Admit it, NexTag: You Can’t Find Everything

20 01 2010

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If you don’t know what NexTag is, chances are you paid $0.46 more than you could have when you bought Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue on Amazon last week. It’s a website that compares prices for products and finds you the online site or brick-and-mortar store that has the lowest price on what you’re looking for. You know, to help fuel our nation’s race to the bottom.

Anyway, NexTag has an app for your mobile phone as well, which is useful if you’re at Sears looking at a vacuum cleaner and you want to find out how much K-Mart is charging for the same thing. Honestly, who has time to plan out their purchases? I personally sprint into Target every day after work and just randomly throw every shiny item I can find into my shopping cart. It’s how I ended up with this cool chrome frog corkscrew. But I digress.

NexTag can help you find the right price on any item. From the sublime …

The thing is, if you're shopping online for a $50,000 diamond, I don't think you're the kind of person who cares about finding one that is $2,000 cheaper.

… to the even more sublime.

Come on, is that price the best you can do? At least throw in a tube of Astroglide or something.

It’s all quite amazing. What the NexTag app shows us is that anything is for sale in this great nation of ours. Anything.

Well, the price is right. But does it come with

Well, the price is right. But does it come with psycho comments about being Zac Efron and Chinese food farts vs. Mexican food farts*, or does that cost extra?

* http://jezebel.com/5285875/megan-foxs-50-best–worst-bon-mots

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