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[Feature] Filter rebates and stores

November 3rd, 2009

One of the advanced features that you will notice in Smazzle.com is that the platform calculates all combinations of rebates along with shipping and tax to provide you with the best prices.  We also tend to display ALL Combinations.  This inadvertently leads to multiple deals from the SAME store.  Hence we realized the need for a robust filter to filter out the rebates and stores that you donot wish to see.

Filter Rebates and Stores

Filter Rebates and Stores

As you can see, the filter provides the ability to:

  1. Filter rebates – Smazzle.com includes multiple rebates (cashback, mail-in-rebates, instant, coupons, non-instant, giftcard, shipping rebates etc) in caculating the best price.  You have the option to filter out the rebates that you are not interested in.
  2. Zip Code – Smazzle.com includes shipping and tax as part of the price calculation. Specify the zip code to provide you with accurate prices.
  3. Stores – You can also specify the stores that you would like to see deals from (or) stores that you would like to avoid.
  4. Price Range – Specify the price range to view deals only within the price range specified.

[Feature] Comparing Cashback percentage

November 2nd, 2009

One of the most important feature that is available in Smazzle.com is the ability to factor in cashback when calculating the best price.  Cashback sometimes can save you quite a bit of money, especially on big ticket items like HDTV’s.  For example  consider a recent deal request for a HDTV – ‘Sony BRAVIA Z Series KDL-52Z5100‘  . Electronics Expo had the product for a decent price of $1708.98 (prices could change) .  A cashback of 5% from Bing.com provides additional savings of around $85.44 which pushes the price down making it a favorable buy.

If you notice – Bing.com is not the only cashback provider. There are other cashback providers including mrrebates.com, ebates.com, couponcactus.com.  If you are a price savvy shopper you would want to check the percentage from each of these providers and finally select the provider with the highest cashback (Bing.com in this case).  Smazzle.com makes it very simple to compare cashback.  Infact for each and every store, we only select the provider with the BEST cashback to calculate the prices.  If you are still interested in checking cashback from other providers, we offer a convenient link  ‘Compare Cashback’ adjacent to the cashback percentage display.

cashback

Clicking on ‘Compare Cashback’ should open a window that should display all other cashback providers for that store. You can then compare cashback percentage for other stores.

Compare cashback providers

Compare cashback providers