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Dealio Toolbar™ Reaches 1 Million Installs In Under One Year

Vendio's Comparison Shopping Toolbar Succeeds On Word-of-Mouth, Positive Reviews; Upstanding Distribution Partnerships

SAN MATEO, Calif. November 1, 2006 — Vendio™, a leading provider of services that empower online merchants to reach consumers and manage transactions, today announced that the Dealio comparison shopping toolbar surpassed one million consumer installations in less than a year. Adoption and usage of the Dealio Toolbar™ has been driven primarily by positive word-of-mouth, reviews in both consumer and trade media, and by distribution agreements with upstanding, online sources of downloadable applications.

"The rapid adoption of Dealio demonstrates its value as a truly resourceful product for online shoppers," said Rodrigo Sales, co-founder and CEO of Vendio. "Our team will continue to develop exciting features to further improve the Dealio experience and support our ambitious plans to get Dealio onto the desktops of over ten million users in the next year."

Dealio thus far has garnered positive reviews in print, broadcast and online outlets such as Computer America (radio), The New York Times, and KNTV-TV (television) for its ease of use, intuitive and automated search capabilities and comprehensive coverage of more than 30 million products from over 100,000 qualified online merchants.

While competing shopping toolbars list their search results based on which merchant is paying the highest listing fees for the search term in question, Dealio sorts its results by lowest price first. Further, Dealio's inclusion of eBay listings (both fixed price/storefront and auctions) in its search results provides a more complete "snapshot" of current pricing for many products - new, used or refurbished. And Dealio's unique "auto-trigger" function alerts consumers instantly when they are one click from overpaying for virtually anything sold online.

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Vendio Services Inc.
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About Vendio

Founded in 1999, Vendio Services, Inc. (www.vendio.com) helps small- to medium-sized merchants (SMM's) succeed by offering them an integrated solution to manage their sales seamlessly and cost-effectively across multiple online sales channels including their online store, Amazon.com, eBay, Google, Shopzilla, and more. Each year over 100,000 merchants use Vendio’s award winning multi-channel Platform and Applications to sell over $2 billion in merchandise. The company also operates Dealio (www.dealio.com), a shopping and coupons site for consumers. Vendio is a venture backed, privately-held company headquartered in San Mateo, California with offices in Romania and India.
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