Holiday Shopping Made Easy with Flit.com
December 8, 2009 by Erin Tales
Filed under Contests & Giveaways, Holidays, WebSites
I admit, I am done with my holiday shopping. But before you throw glass ornaments at me, those of you who have been waiting to shop might have caught the better deal. See, I was just introduced to a site called Flit.com. Flit.com is a new online shopping tool that supports the way people shop “naturally” – by visiting their favorite stores. Unlike other search or comparison shopping engines that produce product listings from various vendors, with Flit.com you can spend time inside different retailers’ sites, retaining the personality and using the customized search capabilities of each store. But when you leave the store, Flit.com still knows what you are looking for.
My favorite part of Flit, as you move from store to store, is that it shows a search trail so you have a visual track of the stores you’ve looked in and lets you return directly to purchase the item with the best price.
Flit.com lets you search though 275 leading retail brands spanning 30-plus popular categories including fashion, home goods, jewelry, electronics, sports and gourmet foods. The Flit.com team adds stores daily based on user requests. Must-have stores like Target, Toys R Us and Walmart are included in their search.
My second favorite thing about Flit.com is that you only need to enter a search just once. Once Flit knows what you are looking for, it will populate that search into all the stores until you are ready to look for something new.
One thing I learned about Flit was that it is a great tool to do price matches, since you can find items so quickly at all of the stores. For example, we bought my son a Mustang Power Wheel for his birthday. I did a search for it and saw it $60 cheaper at a few sites. You can bet my bottom dollar that tomorrow I am going to get the price matched at Walmart!
So if you want to avoid busy stores and looking endlessly for the perfect (and best priced) gift online, check out Flit.com – it’s like having your own virtual personal shopper!
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One Buzz Reader will win a $50 American Express Card to finish their holiday shopping on Flit.com
MANDATORY ENTRY: Visit Flit.com. Search for a gift! What are you looking to buy and where did Flit tell you to buy it?
EXTRA ENTRIES:
To receive these extra opportunities for entries, you must fulfill the first REQUIRED entry. But for extra entries, you can do the following – leave a comment for each:
- Add ErinTales to your Twitter and Tweet the contest. Leave your Tweet Link. (1 tweet per day is allowed)
- Blog about the contest – add a link to the Mom Buzz and the Sponsor
- Join the Mom Buzz Ning Site – a place for all Mom Buzz Readers to talk about toys, products and shopping.
- Send a Free E-Card from Kraft – 10 Meals will be donated to Feeding America! (Let me know for an extra entry!)
Contest ends 12/16/09. Please refer to complete contest rules. The entries listed above are the ONLY entries for this contest. Winners will be notified by e-mail (if supplied in the entry or on profile page), as well as on the Winner’s Wall.
This is solely the opinion of the Mom Buzz. Other people may have different experiences with the product. And don’t forget to enter my other hot contests so you can win and try buzzworthy products! The Mom Buzz was not compensated for this uber-cool buzz.
daily tweet: http://twitter.com/SnowflakeDay/status/6747698277
I looked for a Sony Blu-ray player and found it at Amazon.com. Thanks!
Looking for an iPod Touch and it looks like Target is the place to go.
Would love to win this!!
I am looking to buy a drill. It told me to go Sears first then Home Depot. It suggested a bunch of other places too.
Sewing machine! Walmart!
I follow you on twitter (ag1414) and tweeted: http://twitter.com/ag1414/status/6751462417
I;m looking to buy a toy for my son. It recommended Wal-Mart
I sent a Kraft e-card to aricanden@hotmail.com
I joined your Ning Network ag1414
I’m looking for a laptop, and I can find it at Best Buy.
sent a free e-card.
An HP Printer and I can find it at Office Max!
I did a search for a Zune HD mp3 player, and Flit recommended Amazon.com, Target, and Best Buy, among others. Great site! Thanks!
I’m following on twitter (@guettel78), and I tweeted: http://twitter.com/guettel78/status/6752348307
I blogged: http://slavetoacademia.blogspot.com/2009/12/50-american-express-gc-giveaway-at-mom.html
I joined the Mom Buzz Ning site — thanks!
I sent an e-card from Kraft to my mom – thanks!
Looking to buy a Garmin GPS. Flit suggested stores such as Amazon, Target, CompUSA, Newegg and Buy.com.
Sent a Kraft ecard.
Thanks for the giveaway… I was looking for a toner cartridge for a Samsung SCX 4200 laser printer and was directed to Amazon.com, among others.
Following via Twitter: @brianpiero
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/brianpiero/status/6753351669
I am looking to buy a treadmill and Flit told me to buy it at REI outlet.
Sent a Free E-Card from Kraft…
tv at Walmart
Wii at walmart.
i searched bluray player and it said j&r electronics
http://twitter.com/klp1965/status/6753822201
12-16 RT
http://twitter.com/EightyMPHMom/status/6753835089
Daily tweet! http://twitter.com/my_twitraccount/status/6754025489
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I am looking for a Panini grill. Several stores came up including Bed Bath & Beyond. Thanks!
Maybe if I was looking for a standard brand name product this would work, but I put in the generic term “cat tree.” Flit suggested 9 stores. I looked at 5 of them. A couple showed me nothing but Christmas trees. One showed me wallpaper. Sears is apparently like amazon.com now, serving as a clearinghouse for various other websites. I had selected “value stores” and they had one that was perhaps a reasonable price, but most of them were three or four hundred dollars and one was over eight-hundred.
I searched for zeno, and it told me to go to Target. Sweet!
I’m looking to buy a GPS system and FLIT referred me to Target.
Follow Erin on Twitter & tweeted @ http://twitter.com/Naddez/status/6754274197.
Sent a Free E-Card from Kraft
I love this i was looking for pink legos box and it suggested alot of sites so i went to shopzilla and it had all the prices to the cheapest
I searched for lap desk and Flit told me to find it at Levenger.com.
I searched for a dvd player and it suggested walmart, bestbuy and amazon
follow you twitter and tweeted
http://twitter.com/Ardy22/status/6754712748
sent an ecard to my friend winston729 at earthlink dot net
blogged giveaway
http://ardy22.blogspot.com/2009/12/holiday-shopping-made-easy-with-flitcom.html
A laptop at best buy
Set of pans, Amazon.com recommended
Looking for a HD tv and I can get it a tbest buy