blog

Price Protection

How often have you postponed buying something because you have heard that the price is expected to drop? It does happen once in a while, but more often than not the price remains the same no matter how long you wait and in the worst case scenario, the price may even increase.

 

So what have you achieved? Usually nothing! In fact you have denied yourself the use of whatever you were waiting for. What have you lost in the meantime? If it was something work related, your have lost out on efficiency or productivity. It could even mean you lost out on a customer because you did not have the equipment you need to accept the order. If it was something personal like a music system, or a TV, you have lost the pleasure it would have provided you for the time you were waiting.

 

Okay, so no one wants to waste money and why spend now if there is even a small possibility of pricing dropping soon. Many companies are helping people to overcome this problem by a policy of price protection.

 

Price protection is an extension of what is called “price matching.” You must have come across price matching. That’s where a seller promises you that if you can find the same product he is offering at a cheaper price from another supplier, he will immediately match that lower price. Price protection is where companies commit that if the prices of their products drop within a fixed time after you have bought them, they will refund the price difference to you. While the price protection period varies from company to company and product to product, it is usually valid for at least one month from the date of purchase.

 

But how do you keep track of the possible price drops in the things you buy? You can’t keep checking with the store or visiting the manufacturers’ website. And even if you do, you could still overlook something that could save you money – maybe hundreds of dollars or more, depending on what you bought.

 

There is a new website that offers you a simple way to keep track of this. Trackle.com is a site that enables you to set up tracklets for tracking the price movement of things you have bought. Once you set up the tracklet for price protection for a specific product, you will be notified as soon as there is any change. That’s it. Nothing more to do. Sit back and forget about worry about whether prices have come down. Trackle.com’s price protection tracklets will keep track of it for you.

 

Trackle.com’s price protection tracklets are easy to set up and anyone can do it. You can now forget about waiting for prices to drop. As long as the manufacturer has a price protection policy (and more and more are getting into it), you can buy without fear of not having waited and perhaps saving money.

 

Visit Trackle.com and set a price protection tracklet and see how easy it is. And besides price protection there are many other tracklets you can set up to keep you informed of just about any developments and news on the web.

Crime in Your Neighborhood

Wherever you live, crime and your safety, both of your business and your family, are major concerns. The need to know what is happening in your area is important not just so that you know what you may need to do, but so that you can take the right precautions at the right time.

The right time is a critical factor. Finding out about a rash of robberies in your neighborhood even a few hours after it happens is a few hours lost in taking steps to protect yourself. But you can't spend all day sitting by the TV to see what's happening or wander around with a radio stuck to your ear. And even if you could, how do you know the broadcast you are listening to is going to cover the news that interests you?

A lot of people are turning to the internet as a source of up to the minute news. But here again the problem is that you can't spend all your time surfing the web and even in the time you have to do it in, with so much happening all the time, you could easily miss out on the news that's important to you.

But what about a service that finds the news that you need to know and sends it to you? There's a new website called Trackle.com that does just this. Lets suppose you live in Sunnyvale. Go to Trackle.com and set a tracklet for "crime in Sunnyvale." A tracklet is an alert you place on the site, which monitors just about all the news on the web as it appears. If there is any news regarding "crime in Sunnyvale", Trackle.com will immediately send you a notification.

That's all there is to it. Just set your tracklet for tracking crime in your neighborhood and forget about manually researching about crime around your neighborhood. If anything happens and the news appears on the internet, you will be informed about it. And news on the web is real time. When something happens, someone somewhere will post the news. So no more needless worrying for you. If there is a crime in your neighborhood, you will be among the first to know about it and will have the time you need to see how it affects you and if there is anything you should be doing to protect yourself.

 

Setting up a tracklet is easy and takes almost no time at all. And once its in place, it stays there till you cancel it. That means that as long as your crime in your neighborhood tracklet has been set, you need to do no more.

And you can set tracklets to keep you informed of almost anything that appears on the web, from what the weather will be every Sunday, to whatever news your favorite team is making, to serious business concerns. Using Trackle.com's tracklets, you can se sure that if it interests you and you have set up a tracklet, you will be informed about the news as soon as it appears on the web.