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BillShrink - new features added to the gas application

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Posted Wed, 04/15/2009 - 08:58 by Saravana Perumal

BillShrink | Free personalized advice for saving you money

We pushed out a new release to production yesterday. The gas application has a bunch of new features.

  • GasBuddy price lookup is also now integrated into the applicaiton. This is in addition to the OPIS price lookup we had since launch.
    BillShrink - Now has GasBuddy and OPIS gas price lookups.
  • The results can now be filtered by the last reported time at a given station.
    BillShrink - Now filter gas results by the age of the reported price

Stay tuned, more exciting new features are coming.

Comments

not quite soo

by Saravana Perumal - 04/17/2009 - 23:39

hi dylan, thanks for your feedback. I think you are missing some critical points. Let me help straighten a few things.

  • People when it comes to money don't spend because they have to spend, especially in these economic times. They think twice before spending. So if we tell the users that they switch to another plan blindly, they will not do soo. They need to be convinced that such a switch is necessary in order to save money. If you would have taken the time to go through BillShrink, you would have appreciated the uniqueness of BillShrink. When we analyze the wireless plans against the usage pattern of a given user, we return the recommendations backed with the reasons for doing so. Take for example the recommendation given below by BillShrink
    BillShrink wireless plan details, it explains why the given plan is better suited for the user.
  • Like some of the other sites, we do stop with suggesting the best wireless plan for a user one time, we monitor the changes in wireless plans regularly and keep the users update to date of changes in their top recommendations. Below is an example of BillShrink alert monitoring service. BillShrink - Alert Monitoring for Wireless,Credit Cards and Gas. Wireless plans change quite often and new credit cards are issued very often. Users need not have to keep track of all these changes by themselves, some of them may not be relevant to user. BillShrink digests all these information and provides only those information that impacts the user. And best of all it is completely FREE.
  • BillShrink doesnot insist users to provide their username and password, users can even give an approximate input about their usage as shown below
    BillShrink - Wireless manual usage input, with this information itself BillShrink provides a near approximate wireless plan recommendation for the user. If the user is convinced with the quality of the recommendation. They can choose try the import your bill mode which would provide the most accurate wireless plan recommendation for the user.
  • We are striving convey the value of our services to users, so if you have better ideas of conveying the value of our services to users you are welcome to suggest them.

alternative...

by Dylan (not verified) - 04/16/2009 - 10:38

Saravana, nice blog, I like the layout and your posts are very informative. I did, however, want to provide an alternative review of Billshrink. The primary problem with Billshrink is not its latest fuel application (although there are other online tools that accomplish roughly the same thing with less hassle) but rather the issue lies with the fundamentals of the company itself. BillShrink makes its money from commissions earned and paid out by cell phone companies for having switched consumers onto other wireless plans. How are we supposed to trust a company that works for the cell providers rather than for the customer? Additionally, BillShrink requires the login and password information for the customer's online wireless account which is a flagrant violation of many of the cell providers' terms of use, particularly Verizon.

In contrast, the online cell bill reduction company that I (admittedly) work for, Validas, offers a far more comprehensive and effective way to save through our website at http://www.fixmycellbill.com. Our modifications to your plan are uniquely structured around your individual usage patterns; Validas works for you rather than the cell companies. Additionally, Validas tells you exactly how much money our changes to your plan would save you before you are committed to paying a cent. Compare your projected savings to the cost of the Validas service, and then only pay if Validas can save you more than our fees cost. Our cell bill audits start at five bucks, and the average consumer saves $450 annually with our bill modifications. Check out Validas on Good Morning America at http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6887412&page=1.

Dylan

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