Bargain Feeder Blog

An significant update to Bargain Feeder has been long over due. But, finally it’s here–and hopefully to everyone’s delight.

One of the big changes is that you can now sign up as a Bargain Feeder member. It’s completely free, at no cost to you. By creating a free account, you’ll be able to customize certain parts of Bargain Feeder to make it more useful to you. Signing up is a breeze. All you need to enter is your username, password, and e-mail address–and you’ll be on your way.

The following member features have been added to Bargain Feeder:

• Add bargains that you really like to your own wish list (in case you’re at work and can’t buy stuff until you’re home)
• Create and manage your own custom RSS feeds for your bargain searches and share them with your friends if you wish
• See bargains that you recently have viewed (within the past two weeks)
• Keep track of recent searches you’ve made on Bargain Feeder and easily create custom RSS feeds from them

Improvements that benefit both members and non-members:

• Improved overall site performance (faster page loads)
• Wider page layout to give the important bargain content more room
• Less ads (inline link ads, for example, are now only present on the bargain detail pages)
• Greater relevancy for the sponsored content presented to you

If all of this sounds pretty good to you, consider signing up with Bargain Feeder today for an even better bargain hunting experience.

Thank you for using Bargain Feeder!

P.S. Please stay tuned for even more improvements coming soon

To maximize your bargain coverage for tomorrow’s big shopping event, I recommend taking a look at the TGI Black Friday site–in addition to your usual Bargain Feeder searches and feeds of course

TGI Black Friday has all the major stores’ ad scans readily available, and even provides a nice search feature. There’s definitely a lot of fantastic Black Friday bargains from stores such as BestBuy, Staples, Office Depot, and many others.

Best of luck tomorrow with your Black Friday bargain hunting

Gizmodo published their ultimate Black Friday deal guide today. If you want a nice summary of some of the best deals for this Friday, it’s definitely worth taking a look at.

As always, many of the hottest bargains on the Web for Black Friday will be published on Bargain Feeder as soon as they become available. If there are some particular products you’re interested in, this may be the great time for you to create a custom RSS feed through Bargain Feeder, and get notified automatically if any bargains match your desired product.

FatWallet is reporting on what seems a pretty good bargain for a Sony laptop with 1 GB RAM and a 120 GB hard drive for only $399.99. We have seen a lot of search activity for this bargain today, which suggests that it is quite popular. This bargain is part of BestBuy’s Black Friday specials. If you’re looking for a decent, cheap laptop this is probably a bargain you would want to check out.

The laptop normally sells for about $700 according to Google’s Product site.

Today’s hottest bargain based on Bargain Feeder user activity is the Invicta stainless steel racing sport chronology (3913) watch from woot.com. The price is a mere $89.99, whereas Froogle is listing it between $169.85 and $229.99.

If you’re looking for a new watch this bargain might be what you’ve been looking for.

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We’ve recently added Direct2Deal bargains to our carefully selected bargain sources. To get a feeling for what Direct2Deal has to offer, we recommend you consider taking a peek at our bargains filtered by source–in this case Direct2Deal, of course

As always, we welcome any suggestions that you may have for bargain sites that you think we should add to Bargain Feeder.

If you’re a fan of the Cheap Stingy Bargains bargain site, you’ll pleased to learn that we’ve added it to Bargain Feeder’s list of great bargains sources. You’ll now be able to search for and subscribe to (via RSS) even more fantastic savings on your favorite products.

For instance, Cheap Stingy Bargains just came out with a great deal on a 24″ Dell LCD for $575 *shipped*, if you’re interested in upgrading or replacing your existing monitor.

We hope this will result in you finding even better bargains through Bargain Feeder. And, as always, if you have any other currently not supported bargains sites that you would like to see made available on Bargain Feeder, please let us know.

Shopping around for the best deal for a particular product can be both time-consuming and tiring. But, saving money is important, so perhaps you start with comparing prices at PriceGrabber. After searching PriceGrabber, you have a better picture of what the best retail price is, but what if there are promotions going on that PriceGrabber isn’t aware of? Heading over to Bargain Feeder is a good start, since we search the best bargain sites for their bargains and put them in a single, searchable place.

But, let’s say that Bargain Feeder can’t find any relevant matching bargains for the product you’re looking for, then you’re back to square one–well, not quite. Bargain Feeder enables you to subscribe to a custom RSS feed for the search you made. What this means to you is that you can now let your feed reader/news aggregator go and check every hour for new bargains that match your original search. If Bargain Feeder finds new bargains, it will return them to your feed reader. You never have to worry again about missing a bargain for the products you’re looking for.

To illustrate this with a concrete example, let’s say that I’m looking for a new Maxtor hard drive. I search for “maxtor” on Bargain Feeder, and find 40 some odd deals over the past seven days. None of the deals fit what I really want, so I click on the orange RSS icon in the top of the search results page, and voila you’ve created a custom RSS feed for your search. The next step is just to subscribe to the feed using your favorite feed reader, and you’re set.

You can create as many custom RSS feeds as you want. You can even add all kinds of interesting constraints to your search, for example, if you want to only get bargains from Deal News, just select “Deal News” from the Bargain Sites pull-down menu under the search input form, and click Apply.

Once you start using custom RSS feeds for your searches, you’ll find yourself saving a lot of time. And, they are particularly handy if you’re not in a rush to buy something, which can be useful when you’re planning for your friend’s birthday–or even your own birthday I’ve also find them to be extremely useful when I’m looking for a product that rarely have bargains associated with it.

If you don’t know what RSS is or what a feed reader/news aggregator is, for that matter, I recommend that you take a peek at our help page on Bargain Feeder. If, after reading it, you still have questions about RSS or Bargain Feeder’s custom RSS feeds, please write a comment to this blog post, or write us a note with your question.

To stay up-to-date on the latest news from Bargain Feeder, subscribe to our blog’s RSS feed today.

Based on user feedback, we have decided to add SaveMyPurse and DealTaker to the current list of bargain sites that Bargain Feeder uses in its hunt for the best bargains on the web. We believe that these two new additions will make even easier for you to find the latest, high-quality bargains.

If you have other bargain sites that you would like to see on Bargain Feeder, please write to us and let us know. We’re always open to adding new sources of great bargains.