A Buying Search Engine: Jellyfish.com

December 22, 2007 – 10:34 am

Consider how e-bay works. You look for a product; you find it; you look at the asking price and then you bid on it. You know that you are bidding against other potential buyers for those goods. Now consider a different scenario. Again you are looking for a product, you find it, but now the sellers are bidding against each other to get the lowest price available to you for the product. That is how www.Jellyfish.com works.

It is a search engine for buyers. While search engines are useful for finding information, another approach is to use a search engine that can help when you want to buy something online. Product and price comparison sites are good; but you are still at the beck and call of the merchants. You may be doing it online but it is like the real shopping experience. Instead of walking from store to store you are cruising from site to site and making product and price comparisons. It’s the same but different.

The Hook!

OK. So you like the idea of having merchants bid for your purchase. But Jellyfish goes even better. They share their revenue with you.

The merchants welcome this because it can keep you coming back. Jellyfish likes it to because they promise the merchants that you will keep coming back.

They take a percentage of the revenue you generate associated with your buying activity and redistribute it back to you.

This is what the call their cash back promise. For every dollar that they earn they will share at least half with you when you shop and buy products listed with merchants from their sites.

You must be a member of the Jellyfish community to earn that cash back, but all you need to do is sign up; it’s free. There are no other charges or fees.

What’s in it for the merchant?

Merchants are wary about new schemes that promise many new customers. They’ve seen and heard it before. Here is what Jelly fish offer: the qualified traffic of a comparison engine. They also off a risk-free profitability picture associated with the cost per sale advertising model. Here are some of the benefits. They provide a risk-free commercial channel. There is a fixed return on advertising spent, and you can list all your products at a fixed ROI. There is not Click Fraud.

Smack Shopping

Another innovation is Smack Shopping. A Smack is a group of Jellyfish, and it is a live social shopping show. Smack Shopping provides a price dropping format. The audience is allowed to set the selling price and create deals on the online products.

How Smacking Works

During each Smack show, Jellyfish auctions off new products in a price dropping format. As the seconds tick off the clock, the price of the product drops until there is a sell off. Furthermore, to increase interest, they don’t tell the audience how many product units are available for each auction. So buyers can get better deals as time progresses but every second you wait could mean that it sells and once the product is gone, the deal is over. This community of shoppers is social besides a shopping format to share information.

The Smack Shopping deals occur 24/7/365. You can see a full show schedule located at www.Jellyfish.com/smacktv. All items are new; never used or refurbished items are offered up. Moreover, each show is presented with a different theme. This will provide you with an idea about the product category to be presented during that show.

You can also earn smack coins. These are a virtual currency that you can earn by playing games and being involved in other social activities at Jellyfish.com. The coins have a redemption value for free prizes. A coin value is assigned to each prize.

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