Egghead.com Added to PriceGrabber.com.LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1999-- PriceGrabber.com, the only consumer-targeted Internet site that sources items sold below cost, Wednesday announced the addition of Egghead.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 :EGGS) to the list of retailers included on the site's service. "We are delighted to have Egghead.com join the ranks of retailers which recognize the value of being part of PriceGrabber.com," said founder Tamim Mourad. "Egghead.com broadens the selections available on our service and gives consumers even more choices for finding unheard-of deals on computer products." PriceGrabber.com, which can be found at http://www.pricegrabber.com, searches the Web automatically for computer hardware and software products that are listed for sale at prices below cost. Viewers searching the PriceGrabber.com database are One Click Away(SM) from buying these items directly from the online retailers at almost unbelievable prices. A quick look at the PriceGrabber.com site showed the Creative Lab's Sound Blaster A very popular family of sound cards from Creative Labs. In the days of DOS, Sound Blaster was the de facto interface for gaming sounds. Monaural Sound Blaster cards were introduced in 1989, and stereo cards followed in 1992 (Sound Blaster Pro). Live! Value selling for $51.95 at Buy.com, which wholesales for $82.00. Online retailers such as eCOST.com, PC Mall (subsidiaries of Creative Computers, (NASDAQ:MALL)), Buy Now Computers and others, regularly mark items for sale at discounted prices in order to attract new customers. "These retailers, and a growing list of others in queue Pronounced "Q." A temporary holding place for data. See queuing, message queue and print queue. (programming) queue - A first-in first-out data structure used to sequence objects. Objects are added to the tail of the queue ("enqueued") and taken off the head ("dequeued"). , have recognized the value of being associated with the value leader, PriceGrabber.com," Mourad said. PriceGrabber.com differs from common shopping services on the Internet in a number of ways. Most notably, PriceGrabber.com analyzes the data it compiles, finding and aggregating pricing discrepancies and loss leaders, among other very good deals. PriceGrabber.com then validates the actual wholesale prices for the items it lists, so viewers can know for certain that the item they select is a bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being good deal. Common shopping engines simply list the products that match a user's search string, without validating val·i·date tr.v. val·i·dat·ed, val·i·dat·ing, val·i·dates 1. To declare or make legally valid. 2. To mark with an indication of official sanction. 3. whether an item is a good deal or not. "We continue to expand the retailer base of PriceGrabber.com, as well as the product categories and services we offer," Mourad said. "Look for significant growth in the future as we announce our co-branding agreements and additional services." PriceGrabber.com, 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. in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , can be reached at http://www.pricegrabber.com. References: PriceGrabber.com http://www.pricegrabber.com PC Mall http://www.pcmall.com eCOST.com http://www.ecost.com Egghead.com http://www.egghead.com |
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