Buyingedge.com Expands Web Site Now Offers Comparison Shopping for Home and Garden Products
BusinessWire, Tuesday, August 31, 1999 at 10:26
SHELTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 1999--Buyingedge.com, (http://www.buyingedge.com) the most comprehensive, consumer-driven, business-friendly marketplace on the Internet, announced today it has expanded its product category offerings to include Home and Garden products. The new Home and Garden category will add thousands of products from a wide variety of merchants to the existing product categories of consumer electronics, sporting goods, home office equipment and musical instruments. "We are excited about delivering on our objective to give our customers the most complete Internet shopping experience possible: more products, more categories, more options," says buyingedge.com CEO Gary Martino. He adds, "We want buyingedge.com to remain the Internet shopping destination where buyers get the best deals and merchants get the most customers." The new Home and Garden section will feature a wide array of home and garden products including: small and major appliances, home furniture, towels, linens and bedding, kitchen wares, carpets and rugs, hand tools, and power tools. With the new Home and Garden category, Martino says, "We take one more step to ensure that buyingedge.com is the premier Internet shopping destination for people of all ages." "My company sells a full range of home electronics and home appliances," says Luke Baldwin, owner of Bill May TV and Appliance, Inc., Richmond, Virginia. "I simply don't have the resources to develop an e-commerce solution to attract new customers from the Web. Buyingedge.com makes e-commerce affordable to me."
How It Works Buyingedge.com offers consumers a better way to shop on the Web; at buyingedge.com, buyers are in control. They can easily and efficiently submit purchase requests and have them automatically distributed to many merchants who sell the requested product. Merchants receive purchase requests and respond to those requests using their buyingedge.com account. Buyingedge.com enables consumers to consult with merchants, solicit the best purchase terms, and conclude the purchase at their discretion. In addition, the system provides the tools that help both buyers and merchants track, organize and analyze buyer requests and merchant responses. The result is a positive and effective experience for both buyers and merchants. Buyers can get the best deals possible and merchants, both on- and off-line, can increase their business.
About Buyingedge.com Buyingedge.com is the most comprehensive, consumer-driven and business-friendly marketplace on the Internet. Formed in June of 1999, the site (http://www.buyingedge.com) already brings more than 32,000 buying members and 4,000 vendors together for the dynamic and negotiable sale of brand name consumer goods. Buyingedge.com was formed and then successfully spun-off as a separate business entity by Information Management Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMAA), a leading provider of enterprise software. Current investors include IMA, @Ventures, Inc. (the affiliated venture capital arm of CMGI), Wand Partners, Inc., Amicus Capital, LLC, and Madrona Investment Group, LLC. Buyingedge.com has offices in Shelton, Connecticut and Redwood Shores, California. For more information, go to buyingedge.com, e-mail info@buyingedge.com or call 1-877-889-8900.
CONTACT: PepperCom Kenneth Juarez 212/931-6138 kjuarez@peppercom.com or Buyingedge.com Jacques Wagemaker 203/925-6893 jw@buyingedge.com |