With the holiday shopping season almost here; a lot of comparison shopping engines will be making changes to their category minimum bids. Here is a list of what has been reported so far:
Become – will not be raising their minimum bids this holiday season

Shopzilla – select categories will have their minimum bids increased from 11-16 [...]

As many of us know most shopping engines raise their CPC bidding rates during the holiday season. Become has decided to do something a little bit different!

Check out this update from Become:

Valued Partner,
Become.com is proud to announce that we are not raising our rates for the 2009 holiday season!

We recognize the need for retailers [...]

On Saturday, September 19th Solid Cactus will be performing server upgrades which will affect your Feed Perfect account. Feeds will still publish on the 19th and Feed Perfect will continue to track events behind the scenes. However, you will not be able to log into your Feed Perfect for up to 24 hours beginning on [...]

On Saturday, September 19th Solid Cactus will be performing server upgrades which will affect your Feed Perfect account.

Feeds will still publish on the 19th and Feed Perfect will continue to track events behind the scenes. However, you will not be able to log into your Feed Perfect for up to 24 [...]

Dear Partner,
Become.com is proud to announce the upcoming release of its new and improved merchant dashboard! With its easy-to-use UI and faster response time, we are sure that the merchant dashboard will be well-received by our retailers, and we would like to offer you the opportunity to get a sneak peak [...]

Our FeedPerfect help site has been updated to include a step by step walk-through for submitting your feed to Google Base through FeedPerfect!!
Click HERE to visit our help site!
Click HERE to visit the walk-through!
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Matthew.Major@solidcactus.com

Dear Valued Customer,
NexTag, Inc. has updated the Merchant Lead Referral Terms of Service Agreement, (The “Agreement”) which governs your NexTag account. The link to the updated Agreement is provided below. Please click on the link to view the Agreement. It is important that you carefully review the terms and conditions of [...]

Valued Partner,
Optimizing your products to improve performance is vital in this competitive environment, and Become.com is ready to help! Our tip to you this week–keep up with your feed!
As the manager of your Become.com campaign, it’s important for you to be actively involved in order to ensure goals are met. Taking [...]

Dear Merchant,
Please be advised that NexTag will be performing a scheduled maintenance:
Friday, July 3, 2009 to Sunday, July 5, 2009
NexTag.com will still be available to all users. However, NexTag will not import any product feeds during the scheduled maintenance. You will still have access to your tools and reports in the merchant dashboard, apart from [...]

Pronto is excited to announce the launch of three unique new brands under the Pronto umbrella. On June 18th, ProntoHome.com, ProntoTech.com and ProntoStyle.com will be introduced to the over 14 million consumers shopping on Pronto.com today.
What does this mean to your Pronto Merchant Solutions program? Initially, the launch of these new [...]