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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LIVEDEAL.COM HELPS VOLUME SELLERS ENHANCE THEIR VISIBILITY AND BUILD
BRAND IDENTITIES WITH NEW ONLINE CLASSIFIEDS PREMIUM STORE PROGRAM

Also Unveils New Bid-For-Placement, Premium Online Classifieds Listings
to Benefit Premium Store Owners and Other Interested LiveDeal Sellers
 

SANTA CLARA, Calif. , May 16, 2006 – LiveDeal.com ( www.livedeal.com), one of the nation’s leading local online classifieds sites, today announced the introduction of its new Premium Store Program, ideal for volume sellers such as small business owners, realtors, professional pet breeders and anyone seeking to build their visibility and brand identities within LiveDeal’s local online classifieds marketplace. Priced at $9.95 a month, the Premium Store Program enables sellers to create branded stores on LiveDeal.com to help drive more traffic to their store, raise their LiveDeal profile and build relationships with potential buyers.

“Our Premium Store Program is designed to create a ‘Main Street’ feel between LiveDeal.com’s buyers and volume sellers,” said Rajesh Navar, founder and CEO of LiveDeal.com. “By opening a Premium Store, sellers have the opportunity to attach a ‘name and face’ to their listings by communicating who they are, where they are located and how they can be contacted. The end result is stronger buyer/seller relationships and, in turn, stronger sales.”

The benefit of being a LiveDeal.com Premium Store owner includes the capability of building a branded store on LiveDeal.com that features a company logo or store photo, as well as useful contact information such as a company phone number, business hours and a map. Additionally, all merchandise posted by LiveDeal Premium Stores receives the added visibility of being viewed above LiveDeal’s Free Listings as a Premium Listing.

Sellers can try Premium Stores at no charge for the first 30 days. In addition to Premium Stores, LiveDeal will continue to offer Basic Stores at no charge.

LiveDeal’s New Premium Listings

With the addition of LiveDeal.com’s new Premium Listings category, LiveDeal.com sellers now have three ways to post an items for sale: 1) as a Featured Listing, which is priced at $9.95 a month and appears as the first group of items listed for sale in every category, 2) as a Premium Listing, which is priced on a bid-for-placement model starting at $1.00 ($0.10 in the merchandise category), or 3) as a Free Listing.

LiveDeal’s Premium Listings provides sellers with an economical new way to promote items above LiveDeal’s Free Listings -- resulting in more buyers viewing a listing (as much as 20x the traffic). With LiveDeal's Premium Listings, just a few cents can put a seller’s listings right where the buyers are, up top and in front.

 

 
About LiveDeal

LiveDeal is one of the leaders in the free local online classifieds market with more than $3 billion worth of goods listed for sale, in every city and zip code across the U.S. Buyers and sellers come together through the vast LiveDeal.com marketplace, which is ideal for trading items you want to see or try before you buy, such as pets, automobiles, furniture, appliances, real estate and more. LiveDeal also partners with online and offline media to quickly and cost effectively power their classifieds via its dynamic LiveDeal classifieds platform. LiveDeal was founded in 2003 by Rajesh Navar, an original member of eBay’s engineering team, with executives from other pioneering Internet companies. As part of its global expansion, LiveDeal recently launched LiveDeal Canada (livedeal.ca) in partnership with Torstar Corporation. For more information about LiveDeal, see www.livedeal.com

 

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