Printer Friendly
The Free Library
19,607,059 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

ClickTheButton.com Provides Online Shoppers With Independent Price Comparisons While They Browse Toys for Sale at Amazon.com, Brainplay.com and eToys.


NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 1999--

ClickTheButton.com today launched a free service allowing online shoppers to obtain independent price comparisons while they browse toys for sale at Amazon.com, Brainplay.com and eToys. People obtain the price comparisons by installing the company's proprietary icon (free for download from http://www.clickthebutton.com) and then clicking the icon while browsing toys for sale from these online stores. ClickTheButton.com provides unbiased product pricing information in response to these `clicks' and has no affiliation with these online merchants.

"Our goal is to make independent price comparisons available on every major consumer product sold on the Web," said Cheyenne Ehrlich, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of ClickTheButton.com. "The addition of toys is another step towards our achievement of that goal."

Today's announcement marks the company's launch of its price comparison service for use while browsing toys. It is an expansion of the Company's established services available for books, movies and music. People who already use the service do not need to reconfigure their hardware or software to obtain price comparisons while browsing these newly supported products and stores.

To access the company's price comparison services, users must ClickTheButton. TheButton is a software icon that can be downloaded at no charge from the company's web site: http://www.clickthebutton.com. TheButton installs next to the clock on a Windows computer (or in the Apple menu on the Macintosh). People can ClickTheButton to get a price comparison while browsing millions of books and now hundreds of thousands of music and movie titles.

People can ClickTheButton to request an independent price comparison while browsing at any of these online stores:

Books: Amazon.com (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
: AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ), Barnesandnoble.com (NASDAQ: BNBN),

Borders.com (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
: BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ), Booksamillion.com (NASDAQ: BAMM BAMM British Association of Medical Managers
BAMM Bay Area Model Mugging (now Impact Bay Area)
BAMM Beta and Advection Model - Medium
BAMM Bay Area Math Meet (San Francisco, CA) 
),

Buy.com

Movies: Reel.com (NASDAQ: REEL), BigStar.com, Buy.com, Borders.com,

Amazon.com, eToys (NASDAQ: ETYS)

Music: CDNOW (NASDAQ: CDNW), Borders.com, Buy.com, Amazon.com, eToys

Toys: Amazon.com, Brainplay.com, eToys

Although ClickTheButton already covers many toys, movies, CDs and cassettes, the Company plans to add more of these products to its price comparison service in the coming weeks. The Company encourages its software users to contact support@clickthebutton.com if they encounter a product or website not presently supported by its software (usually indicated by an error message) and would like to have that product or online shopping site added.

About ClickTheButton.com, Inc.

ClickTheButton.com, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 with offices in Princeton, New Jersey
See also: Princeton Township, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey is located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Princeton University has been sited in the town since 1756.
 and New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, New York. The Company provides free software to people who want to quickly compare prices when they are shopping at leading online stores. ClickTheButton.com provides unbiased product pricing information and has no affiliation with any of the online merchants in its online store.

ClickTheButton's free software is currently available for use with Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. , Netscape 3.x and 4.x browsers on Windows 95, 98 and NT operating systems. To download TheButton to your desktop go to http://www.ClickTheButton.com/setup.exe. This process takes approximately 90 seconds on a 28.8 dial-up connection. Versions for Macintosh can be requested at http://www.ClickTheButton.com/.

The company plans to add additional product categories to its service in the coming weeks.
COPYRIGHT 1999 Business Wire
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 1999, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Publication:Business Wire
Date:Jul 13, 1999
Words:538
Previous Article:Ericsson Selects Natural MicroSystems for First Integrated Wireless Network for Carriers; Natural MicroSystems' Products Deliver Reliability to...
Next Article:C&G Electronic Engineering, Presort Services Standardize on RVSI's Visionscape Platform.
Topics:



Related Articles
IS ETOYS WINDING DOWN? POOR SALES HURTING CASH-STRAPPED COMPANY.
OVEREXTENDED ETOYS FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY.
NET SHOPPING MOSTLY BIG HIT.

Terms of use | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles