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I Crave Freebies for this Holiday Season

Shenissel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:00:19 +0000

Since the holidays are coming up soon we need to start preparing ourselves by making sure we get the most for our money. Start searching for great deals by going to different comparison search engines like Become.com and start comparing great deals with different merchants. Another way to search for great deals it’s by going to other great sites that have phenomenal resources like ICraveFreebies.com where you can find freebies on different products.

In this tough economy we all want to save money whenever possible. Freebies it’s a great site where you can find 100% real freebies, free stuff and samples. They update their deals in a regular basis so that users don’t waste their time looking at expired offers. At I Crave Freebies you can find free magazines, movies and music, posters, CD, DVD’s and more! They also feature a link to coupons.com where you can print and start using your coupons from different merchants! Also, under their “other free stuff sites” they list different useful products from different sites where you can get incredible items for free. Yes, I did said “free”! Last but not least, at Freebies you can also get updated with useful resources that can help you make extra cash. They list the best CASH and REWARDS resources out there for you!

This is a great site to consider when going over your holiday wish list. I already bookmarked ICraveFreebies.com, now it’s your turn to bookmark this great site to start getting your freebies!

-Shenny

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Deals and Discounts at PLRG for this Holiday Season

Shenissel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:17:52 +0000

As you all know the holiday season it’s right around the corner. During this beautiful and charming season all women want to look stunning to welcome the holidays. If you are one of them but don’t have a fortune to shop around so that you look stunning, don’t worry many stores are already offering and getting their sales and discounts out to the public! Also, most online shopping websites are already preparing their holiday deals and discounts. But the question is, have you started searching around for these deals? If not, this is the time to do so. Start searching with those online shopping websites so that you get the best deals and discounts. For example, Become.com has already stared with its new shopping deals and discounts from many of its loyal merchants.

I recently came across Poor Little Rich Girls.com where they feature a page listing all of their deals and discounts from different local businesses in Chicago like spas, bars, and boutiques. When you click through their list of links they will direct you to a page where they present you with further information on their deals and discounts. Poor Little Rich Girls it’s also a place for savvy ladies who can get updated on everything from the hottest budget-friendly events in Chicago to how to balance her checkbook. They can even interact with other poor little rich girls and swap tips and tricks for living with a high style on a low budget. Poor Little Rich Girls its a place where fashion sense meets common sense.

If you want to look great and go out with your friends to celebrate these upcoming holiday seasons, take a look at Poor Little Rich Girls.com and start taking advantage of their great deals and discounts! I already booked marked PLRG!

-Shenny

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Save with CouponTrunk.com

Shenissel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:17:43 +0000

Big savings! Who does not like big savings? Most of us prefer getting the best deals when it comes to shopping. I think is worth our precious time to save on big purchases by using coupons for discounts. There are two different ways you can search for major discounts; 1) going to a comparison search engine like Become.com and 2) by going to an online coupon codes site like CouponTrunk.com to get discount offers from your favorite and most trusted merchants.

Coupon Trunk is a fabulous site where you can find the best coupons, discounts, and daily deals. Like mentioned before Coupon Trunk provides you with coupon codes and discounted prices from the merchants that you know and trust. They list all stores with coupons in an alphabetical order so that users can easily search for their favorite stores! Also, with their expiring coupons you can see all of the coupons that are soon to expire so that you don’t miss out the great savings.

Stop by Coupon Trunk and browse around their different categories that you can choose from like apparel & clothing, electronics, health and beauty, gifts & flowers, pet supplies, and many many more! All of the categories offer you with different merchant’s coupons that you can use.

If I were you I would bookmark this site since it’s a great resource when searching for the best coupons and deals of the day! Don’t miss out!

-Shenny

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Create a warm ambience with porcelain bathroom accessories

runa — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:16:44 +0000

Did you know that Mariah Carey got inspiration for the song Hero in her bathroom? Many people retreat to their bathrooms to get some peace, quiet and clarity of thought. Well, I am one amongst them. I belong to that class of people who believe in utilizing every waking moment. I spend the time in the bathroom either in philosophical pursuits like trying to put into perspective what I want from life, or in planning how to manage my time.

Since the bathroom is the place where I relax and put my thinking cap on, it is imperative that it should have a serene ambiance. For the very same reason, my bathroom is painted in a light pink shade. It has a couple of potted plants and dim lights. It is also the home to some of the knick-knacks that I love, for example the Olive Leaves Statue and an Uttermost Round Mirror.

However, my favorite in the bathroom is a recent possession- Thomas Kinkade porcelain bath accessories. I saw the limited edition collection on Become.com and fell in love with it instantly. It is a pristine porcelain bathroom accessory collection that has an old world charm to it. The handcrafted triple-fired Heirloom Porcelain features the garden artwork of Thomas Kinkade. The scenery, depicted in beautiful hues of pink, green and white, soothes one’s senses. Each piece of the collection has an edging of hand-applied 22K gold. The collection comprises of a lotion dispenser, a toothbrush holder, a tissue box, a drinking cup and a soap dish.

When one’s bathroom is so welcoming, how can I resist spending some quality time in it!

Guest Blogger: Runa

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Alfred Dunner Blouses For Summer Events

Desiree — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:41:24 +0000

When the weather is warm and you have a graduation, family picnic, work event, and a birthday party to go to, what can you wear that is comfortable, flowing and fits your body type? Alfred Dunner blouses are your answer. These blouses are casual enough to wear for outdoor events and dressy enough to wear for indoor events.

Outdoor events like family picnics and birthday parties deserve some vibrant colors and flowing material. These playful Alfred Dunner prints allow the breeze through while dressing up your black, white, khaki or denim shorts, capris or skirts.

For those indoor graduations and business events, you might want to stay with some solid or minimal print Alfred Dunner blouses with a solid colored skirt, slacks or even jeans.

For a wide selection of Alfred Dunner blouses to choose from, Become.com features many styles at great low prices.

- Desiree

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Ecko Shoes That Look Like a Skate Shoe

Desiree — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:14:59 +0000

I am a huge fan of skate shoes and have owned many brands such as; Vans, Osiris, Globe, DVS, Adio and DC. Recently, I saw a friend were a pair of Ecko shoes that have the same style as a skate shoe and sports some awesome and colorful designs. Aside from the exterior print, the reasons why I wear skate shoes are:

to make my feet look less long when the laces start closer to the toe
the fat tongue keeps my foot in so all I have to do is slip them on and off without tying
the soles are usually colored and have flatter sole tread to grip the floor and skateboard
the upper fabric is usually made of a fabric that is easy to wipe clean to look newer, longer

Since I’m going to Viet Nam next week, I figured I’d look for a pair of cheap Ecko shoes for myself. Here are three pairs that I am going to try and find while I’m visiting for 2 weeks.

If you aren’t going to be visiting Viet Nam any time soon, I’d suggest looking for different styles and the best prices for Ecko shoes on a comparison shopping website like Become.com.

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Become.com is presenting at SMX West Today!

Will — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:18:37 +0000

Become, Inc is participating in a panel today at SMX West at the Hyatt in Santa Clara! Jon Glick, our Vice President of Product Search and Comparison Shopping, will be discussing search marketing tactics used to help retailers and Ecommerce merchants optimize their search results from 3:00 to 4:15 PM.

For full details, please check out our Industry Events page, part of the Become.com Resource Center.

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Check out Become.com on Facebook!

Brent — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:48:49 +0000

It’s time for all you Facebook® addicts to celebrate; Become.com has officially created it’s own company page on Facebook®! Login to your personal account and become of a fan of Become.com. Find other fans of our site on Facebook® and discuss all your shopping stories, opinions and advice in our discussion board and interactive wall postings. Now, instead of stalking all your old friends and acquaintances, you can find people with similar shopping interests and get the inside scoop on life here at Become. Check out some pictures from Become.com’s 4th birthday party and let us know what you think about our site!
Happy Shopping.

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Abandon all hope ye who enter the internets. A guestblog from Aram.

kris — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:17:49 +0000

The following post is courtesy of Aram Cretan, former researcher here at become.com. Aram has sinced moved on from his role here to pursue his dreams of piracy, and general swashbuckling. He has changed his name to Captain Danford Stevenson and is the terror of the Sacramento River (like all business, you have to start on the bottom in piracy). He brings us a post he wrote before leaving us that is still quite useful information for those who use Become, or pretty much anything out there in the vast world of the interwebs. Enjoy.
Seriously.
We got an email a little while ago from a woman named Kathy, who had been trying to order a handbag from a site that she found through us. It turned out the site didn’t ship to where she lived (UK) and when she tried to cancel her order, they clammed up and stopped returning her emails–although they were still charging her credit card.

Now, before I go any further, I should point out that this is not one of our merchants that you’ll see on the “Shop” side of Become.com. This was some random site that came up through our “Research” index, which, while we try to emphasize quality buying guides, reviews, blogs, etc., contains over four billion pages–some of them are merchants, and some of them are inevitably bad. I mean, have you SEEN the Internet? That place is HUGE!

Kathy naturally wanted some help, but there wasn’t a lot we could do. If it were one of our merchants, then sure, there’s a business relationship there that we could leverage on her behalf (not that our merchants would ever pull these kinds of shenanigans), but this was a site our crawler came across while indexing the web–there’s just not a lot of recourse. Ultimately, I advised her to ask her credit card company to reverse the charges, since they’re often pretty good about that. But as I looked at the site further, it occurred to me that this site just reeks of shady if you know what to look for–we see a bunch of these, and you get a pretty good Spidey sense after a while. I’m not trying to take anything away from poor Kathy, btw–these people make their livings off of looking just credible enough to part bright people from their disposable income. They’re pros.

So while I wasn’t really able to help Kathy that much (I emailed her about this post–Kathy, if you’ve got anything to say, please do leave a comment) perhaps Kathy’s experience can help you. Let me show you exactly why I probably wouldn’t spend my lazily-earned money at bagzandwatchez.com.

The name. OK, so a ridiculously-spelled name isn’t itself an indicator of untrustworthiness, but notice how the name in the URL doesn’t match the name on the page. If they were actually a store trying to build a brand and curry true favor with their customers, they wouldn’t want you to end up going to bagsandwatches.com (which is currently domain-parked), which you might do if you were to type their address out from your memory of their site’s logo. That lack of concern for repeat business is the same reason you shouldn’t buy speakers out of the back of a van.

The site copy. Read the following paragraph:

Indulge your passion for luxury with our louis vuitton replica handbags, cerise monogram Louis Vuitton replica bags and imitations of the original cerise monogram Louis Vuitton handbags with a trendy motif inspired by the fruit of the cherry blossom, Japanese art wedded to Louis Vuitton perfection.

You know how if you repeat a word enough in a short span of time, it starts to sounds ridiculous? (Go ahead, say “cow” 50 times; I’ll wait.) When you get to the end of the front page of this site, the words “Louis Vuitton” have become a meaningless collection of syllables–and for good reason. This page wasn’t really written for you to read. It was written to look vaguely acceptable to human eyes while looking extremely juicy to search engine algorithms. We in the biz (I’ve always wanted to say that) call it “keyword stuffing,” and while it’s one of the cruder techniques that webmasters use to achieve a good ranking in search engines, it’s still widely practiced. Black hat SEOs have gotten slightly more sophisticated than they were a few years ago–they can’t just repeat the word “sex” 500 times in white text at the bottom of the page–but words used in context like the above example are trickier for machines to pick up on. General rule: if a page reads like it was written by someone who missed class the day the rest of us learned how to use pronouns, it was probably written by a scumbag, for a machine.

No contact info. This is a biggie. They have a contact us page, which is nice, I suppose–except, as Kathy found, it’s pretty useless. It’s just a form to fill out. There’s no address or phone number, or anything that you could actually use to hunt them down and administer a beating. Even if you were to do a WHOIS on their domain, you’d see this:

Created: 2006-08-01
Expires: 2007-08-01
Last Modified: 2006-08-01 13:47:32

Registrant Contact:
Katz Global Domain Name Registration
Privacy Protected Domain Katz Global Domain Name Trust (domaintrust@katzglobal.com)
32 Maxwell Road #03-07 c/o bagzandwatchez.com
Singapore, SC, sg 069115
P: +65.67228356 F: +65.67258021

A couple causes for concern here:

A one-year registration on the domain which began two months ago. Again: not in itself damning, but not an indicator that they’re in this for the long haul. Spammers and scammers go through domain names as quickly as Paris Hilton goes through BFFs–as soon as one site gets discovered and booted from all the search engines (as this one has, at least from Become, as of…now) they move on to the next.
They’ve used an anonymous domain registrant service. Domain registrars are required to keep public records of who registered which domain, so services have sprung up that will register a domain for you in their name, thereby shielding you from the public eye. This is great if you’re a dissident in China who fears reprisal for your pro-democracy blog; it’s not so great if you’re trying to find someone who’s charging your credit card for merchandise they never delivered. There are certainly legitimate uses for these services, but I don’t think this is one of them.

And finally, there’s the matter of the item itself. A site selling “replica” versions of high-end designer goods should raise a flag, since selling such items is kind of a legal gray area. They do clearly identify them as “replicas,” so that’s good, but it’s a somewhat unsavory part of the Internet in the first place. If it’s counterfeit bags you’re looking for, I’d recommend the guy who usually sets up around Market & Turk, around the corner from the Crazy Horse. No teeth means no dental plan overhead, and he passes the savings on to you!

So anyway, I’ve been kind of long-winded here, but I hope I’ve been helpful. There are a number of other good resources on the web, too. For starters, try:

About.com’s Tips to Protect Yourself While Shopping Online
Consumer Reports WebWatch
The FTC’s e-commerce page.

Aram

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