I’m talking with Martin Andersen, GM of PriceRunner (a ValueClick company) tomorrow, but here’s the official press release. One really interesting aspect of PriceRunner is it’s integration of offline listings. The company employs ‘In-Store PriceRunners’ who “visit stores in your local area with a pen and pad at regular intervals to collect prices on assigned products that will be posted on the Pricerunner website.” (http://www.pricerunner.com/jobs.html)
I applied (you have to e-mail your request) to become a merchant on PriceRunner (my test store is PersonalProtectionStore.com), but never heard back from the Content Manager.
More soon…
Hi Brian,
We appreciated your enquiry. It’s exciting for us to see so much interest from online merchants like yourself in such a wide variety of categories. Some of the categories such home security are still in the development stage. We have choosen to prioritize our currently active categories and cater to merchants in those areas first while we follow-up with merchants in developing categories.
Thanks again for your interest – we will certainly be touch – please feel free to contact me with any further enquires.