ZingSale: Save Money By Link Shopping

By Craig Agranoff    December 12th, 2008

Everyone’s on a budget these days and ZingSale hopes to harness that need and create a budget-minded shopping portal. It’s not a store or even an affiliate-link, but rather a sort of RSS feeder for online shopping. Basically, users put in what they’re looking for (say “Gucci Wallet”) and the site alerts them whenever that product is on sale or at a discount somewhere.

Sounds great, except that everything is “on sale” or “at a discount” somewhere. The definition of these is ambiguous and I found no way to define them on the site. As a search tool for products without the alerts, however, ZingSale is still a good solution for finding lower-cost items. The results appear to be unbiased and the site loads quickly with an easy interface.

Browsing through categories makes things even easier, especially if you can’t remember the name of a specific product. A search for “Sony” in TV, for instance, can quickly be narrowed to plasma-only and then you’re likely to find the model you were after.

The site has little information on ownership and an over-simplified privacy policy that leaves a little to be desired. Their promise to never sell, rent, etc. your information is straight forward, but finding out how to contact them isn’t easy. An email link is provided as well as a PO box in Encinitas, California. That’s about it. No ownership or corporate information is available.

I personally get worried when sites don’t list this kind of information, though I know that smaller startups are probably dubious about throwing all their info out there right off the bat. It’s a best practice, however, to build user trust by showing them all the information about you that you’re expecting them to give to you about themselves.

At any rate, to search products and prices, you don’t need a login, so this can be done without giving up anything personal. As a shopping portal for discount items, it’s a good spot and one that you’ll probably find useful.

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  • Don't it sounds like a google alert? Except that it is built for shoppers and the browsing UI is easy to use.
  • Definately worth a try. It looks nice, sleek design....
  • Guess I'll give it a try myself
  • I think online shopping is rather good. Saves time and its convenient. I would love to visit that site. Thanks for the introduction !
  • i like to shop online too
  • Great for online shoppers to look the best deal. It think it is great idea but like you said almost everything is on sale or selling at discount. This aspect needs to be addressed. Isn't there a price comparison feature to point to the lowest price or something like that?
  • Just checked out ZingSale. Its looks like just another Amazon.com site providing simplified processes for searching amazon products on sale. To me, it is just complimenting Amazon. Shouldn't ZingSale partner with other online shopping site such as ebay etc to to truly give online shopper the best deals and more diversified products.
  • Looks like a good site for sure, gonns check them out.
  • Thats nice philosophy. Afterall a transparent online retailer or info provider is a trustworthy guy.

    Linda.
  • Especially now more than ever during times of an economic depression, sites like zingsale and similar will be building upon the downswing economy and may prove successful.
  • replicaloh
    Zingsale should do more in building up trust . I am worried as well for a site with few contact informations.
  • ezdisqus1
    I have been to lots of online forum or online portals and mostly are on the high end side.Great to have a budget portal!
  • dupleang
    A great concept for those with tight purse line. Would like to give it try
  • ezditto
    Trust is very important for online businesses. I believe they are still working on it.
  • thats right, with out trust we will never success in an online business
  • ryanlow
    I would that site trust is relatively important to consumers like us.However, will they be absorbing any fees in relates to the appropriate search?Haven't really check out the site yet.My opinion is, if they are just a portal for searches of low budget items I guess the site information don't really matter, do they?
  • jonaw
    I have personally tested out the site and I am falling in love with it. Who will want to pay the higher price of the product when you can get it at a discounted price after weeks or days?They even have detailed descriptions on the products shown(for those I have searched). Great one.
  • Zingsale is indeed worth the time spent to find resources that you are interested on hope to get it at a low price. Just a single search will come down to thousand over search results!It's not as non-productive as it seem.Pictures and amount you saved are stated as well.
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  • One should try it at least once.
  • Craig,

    Really useful site. Just used it to Zing a printer we want to buy and got an alert straight away re a better price than is available on Amazon.

    Nice one!
  • I like online shopping.I have visited that website.I think it's easy to use.That's great.
  • you are right Emily, this is a nice website.
  • I totally agree with you. As a consumer, I feel like I could get confused with how many different alerts I was getting that something was on sale.
  • sbs
    Keep up the excellent work! Your website helps to keep me from boredom as well.
  • Nice idea, will check it out as well. Thanks
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  • Good lookin out, I saved myself some money with this post.
  • This seems to be an interesting service. Going to check the website.
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