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)
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- 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.
I searched for camcorder and Walmart came up.
I’m looking for a scarf and they sent me to Coldwater Creek.
what a fun sight with different ideas
I was looking for a laptop and it told me several different stores. I chose PCConnection.com.
I already sent an ecard from Kraft.
Tweet!
http://twitter.com/simplyandreah/status/6507072320
I am looking to buy the Take Along Thomas and Friends work and play roundhouse, and I was told to buy it at Amazon.com
jceko77@yahoo.com
I am looking for a food processor. Flit sent me to Target, cooking.com and Bed, Bath & Beyond, just to name a few stores.
roahd dahl collection, it recommended amazon.com
I put in digital picture frame and it told me to go to overstock.com
I am looking for shoes and i went to Chadwicks
I put a digital picture frame and it told me to go to overstock.com
I’m following you on twitter and I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/tmim123/status/6509162703
I looked for Flip camera and Best Buy, Circuit City, Amazon and others came up.
Searched for a calender and Amazon came up.
I follow on twitter and tweeted http://twitter.com/annedoggett/status/6509974893
I was looking for winter boots and Flit told me to check out DSW. Thanks for the chance.
I did a search for the new Hulk Hogan book, something my sister wants, and among several suggestions, the closest in distance and not online would be Target.
i searched for lego mindstorms, and it sent me to walmart.
I sent an e-card to my mom.
I follow you on twitter and tweeted
http://twitter.com/lunaj1456/status/6511477044
I searched for Laptops and Amazon came up.
austma7@aol.com
I searched for birdhouses and several stores came up: overstock.com, Amazon, Macy, Walmart, etc…
daily tweet
http://twitter.com/aaj83/status/6515384586
I’d prefer to buy something from Target. Maybe a bedroom set.
I was looking for a scarf and they sent me to Coldwater Creek. Perfect scarf at a perfect price.]
Thank you for the contest. Happy holidays.
I want to buysnacks and it went to Target
computer speakers at Comp USA
Leggings, at Chadwicks
I was looking for a Fisher Price Barn and it said I could find it at Wal-Mart.
Following on Twitter and Tweeted (as SnowflakeDay): http://twitter.com/SnowflakeDay/status/6521628444
I searched for a Kodak all in one and it sent me to several stores, including amazon.
I follow on Twitter as eswright18 and tweeted. http://twitter.com/eswright18/status/6521689434
I searched for a digital camera and one place, it told me six, was circuit city.
I was looking for a digital camera and they told me that Walmart was the place to get it.
Looking for a digital camera and it gave me several places to choose from-Walmart will be where I go.
I was shopping for HeatMax Toastie Toes Foot Warmer and Flit.com told me to look at Amazon.com
I was looking to buy a Diego backpack and Flit.com told me to look at Amazon.com
I looked up a digital pic frame…it geared me toward overstock. Thanks for the chance.
mogrill@comcast.net
tweet
http://twitter.com/MistySunrise/statuses/6529056777
heartsnflowers72@gmail.com
i saw a cape in a sales ad, but they were just selling the accessories, i couldn’t figure out how to find it, Flit sent me to Amazon. i never thought about Amazon. neat
We only buy a few things for our children for Christmas, which I finished up one night last week. For the heck of it, I did put in “Panini Press” and got 12 retailers.
I was looking for a cashmere sweater and Flit directed me to Chadwick’s!
Happy Holidays!
12/10 tweet
http://twitter.com/MeandBells/status/6533252253
Tweet!
http://twitter.com/simplyandreah/status/6534546009
tweeted http://twitter.com/annedoggett/statuses/6534604748
I looked for a Wii and was directed to Walmart, among other places.
Oh what a neat site, I was looking for Backyard Football Wii game, they said to find it at WalMart and Best Buy, I found it at the WalMart site on sale and ordered it! Thanks so much!
I was looking for a handbag and it said to go to amazon.com.
I want a new hand mixer, and Flit says that Williams Sonoma has just the one for me. YEA