eCOST.com Announces Greater Shopper Advantages Just in Time for the Holiday Season
November 13 2008 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
eCOST.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of PFSweb, Inc. (Nasdaq:
PFSW), and a leading multi-category online discount retailer of
brand-name technology, consumer electronics, housewares and office
products, announced today numerous site feature and product
improvements that provide eCOST.com shoppers greater selection and
shopping convenience just in time for the holiday shopping season.
eCOST.com unveiled this week an enhanced Bargain Countdown�
shopping section, 10,000 new products in the office equipment and
supply category, and a more richly featured shopping cart and
checkout experience. Collectively, these improvements will provide
shoppers at eCOST.com improved functionality, shopping speed and
overall customer experience just in time for the holiday season.
eCOST.com has become known as �THE� place for the deals on the web.
The site�s team of merchant�s source over 100 limited time, limited
quantity incredibly priced offers daily that are then offered to
shoppers on its Bargain Countdown�. These offers include products
from major manufacturers such as HP, Sony, Garmin, Dyson, Onkyo,
Denon, Cuisinart and many more. Customers will now be able to
navigate eCOST.com�s Bargain Countdown� by price, brand names and
merchandise categories allowing for easier location of the �just
right item� for the holiday. The �On Fire� status icon in the
Bargain Countdown� section allows shoppers to look at items that
have the greatest popularity and sales velocity among the tens of
thousands of shoppers who visit eCOST.com daily. Bargain Countdown�
is a proprietary, patented shopping platform that features limited
time and limited quantity hard to find merchandise offers in an
exciting and graphical user environment at prices discounted deeper
than every day low price. For a listing of today�s Bargain
Countdown� offers visit http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/countdown/.
�The enhanced Bargain Countdown�, launched just in time for Black
Friday and Cyber Monday, allows customers to quickly and easily
find the merchandise they want at a great price. The improvements
to Bargain Countdown� help customers search more easily for low
priced deals on brand name merchandise and allow new offers to be
posted on the site almost instantly after they are received in our
warehouse. We believe these improvements will provide eCOST.com
shoppers a much greater shopping convenience and access our more
than 200,000 products,� stated Gary Guy, President of eCOST.com.
Guy continued, �The improvements that we have made to Bargain
Countdown�, the new shopping cart features and the addition of
10,000 new office equipment and supply products, are part of our
efforts to make regular site enhancements to eCOST.com�s overall
functionality, navigation, product offering and customer service.
These ongoing efforts play into our broader strategy of introducing
new product categories and site improvements to provide customers
with the most fulfilling shopping experience possible. As the
overall economy struggles, we are working harder than ever to bring
incredibly priced product deals to consumers to help offset the
sting of these sluggish times.� About PFSweb, Inc. PFSweb develops
and deploys integrated business infrastructure solutions and
fulfillment services for Fortune 1000, Global 2000 and brand name
companies, including third party logistics, call center support and
e-commerce services. The company serves a multitude of industries
and company types, including such clients as LEGO, Discovery
Commerce, Riverbed, Hewlett-Packard, International Business
Machines, Hawker Beechcraft Corp., Rene Furterer USA, Roots Canada
Ltd. and Xerox. Through its wholly owned eCOST.com subsidiary,
PFSweb also serves as a leading multi-category online discount
retailer of high-quality new, "close-out" and manufacturer
recertified brand-name merchandise for consumers and small to
medium size business buyers. The eCOST.com brand markets
approximately 200,000 different products from leading manufacturers
such as Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Onkyo, Denon, JVC, Canon, Nikon,
Panasonic, Toshiba, Microsoft, Dyson, Kitchen Aid, Braun, Black
& Decker, Cuisinart, Coleman, and Citizen primarily over the
Internet and through direct marketing. To find out more about
PFSweb, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFSW), visit the company's websites at
http://www.pfsweb.com and http://www.ecost.com. The matters
discussed herein�include forward-looking information under the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which is subject
to and involves risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual
results to differ materially from the forward-looking information.
PFSweb's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2007 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 identify
certain factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those projected in any forward looking statements
made and investors are advised to review the Annual and Quarterly
Reports and the Risk Factors described therein. These Risk Factors
include the risk of contract terminations. PFSweb undertakes no
obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement for any
reason, even if new information becomes available or other events
occur in the future. There may be additional risks that we do not
currently view as material or that are not presently known.
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