Shopping Advisor Announcements

Please add your Rating and Review of Shopping Advisor

Hi everyone.  By now, you have had a chance to utilize Shopping Advisor and to discover how great this tool can be while you are shopping online.

If you like Shopping Advisor as much as we do, please take a moment to provide a rating and a review of this safe shopping tool at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9009.

As always, we really want to hear your feedback, your insights and your ideas!

Shopping Advisor approved by Mozilla for Firefox

After two months of testing in Mozilla's developmental sandbox, Mozilla approved the buySAFE Shopping Advisor for public distribution via the Firefox Add-on site starting this week.

If you aren't already using Shopping Advisor with your Firefox browser, you should install it as an add-on today.  You can check it out on the official Mozilla Firefox Add-on site here... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9009

We are obviously excited about this big milestone, and we hope you will continue to provide us with your feedback, insights and ideas on Shopping Advisor over the coming weeks and months.

Have fun, and happy new year!

Steve

A Holiday Gift from buySAFE... Shopping Advisor 3.0!

As you may have noticed, we just released a new version of Shopping Advisor for Internet Explorer!

Before giving you the highlights of this release, we want you to know that you will not need to re-install Shopping Advisor. This upgrade automatically occurred when you started your browser (If you haven't yet received the upgrade, you will the next time you start your browser).

What is new? As many of you know, we have been receiving lots of terrific feedback from you over the last several months, and based on that feedback, we have modified several key features to provide you with a better experience as follows:

• More risk-free Shopping
  You no longer need to be logged into your buySAFE account in order to receive full protection for the purchases you make through Shopping Advisor.
  
  If you purchase items from Bonded Merchants via the Safe Shopping Portal, we will automatically issue a bond guarantee (up to $25,000) for your purchase and as well as complimentary ID theft protection for 30 days.  You can then access your buySAFE account to get more details about your protection.

• Product Recommendations at your fingertips
  Product recommendations from the Safe Shopping Portal will automatically appear at the top of the search results pages on Google, Yahoo and MSN / Live, so that you can have immediate access to millions of products from the most trusted merchants on the Internet. 

• Better search results
  We have improved the Safe Shopping Portal results to give you more product selection.

• Instant access to Safe Shopping Ratings
  Click on the Rating button and you can immediately check the rating of any online store.

Try out these new features and please, keep on sending us your feedback and your ideas on how to better serve online shoppers!  We really love to hear from you.

Steve

Introducing Shopping Advisor for Firefox

Hi everyone.  More big news today.  buySAFE publicly launched the Firefox version of Shopping Advisor last week, so now we can support 95% of all shoppers on the Internet.  You can see the press release here. 

As many of you know, Shopping Advisor for Firefox has probably been the number one request we have received from users over the last month, and so we threw all of our weight behind getting this out the door and into your hands as quickly as possible.

Shopping Advisor for Firefox supports both Windows and Mac operating systems.

If you visit buySAFE, you can quickly click through to the Shopping Advisor installation page and get the new Shopping Advisor for Firefox.

Have fun, and as always, we would sincerely appreciate any feedback that you have for us!

Click here to get Shopping Advisor for Firefox.

Scheduled Maintenance - 09/27/2008

This notice is to provide you with information regarding scheduled maintenance work affecting your buySAFE service.  On Saturday, September 27, we will be doing routine system maintenance. During the maintenance period buySAFE bonding will not be active in your checkout process, and your Shopping Advisor toolbar will be inactive as well.

Date/Time:  Saturday, September 27, 2008, 4 AM - 12 PM Eastern

Duration:  Maximum 8 Hours

Customer Impact:  buySAFE Seals will function normally, but no bonds will be issued during the maintenance period.  Shopping Advisor will experience downtime during the maintenance period as well.

If you have any questions regarding this outage, please do not hesitate to contact us at customersupport@buysafe.com.

Sincerely,
buySAFE Customer Support
buySAFE, Inc.

buySAFE upgrades the Shopping Advisor Referral Program for professional affiliates

Today, we upgraded the Shopping Advisor Referral Program in order to fully support professional marketers.  The new Referral Program enables marketers to easily earn referral revenues by sharing Shopping Advisor with new users.  Referrers earn $1.00 for every new person that installs Shopping Advisor, and that means that professional marketers can earn thousands of dollars in new revenue per month from buySAFE.

If you refer 100 new Shopping Advisor users, you earn $100.00.
If you refer 5,000 new Shopping Advisor users, you earn $5,000.00.

You can learn more about the Shopping Advisor Referral Program by visiting http://www.buysafe.com/shoppingadvisor/referral.html.

Shopping Advisor beta version 2.1.1 - Release Notes

Today, we launched an updated version of Shopping Advisor.  The latest version, 2.1.1, successfully addresses several bugs and includes a number of performance improvements related to websites with heavy use of javascript.

In addition, there are minor interface changes for the Safe Shopping Portal.  The interface has been upgraded and menu items have been changed.

Finally, Shopping Advisor now supports Live.com search results in addition to Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and eBay. No upgrade is required.  Existing Shopping Advisor's users will get this update automatically.

CNET covers the beta launch of buySAFE's Shopping Advisor

CNET covered our launch of Shopping Advisor yesterday.  Their article, "buySAFE Launches Beta of eCommerce Ratings Tool", did a nice job of talking about the basic features of the buySAFE Shopping Advisor.

Check it out when you get a free moment at http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-9996513-83.html