After feedback from you guys, I’ve made some tweaks to the site and hope that you like them. You can now easily see the latest deals in each category, and it’s easier to ignore deals from categories that you don’t care about. If you “don’t” like what you see, click on the two drop down menus in the blue bar above the deals. Clicking on Show As “grid” will get you back to the view you’re used to. And on the Order By dropdown, you can still sort by Newest Arrivals and Most Popular, if you prefer those over the new default – Category.
Please let me know what you think about it by commenting on this post or emailing me at Jack (at) Bargain Jack(dot)com. Also, I’m thinking of killing the daily writeup to move more deals to the top of the page. If you feel (more…)
This is a video that introduces the new BargainJack.com, and some of the exciting new features in our brand new deal engine!
BargainJack.com exists because your wallet doesn’t understand the depth of your love for shiny new gadgets. Exclusive deals, hand-picked price drops, unpublished sales…Jack has your back. Here’s a video we put together to highlight some of our new features and to generally share our bargain shopping joy with the world…you know, for the children. We appreciate the awesome support we’ve enjoyed during our 4-year-and-counting bargain quest. Keep the love coming and please spread the word. Again, for the children.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, or tips on hot new promotions, please contact us, either by commenting in this post or emailing us at jack@bargainjack.com. Cheers!
Jack
Our first Caption This Contest is complete, and we’ve declared a winner! Congratulations to David Perkins from Santa Ana, CA for winning! He gets a $25 gift certificate, as well as bragging rights among all his friends. What more could a man ask for?
Stay tuned for the next contest and your chance to win!
I’m constantly looking for creative ways to bring BargainJack to the masses. The more people who visit this wasteland, the more we smile; and the more we smile, the more time we spend finding great deals and improving our content.
With that, we are looking for suggestions on great new contests for BargainJack. If you have an idea related to increasing exposure for BargainJack, or increasing activity on certain parts of the site like our forums, etc., please let us know! We love to give away free stuff, and more often than not, we can find a willing victim partner through our extensive merchant relationships to work with us on a cool prize!
An example of an item from our Wacky Fun Stuff category
Now that the new site is launched, I plan on keeping this blog a little more updated with information about new features, enhancements, and tips about using the site. As the first installment in this series, I’d like to introduce you to one of my favorite categories: Wacky Fun Stuff!
Many of you have noticed the right column widget on the main page. This widget provides an extremely powerful set of features for focusing in on particular products.
Under the category subset of this widget, you’ll see the various categories we feature, such as computers, electronics, tools, etc.
One of my favorite categories is a category we’ve had for quite some time called Wacky Fun Stuff! We like to put crazy, wacky, and just plain fun items in this category. You’ll regularly find RC cars and planes, water guns, gag items, and whatever else we decide that’s crazy enough to feature here.
So be sure to check out this new category feature, and check out my favorite category! It’ll make you smile…
That’s right, the new BargainJack design is now live! After months and months of hard work, we have finally launched the new BargainJack!
We really hope you appreciate the new design. Our goal was to implement all of the constructive criticisms of the old site, like poor search indexing, site navigation, etc.
We also added a few new features, like polls and the price slider filter. You’ll also notice several other filter options in the filter widget on the right side of the main page. You can use this to focus in on a certain category, which we hope will make the site extremely powerful.
So please let us know if you have any problems or questions! I’m sure there will be a few bumps along the way, but overall, we look forward to our future with the new design!
Thanks,
Jack
Thanks to everyone who took the time to submit really great feedback on the new site design. Nik M from Randolph, NJ is our winner thanks to his great, actionable feedback. Nik will enjoy the sweet experience of spending $100 of my money at Buy.com.
Nik says he is a dedicated online shopper, researching online even when he chooses to shop brick and mortar. He has bookmarked BargainJack.com on all of his computers, so we know that he has the instincts of a cheetah and Donald Trump combined. Nik is a Hospitality Industry professional, and is the “resident geek” for his family and buddies when it comes to gadgets and what to buy. But the claim to fame that will really make some of you proud: Nik is a die-hard Mac user and has converted almost 10 people (friends and family) to Mac on his behest.
Congrats, Nik, and thanks again to everyone for sharing what you think about the redesign. ALWAYS feel free to email me at jack@bargainjack.com and let me know what you think about the site or tell me your ideas to improve it. You might have noticed, I do care what you think and am always working to make BargainJack.com more awesome.
Cheers!
-Jack
UPDATE: The winner has been chosen. Congrats to Nik M of Randolph, NJ!
Thanks so much to everyone for the great feedback so far. We are learning a lot. We are still working on some image problems in Internet Explorer, so sorry to those of you who see one wonky-looking beta site right now.
We are extending the survey contest to midnight tonight. The person who submits the MOST HELPFUL feedback will win a $100 gift certificate to Buy.com, so please fill out a survey now.
Depending on how many bugs we can squash today, the new site will be launched either Wednesday or Thursday.
I am SO ridiculously excited about this new design…I’m like Ralphie when he got his Red Rider BB gun…so I am happy to see how many of you see features that you really like in this new design. Keep the feedback coming!
Cheers!
Jack
UPDATE: The winner has been chosen. Congrats to Nik M of Randolph, NJ! Even though the contest is over, we’ll still keep this survey active for a few more days in case you want to share your feedback. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Check out the new beta design of BargainJack.com and fill out this survey. The person who submits the MOST HELPFUL survey will win a $100 gift card to Buy.com and eternal glory. So please, be brutally honest. Thanks for playing. Winner will be announced on Wednesday.
After months of preparation, the new beta version of BargainJack is now live! Please proceed with caution, as a few links are still broken, and some of the content pages still need to be updated.
Nonetheless, if all goes well, we will be launching this site as soon as possible! Look for a target launch date of somewhere between Saturday, 9/19 and Sunday, 9/27.
As always, we love feedback! Just send your comments to jack@bargainjack.com. We read everything that comes through, and will try to reply to as many as possible!
After feedback from you guys, I’ve made some tweaks to the site and hope that you like them. You can now easily see the latest deals in each category, and it’s easier to ignore deals from categories that you don’t care about. If you “don’t” like what you see, click on the two drop down menus in the blue bar above the deals. Clicking on Show As “grid” will get you back to the view you’re used to. And on the Order By dropdown, you can still sort by Newest Arrivals and Most Popular, if you prefer those over the new default – Category.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to submit really great feedback on the new site design. Nik M from Randolph, NJ is our winner thanks to his great, actionable feedback. Nik will enjoy the sweet experience of spending $100 of my money at Buy.com.
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