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I don't, yet, trust you. What are you doing to provide some confidence that my name & amazon wish list won't be sold...

I use a similar site for building computers.

www.pcpartpicker.com and I love these guys. I use to go straight to NewEgg but after finding pcpartpicker, I now go there first. I'm not sure how they monetize the site but they won me over by not requiring me to sign up.

I'm too lazy to create a one off email address just to see if the site is worth it or not.

Also, I couldn't tell from your site if it's possible to enter a SKU and have the site notify me of where I could purchase it and what price history there was on it which I think would be awfully cool.

As an example, I really want to purchase a festool router but these are considered the best-of-the-best and their price reflects this and so in a manual way, I've been watching their prices on a couple web sites for sales.

Love the concept and everything else about the idea!

Another idea is if you can find users who all want to buy the same thing and see if you can leverage this to get volume discounts. I recently been playing with a site called massdrop that attempts to pull this off.




pcpartpicker monetizes via affiliate links, i.e. they get 2-8% of the sale depending on the merchant you use.




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