Price Protectr
A new article is posted each day on Blunt Money, where you get plain talk about money and personal finance. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I recently came across a forum link to a site called Price Protectr. It looks promising, offering a service that monitors pricedrops on items that you’ve bought from select online stores. The stores listed are: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Backcountry.com, BestBuy.com, BestBuy.ca, Bike Nashbar, Circuit City, Cooking.com, Costco, Future Shop, Jenson USA, Office Max, Sears, and Target.
What do all of those stores have in common? They offer a 30-day price protection guarantee, meaning that if the price goes down during those 30 days, you get a refund of the difference. It’s been more than 30 days since I’ve bought anything at Amazon.com or Target.com (the only sites on the list that I shop at), so I can’t test it out myself, but it looks like a great idea. If you’ve tried it, let me know how it worked out.
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:32 am
Just wanted you to know I know someone who saved some money using this. I forwarded them your link, but they haven’t posted yet, I guess. I’m going to register, but I’m not planning to buy anything right away.