Vendio™ and gNumber Announce Joint Marketing Agreement
Agreement Provides New Mobile Bidding Solution and Comparison Shopping Tool to eBay® Marketplace
The partnership promotes offerings from each company that enhance the experience with the eBay marketplace for both buyers and merchants. Dealio™, Vendio's comparison shopping toolbar, will enable UnWired Buyer™ users to find the best deals available across the Internet, including eBay auctions. UnWired Buyer will help Vendio merchants sell more by enabling their prospective buyers to bid on items during the auction's last minutes using their cell phones.
"Together, Dealio and UnWired Buyer make capturing the best deals online even easier," said Rodrigo Sales, founder and CEO of Vendio. "Dealio makes it simple for buyers to locate great deals across the Web, and UnWired Buyer ensures they don't miss winning the best eBay deals when they are away from their computers by allowing buyers to bid from anywhere using their cell phones".
As part of the agreement, Vendio will promote UnWired Buyer to all its merchants, who will be able to add an UnWired Buyer link to their eBay listings or through other correspondence and receive registration compensation through the Vendio affiliate program. UnWired Buyer provides merchants with the opportunity to receive more bids on their auctions by allowing buyers to bid on eBay listings from anywhere using a mobile phone. UnWired Buyer's service is free to eBay members.
UnWired Buyer works by placing a phone call to the user in the last 3 minutes of a listing, which then allows the user to place bids for the item using simple touch-tone commands. "With UnWired Buyer, Vendio merchants will be able to reach all potential buyers and secure additional bids on listings down to the last minute, regardless of the buyer's location," said Indraj Gill, CEO of gNumber. "We have seen that UnWired Buyer's free service improves the auction close rates for sellers".
According to the terms of the joint agreement, UnWired Buyer will offer the free Dealio Toolbar to all its users. Dealio is the first comparison shopping toolbar to incorporate auction and fixed price listings from eBay. It operates unobtrusively within a consumer's Web browser and provides coverage for millions of products from tens of thousands of eBay merchants without requiring shoppers to visit a Web site each time they want to conduct a search. Dealio can be downloaded for free from the UnWired Buyer Web site or from www.dealio.com.
The Dealio service from Vendio will help enhance eBay users' shopping experiences, and UnWired Buyer will maximize their eBay bidding results by placing a call in the final minutes of the listing and reducing the risk of missing an opportunity to bid on important items.