Thursday, June 29, 2006
SEATTLE, Wash. – June 29, 2006 – Mpire™, the company that empowers millions of people who buy and sell used and hard-to find items online, today announced the availability of Mpire Pricing Guides, a fun and informative way to get up-to-the-minute sales trends for the hottest used and hard-to-find items available on the Internet. Mpire Pricing Guides feature detailed analytics and sales data for popular items from Mpire's online shopping service, including the average sales price of each item and the quantity available for sale at leading online sales destinations such eBay, Yahoo, Overstock.com and Craigslist. Available in several categories, including Home and Garden; Clothes and Accessories; Babies and Toddlers; iPods; Cell Phones; PlayStations; XBox; and Star Wars, Mpire Pricing Guides can be accessed free-of-charge at http://www.mpire.com.
Mpire Pricing Guides deliver a unique shopping experience, letting users shop by color, by category, by catalog, or by price. Presented in an interactive and visually appealing format, Mpire Pricing Guides enable consumers to keep pace with the most sought-after items and know exactly what the items are worth. Shopping can be a tedious task for many people, but the Mpire Pricing Guides make information gathering and the discovery of good deals a fun experience for all ages.
“Mpire is passionate about helping consumers make smart buying decisions, and the Mpire Pricing Guides are a great example of that,” said Matt Hulett, Mpire Chairman and CEO. “The response from both consumers and potential partners to the guides has been overwhelmingly positive, and we look forward to adding additional categories soon.”
Zillow.com and Judy’s Book Inaugural Mpire Pricing Guide Sponsors
Zillow.com, the popular consumer real estate Web site, is one of the inaugural partners of the new Mpire Pricing Guides and is sponsoring the Home and Garden pricing guide.
“Zillow and Mpire share a belief that consumers need smart services to research the market value of items that are important to them, whether it's an everyday purchase or a major investment such as their home,” said Spencer Rascoff, CFO and Vice President of Marketing at Zillow. “We’re proud to be the inaugural sponsor of the Mpire Pricing Guides, an innovative way to help consumers make smarter decisions."
Another sponsor pleased with the early results of the pricing guides is Judy’s Book, which currently supports the Babies and Toddlers guide.
“Judy's Book is an online community where people share valuable, real-life information about the best and worst services and products in their area,” said Andy Sack, CEO of Judy’s Book. “Mpire Pricing Guides gives our users up-to-the-minute sales trends for the hottest items based on actual purchasing behavior, and that helps members of our community shop smarter.”
RSS Feeds, Search Box Code and Tag Clouds
The RSS feeds available for each Mpire Pricing Guide have been programmed to deliver content from hot categories, giving subscribers a topline view that displays the average selling price of popular items. Using the RSS feeds, Web sites can provide their visitors with historical sales trends and data that they can use to find the items they're looking for. Mpire is also making it easy for anyone to add the Mpire search box to their web site. By visiting the partner area on the Mpire Web site, anyone can grab the HTML snippet to cut and paste into their site, helping to drive traffic and allowing their users to immediately search for the best deals directly from their site. Mpire is also making shopping “tag clouds” available, letting users see the most popular searched for items in a given category.
About Mpire
Mpire empowers the millions of people
who buy and sell used and hard-to-find items online. The company’s
buyer and seller services save users valuable time and provide them
with powerful insights, enabling them to make more informed decisions.
Founded in 2005, Mpire is backed by Ignition Partners and former eBay
executive Richard Rock. Please visit www.mpire.com
for more information.
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