Our Website
Our website is comprehensive, easy to use and provides an exciting shopping experience that
encourages customer loyalty and repeat visits. We strive to add hundreds of new products to our
online product mix weekly. Our website features high-quality product images, detailed product
information and manufacturer specifications, as well as highlights of best-selling products and
suggested accessories. We continually incorporate new technologies to improve the ease of use of
our website.
Currently, the products available on the everyday low price portion of our website are
organized into several primary product categories: computers, networking, electronics and
entertainment, TVs, monitors and projectors, cameras and camcorders, memory and storage, For the
Home and sports and leisure. We also offer the same products, if they meet certain criteria, on
the proprietary Bargain Countdown® section of our website where we feature more than 100 limited
time and limited quantity product deals across our broad merchandise categories. In addition to
being able to use keyword searches to locate specific products on our website, customers can browse
or search the products available on the everyday low price portion of our website by navigating the
subcategories contained in our primary product categories and our featured manufacturer product
showcases. Products that fall within more than one subcategory on our website are often posted on
more than one web page, which we believe increases the visibility of the products and assists the
customer in finding desired merchandise.
Everyday low price. Our multi-category merchandise assortment is available in an everyday low
price retail format. Products are organized by subcategory under each major category tab. Each
major category includes informative and shopper-friendly showcases organized by manufacturer, new
technology, best sellers, seasonal gift guides, and new products. This shopping format features
discounted new products and recently released products from leading manufacturers.
Bargain Countdown®. Our proprietary Bargain Countdown® shopping format offers more than 100
close-out, recertified and highly allocated deal products in limited quantities for a limited
time. The Bargain Countdown® feature is designed as a purchasing marketplace for consumers that
creates purchase urgency by uniquely indicating the quantity of items remaining for a current offer
and the time remaining to purchase the product. Based on the popularity of an offer, an animated
graphic icon will appear to alert the customer of the items current sales velocity. After the
offer has expired, the product is removed from Bargain Countdown® and may no longer be available at
the previously deeply discounted price. Our Bargain Countdown® shopping format encourages repeat
visits to our website due to the rapidly changing mix of merchandise deals, the animated graphics,
the unique collection of close-out deals and the search for bargains. We also have theme-based
Bargain Countdown® tabs throughout the year, including Holiday Countdown, Watches and Jewelry
Countdown, and Game of the Year Countdown. Our Clearance Countdown tab is primarily used to
liquidate overstocked and excess inventory across all product categories. Our Bargain Countdown
Platinum Club® format is a version of Bargain Countdown® and offers exclusive pricing on select
merchandise to our fee-based members.
Other key features of our website include: advanced search, online order status retrieval,
online payment, shipping alternatives, online registration for promotions and catalogs and online
extended service agreement recommendations.
As a commitment to our small and medium sized business customers, we offer them access to our
business customer relationship management team, credit terms of up to net 30-days for qualified
customers, software licensing, computer system configurations and extended payment term
alternatives.
Our Merchandise
We strive to offer our customers an expansive selection of varied types of merchandise and
currently offer approximately 300,000 products in several primary merchandise categories. While our
product offerings change on a regular basis due to product availability and customer demand, we
continually offer a wide variety of merchandise.
Computers and Networking. Our computers and networking product categories contains several
subcategories including systems, software and networking equipment. In these subcategories
customers can find products such as desktop, notebook and handheld computers; servers; personal
digital assistants; various hardware, including CD and
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