I recently signed TheTechLounge up for
ReviewMe, a site which allows companies to pay publishers a small fee to have their product or service reviewed. The fee is pretty insignificant, so I can't say I'm really doing it for the money. I just figured it would be an interesting new way of finding new (read: random) things to write about. This will be my first ReviewMe review, but you can expect more to be posted on my blog in the future.
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If you're anything like me, you probably spend hours researching products before you actually make a purchase. And much of that time is spent looking at all the various prices, sales, discounts, and rebates available for that product. When you do a little research, sometimes it really pays off, as it did with my
Canon 24-70 2.8L purchase with huge discounts from Dell. I ended up selling that lens for a profit a couple of months later. You gotta love a good deal.
FuseDeals.com is a website which basically consolidates deals from all the major deal websites such as
SlickDeals.net,
FatWallet.com,
TechBargains.com and more... There are 12 total feeds. The site is updated automatically throughout the day, so you don't have to worry about any lack of updates. This is a really great idea for the frequent deal hunter, and I can see myself using it in the future. With that said, the site isn't perfect, and I have a couple suggestions for improvement.
1) It would be nice if there was some sort of categorization of the deals, like there is on FatWallet, for example. I realize this may not be possible to do automatically, however, so it may not be doable.
2) A more realistic feature which I think should be implemented is a search function. It should be possible to parse all of the feeds in order to search for something specific, such as "Dell" or "iPod Nano." This alone would make the site much more useful.
Check it out here:
Daily Deals