Dealio Toolbar™ Reaches 1 Million Installs In Under One Year
Vendio’s Comparison Shopping Toolbar Succeeds On Word-of-Mouth, Positive Reviews; Upstanding Distribution Partnerships
SAN MATEO, Calif. November 1, 2006 — Vendio™, a leading provider of services that empower online merchants to reach consumers and manage transactions, today announced that the Dealio comparison shopping toolbar surpassed one million consumer installations in less than a year. Adoption and usage of the Dealio Toolbar™ has been driven primarily by positive word-of-mouth, reviews in both consumer and trade media, and by distribution agreements with upstanding, online sources of downloadable applications.
"The rapid adoption of Dealio demonstrates its value as a truly resourceful product for online shoppers," said Rodrigo Sales, co-founder and CEO of Vendio. "Our team will continue to develop exciting features to further improve the Dealio experience and support our ambitious plans to get Dealio onto the desktops of over ten million users in the next year."
Dealio thus far has garnered positive reviews in print, broadcast and online outlets such as Computer America (radio), The New York Times, and KNTV-TV (television) for its ease of use, intuitive and automated search capabilities and comprehensive coverage of more than 30 million products from over 100,000 qualified online merchants.
While competing shopping toolbars list their search results based on which merchant is paying the highest listing fees for the search term in question, Dealio sorts its results by lowest price first. Further, Dealio’s inclusion of eBay listings (both fixed price/storefront and auctions) in its search results provides a more complete "snapshot" of current pricing for many products – new, used or refurbished. And Dealio’s unique "auto-trigger" function alerts consumers instantly when they are one click from overpaying for virtually anything sold online.
About Vendio
Vendio is a leader in eCommerce, providing hosted software-as-a-service (SAAS) solutions for merchants. Vendio's consumer offering, Dealio, is one of the top Web 2.0 shopping sites providing coupons, comparison shopping, and user generated deals. Dealio is a direct descendant of Auctionwatch, Vendio’s pioneering comparison shopping search engine for auctions created in 1998. Today Dealio provides some of the best bargains and product depth of any shopping site by leveraging the thousands of stores hosted by Vendio.Vendio was founded in January, 1999 and is the independent leader in multi-channel online sales. Each year, tens of thousands of merchants use Vendio's sales management and merchandising services to sell over $1.6 billion of merchandise on both their own branded stores as well as the Web's leading marketplaces such as eBay. Vendio is a profitable Silicon Valley startup which acquired the assets of long time competitor Andale in 2006. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in Bucharest, Romania and Bangalore, India. Vendio is backed by Lighthouse Capital Partners and MVC Capital.
Vendio and Dealio are trademarks of Vendio Services, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners, without intent to infringe.
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