA High Definition TV for $1,589.99. Hook it up to a running video camera and point the camera at the screen for a hi-rez trip to an alternate dimension. Really, just a visual feedback loop, but times are tough, and the kids might be distracted enough by the swirling blues to forget they’re not going to Disneyland.

HOWTO: Grocery Shop on the Cheap

Oftentimes, people will grocery shop hungry, forget the list wadded in their pocket, and grab whatever looks yummy. Once home, they realize they bought 16 rotisserie chickens, a box of Chex Mix and a 6 pack of Rolling Rock.

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Tanga’s got the Game Boy Advance Micro Silver w/ 4 Faceplates for $49.99. Yeah, faceplates, there’s a highly successful, and interchangeable, business model

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• Today’s Toofertoosday at Woot! is 2 Sandisk 512MB Memory Sticks for $17.99. Only problem? They’re pretty much useless unless you have a Sony device.

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• We could have sworn that Woot! just slapped the Archos AV700 40GB Portable Media Player up on their site last week, yet here it is, prettily blushing an image of a Godzilla-sized baseball pitcher riding a tiger on its 7″ screen. My guess? They didn’t sell out of it last week. At $289.99, it’s a good solution for mpegs on the go.

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• Murrgghlxpylstxxkkk. For the bleary-eyed beast at dawn, today’s Woot! is the Melitta Momentum 10-Cup High-Speed Brewer for $39.99. This morning, I feel like ordering ten of these. Blargh.

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• Today’s Woot!: the Southwestern Bell Dual Handset. Weighs in at 5.8Ghz, which is more than my computer! Includes a Digital Answering Machine, sort of an automated iPod for pre-recorded sales calls. Only $34.99.