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Agreement Provides New Mobile Bidding Solution and Comparison Shopping Tool to eBay® Marketplace
SAN MATEO, Calif. and AUSTIN, Texas, February 9, 2006 — Vendio™, a leading provider of services that empower merchants to reach consumers and manage online transactions, and gNumber, Inc., a leading provider of mobile e-commerce services with its innovative eBay bidding service, UnWired Buyer™, today announced a joint marketing agreement through which both companies will provide new services to eBay merchants and buyers.
The partnership promotes offerings from each company that enhance the experience with the eBay marketplace for both buyers and merchants. Dealio™, Vendio's comparison shopping toolbar, will enable UnWired Buyer™ users to find the best deals available across the Internet, including eBay auctions. UnWired Buyer will help Vendio merchants sell more by enabling their prospective buyers to bid on items during the auction's last minutes using their cell phones.
"Together, Dealio and UnWired Buyer make capturing the best deals online even easier," said Rodrigo Sales, founder and CEO of Vendio. "Dealio makes it simple for buyers to locate great deals across the Web, and UnWired Buyer ensures they don’t miss winning the best eBay deals when they are away from their computers by allowing buyers to bid from anywhere using their cell phones."
As part of the agreement, Vendio will promote UnWired Buyer to all its merchants, who will be able to add an UnWired Buyer link to their eBay listings or through other correspondence and receive registration compensation through the Vendio affiliate program. UnWired Buyer provides merchants with the opportunity to receive more bids on their auctions by allowing buyers to bid on eBay listings from anywhere using a mobile phone. UnWired Buyer's service is free to eBay members.
UnWired Buyer works by placing a phone call to the user in the last 3 minutes of a listing, which then allows the user to place bids for the item using simple touch-tone commands. "With UnWired Buyer, Vendio merchants will be able to reach all potential buyers and secure additional bids on listings down to the last minute, regardless of the buyer's location," said Indraj Gill, CEO of gNumber. "We have seen that UnWired Buyer's free service improves the auction close rates for sellers."
According to the terms of the joint agreement, UnWired Buyer will offer the free Dealio Toolbar to all its users. Dealio is the first comparison shopping toolbar to incorporate auction and fixed price listings from eBay. It operates unobtrusively within a consumer's Web browser and provides coverage for millions of products from tens of thousands of eBay merchants without requiring shoppers to visit a Web site each time they want to conduct a search. Dealio can be downloaded for free from the UnWired Buyer Web site or from www.dealio.com.
The Dealio service from Vendio will help enhance eBay users' shopping experiences, and UnWired Buyer will maximize their eBay bidding results by placing a call in the final minutes of the listing and reducing the risk of missing an opportunity to bid on important items.
Contacts:
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Becky Caudill SHIFT Communications for Vendio (415) 591.8418 Contact Public Relations |
Mary Browning Marketing Director gNumber 512.646.1505 |
About Vendio
Vendio enables merchants to reach consumers, manage transactions, and profitably grow their businesses. Dealio, Vendio's new comparison shopping service, empowers consumers to find the best deals quickly and easily from respected merchants while shopping online. Vendio's award-winning sales management services include Sales Manager Inventory Edition (named by eBay as the most innovative application for the eBay platform in 2005), Vendio Gallery, Vendio Image Hosting, and several other applications that save merchants time and increase their sales.Vendio was founded in January 1999 and is the independent leader in online sales management. Each month, tens of thousands of small businesses utilize Vendio's sales management and merchandising services to sell over $50MM of products on both their own branded stores as well as the Web's leading marketplaces. The company is privately held, recently celebrated its third year of profitable growth, and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Eastern Europe.
About gNumber, Inc.
gNumber, Inc., develops and delivers real-time, customized e-commerce services to mobile phones, using Internet Protocol over Voice or "IPoV™" based technology. gNumber has patents pending on many aspects of securely delivering and interacting with time-critical online services via enhanced voice applications. UnWired Buyer for eBay, the gNumber flagship offering, is a certified eBay Compatible Application and is available free of charge to the end-user. UnWired Buyer for eBay can be used on any mobile phone and is currently available for U.S. eBay users only. gNumber, Inc., is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit www.unwiredbuyer.com.# # #
Vendio, Dealio and Dealio Toolbar are trademarks of Vendio Services, Inc. eBay is a registered trademark of eBay, Inc. UnWired Buyer and gNumber are trademarks of gNumber, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners, without intent to infringe.



