Smart Shopping for a Smart Family

The harsh economic times urge us to become smarter: not as solitary persons, but as families! There is no need to waste money or spend more than needed, no matter if we're talking about luxury products for the family or regular, day-by-day stuff. We have to be smart and go for some smart shopping. Care for a confession?

Price!pinx (www.PricePinx.com), an online social shopping service, launched the Smart Shopper initiative to collect shopping and money savings tips from shoppers. All tips collected will be featured on Price!pinx and also published on a popular social-blogging site.

The free shopping service helps online shoppers to get great deals and lets them save money and time. It allows shoppers to request price drop alerts for any product on almost any retailer’s website. The service smoothly integrates into the user’s online shopping experience by using a smart bookmarklet: on the retailer’s website the shopper clicks the smart bookmarklet which automatically records the product information and the price. Price!pinx then monitors the price and notifies shoppers about price drops as they happen.

The user’s shopping list feature consolidates the products from many retailers’ websites into easy and manageable lists. Price!pinx members can quickly organize the products they want into wish lists, which are easily shared with family and friends.

Price!pinx monitors product prices on more than 2500 websites in the US, U.K., Canada, and Australia. Since its launch in March 2008 the price monitoring engine found over $2 Million in product savings. This number does not include real estate house price drops which users also track with Price!pinx.