Financial Announcements

Bargain Jill

Starting a few years ago, founder Dustin DeVries and his wife began collecting coupons and deals from national retailers as a result of the recession. They shared this information with their friends and family, and this venture continued to grow until Dustin decided to make collecting online coupons and deals a full-time venture. Thus was born Red Tag Media.

Since then, the component sites have grown in size and success; PC Magazine named Bargain Jack a Top 10 Deal Site, for example.

Bargain Jill is one of these component sites, and is a one-of-a-kind website that compiles deals and coupons from across the web on brand-name items tailored specifically towards women–items like women’s apparel and accessories, home and garden items, beauty products, and children’s items. Through Bargain Jill and its newsletter and social media activities, we’ve been able to find and broadcast deals at more than 50% to 75% off their street prices. Unlike other websites, Bargain Jill doesn’t only include one-day deals and doesn’t require membership. Instead, Bargain Jill is a one-stop-shop for women searching for the best deals on the Internet for items they love and trust. We also have a deals and coupons RSS feed–as well as a daily newsletter, updated Twitter feed, etc.

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New Website: MyWeeklyAds

At MyWeeklyAds.com, visitors enter their zip-code to instantly view current weekly ads from a multitude of stores in their area. There is so much content already on the site that literally any zip-code entered will show results (there are over 43,000 zip-codes in the U.S.  Entering a zip-code from a large metropolitan area such
as Seattle (98101), Dallas (75201) or Atlanta (30301) will really turn up a lot of results.

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Five minute retirement plan

Our new web site, the Five Minute Retirement Plan (FMRP), uses statistical modeling to build a portfolio of low cost exchange traded funds (ETFs) to meet your retirement goals.

FMRP has constructed a set of twenty portfolios spanning the risk-return horizon using eleven ETFs. The best set of these portfolios is selected based on your time horizon and risk tolerance. Then, a retirement plan is created that indicates how many shares of each ETF are needed, allowing for easy implementation through any discount broker at minimal cost. The composition of the portfolio will change over time, becoming more conservative as you approach retirement.

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American Express Platinum Card

As flight delays, endless airport lines and mounting incidental travel fees become the norm.  American Express is adding three new international travel benefits to its Platinum Card to make travel abroad more enjoyable and less stressful. Some of the news started surfacing on Friday, but today is the official launch with a live registration site.

At a time when the competition is fierce among credit cards to be “top of wallet”, card companies are targeting the travel space to deliver value to customers. The new benefits reinforce the Platinum Card as a smart choice for travelers looking to get more value for their money and time, at home and abroad. Amex Platinum U.S. consumer and small business Card members can enroll and learn more about the following new benefits here:

• Priority Pass Select – Card members will now have access to more than 600 international airport lounges in more than 100 countries and more than 300 cities worldwide.
• $100 Global Entry Credit – Statement credit of $100 to offset the application fee for Global Entry, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) membership program that allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travelers upon arrival in the United States.
• Elimination of Foreign Currency Transaction Fees – Effective immediately, Card members will not be charged the 2.7% foreign currency transaction fees on international purchases when they use their American Express Platinum Card.

This trio is in addition to the new travel benefits American Express Platinum launched at the end of last year, including an annual $200 airline fee credit, which can apply to baggage fees, flight change fees, in-flight food and airport lounge day passes.

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New website: Stocks In The Attic

Stocks in the Attic is focused on selecting the best investment related news on the internet for our readers.

We do this by aggregating articles from hundreds of websites and manually filtering them down to the most actionable and quality items. Typically 10-20 articles a day are selected. We also try to add value by tagging the posts that are selected allowing users to further improve their experience by only selecting the types of articles they are interested in.

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TimingTruth

Finally, a site that makes managing your retirement simple and profitable for a very fair price.

While TimingTruth is selling its market timing subscriptions it goes out of its way to teach and show you everything you need to know to manage your 401k or IRA. They try to educate you without the usual financial jargon that’s so confusing. The site’s focus is retirement investments but they do have several growth portfolios that perform very well considering the low risk levels. The primary suggestion is to use
Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) because of low management costs and trading flexibility. Great site if you want to manage your retirement portfolio but don’t want to waste time sifting through the marketing hype.

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Bargain Book Mole

The Faster, Easier and Guaranteed Way to Find the Lowest Prices For Used & New Prices Online—Or the Book is On Us!

Although there are many websites that search for the lowest book prices online, BargainBookMole is the only one that:

• Guarantees they will find the user the lowest online price or they will pay for their book! (The price guarantee covers up to a $25 book.*)
• The only company to offer “instant” price-checking tools: free browser add-ons for Firefox and Internet Explorer that are up to 20 times faster and twice as easy to use compared to the most popular book search websites.

Here’s how the add-on works: it’s invisible–unless it encounters a book ISBN (an unique identifier for each book edition) which triggers a wee pricing tab to discreetly appear. Click on the tab, and the pricing mole quickly digs through all the major book-selling websites to find the best used and new prices in seconds. It doesn’t matter what website you’re on, the Bargain Book Mole can find the best prices for you on the fly, exactly when you want to check. Of course, price isn’t everything. The Bargain Book Mole also lets readers review the details of a book’s condition and see shipping cost and total prices without having to visit any other site. Move away from a book page and the little book-mole tab disappears back underground. If this sounds complicated, it’s not. Seeing it in action is the best way to see how clever this little add-on is.

Before the Bargain Book Mole was developed, comparing book prices online required finding a new website, typing in (or copying and pasting) the title or ISBN information and hitting the search button. For example, consider a search for a Laura Ingalls Wilder classic on Bookfinder.com, the most popular book-price comparison website. Searching for Little House on the Prairie takes 22 seconds and brings up 46 choices that have Little House on the Prairie in the title. After choosing a title, Bookfinder takes another 23 seconds to get pricing results, for a total search time of around 45 seconds. Add in 10-25 seconds for switching websites, typing in and choosing a title, and a single book price search takes more than a minute. Compared with driving to a bunch of bookstores, this is still incredibly fast, but the same search with a Bargain Book Mole add-on takes only 3 seconds and without the distractions of switching to a new website or double-checking if the right edition was chosen. (The same Little House search on the www.BargainBookMole.org website also takes a few seconds, making it up to 20 times faster than BookFinder or AddAll.com, the two most popular book price.)

In short, the Bargain Book Mole is the fastest, most convenient, and only guaranteed way to find the best-priced books online. It’s easy to understand why before its official release date and with no publicity, the Bargain Book Mole is already receiving the most downloads of any Firefox book-buying add-on.

*For full rules and restrictions designed to prevent fraud or misunderstandings about the guarantee, see here.

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Priceblink

PriceBlink, an instant price comparison browser extension, has just added wish list functionality! Now, PriceBlink users can shop on line for the gadgets they covet, know when they are getting the best price, or add them to their wish list for another day. Plus you can, set up a price alert and wait for the price to fall into your price range.

PriceBlink really pulls together all elements of efficient, optimized online shopping which means peace of mind, less time wasted hopping around from site to site, and maybe even some good deal bragging rights! Currently, the wish list works on our Firefox and Chrome versions.

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Auric Blog

From the author:

I recently wrote a post about how I go out to eat and pay practically nothing, and I thought you all might like it. You can find it here:

Restaurant Deals: How I Go Out to Eat and Pay Practically Nothing

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LikeList launches weekly deals

LikeList just launched weekly Deals, a program that features great bargains from local merchants. We’re starting with the SF Bay Area and will be expanding nationwide soon.

LikeList has always been a great way to find trustworthy local business recommendations. Now it’s a great place for coupons, offers and deals from local merchants that want your business.

Take a look at our site and see for yourself. LikeList is a resource that busy people can use to make smarter decisions about everyday purchases.

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