A Penny Saved

How many different groups do you belong to? Do you know all the benefits that are afforded you because of your membership? How about all the benefits and discounts that are available through your credit cards? Your Union? Your bank? Your work?

Let me introduce DealMine.com. The site is still very beta, but they are adding new discounts, groups, and other benefits daily. There are two search boxes on the main page, one for searching for discounts, miles, rewards, etc… and another for doing a price comparison on items.

The discount search works really well. A simple search for “Dell” comes up 10 different benefits and rewards for shopping with dell. A search on the price comparison brings up a shopping.com price comparison.

The site itself still needs some visual fine-tuning, and a few bugs worked out. Overall, it could be a very handy tool if you belong to several groups and have a hard time keeping track of all the potential benefits fo membership.

**Note: This was a solicited review. I was NOT paid or reimbursed in any way for the review and it’s content is an honest review of the site. The following is the email that I received in it’s entirety, soliciting the review.

Hi Shane,

I was reading your Penny Saved blog today and wanted to drop a note to introduce you to DealMine.com. When you have a chance to check out DealMine.com, I would love to hear what you think about what we are doing and if you think it may be interesting for your readers. We are still in beta but it is coming along.

If you have not heard about us, DealMine.com is the first shopping site to aggregate member discounts and rewards to compare alongside prices at the best stores online. We are all members of so many programs, professionally and personally, it is hard to know where to start a search for the best deal and we are trying to simplify the process of shopping online. You will find our next generation comparison shopping site combines deals from a wide range of programs including associations (AAA & AARP), clubs, unions, credit cards, rewards programs and more. We help consumers discover deals they didnt even know they had available like 10% off at Target.com with AAA or $30 at Bluefly with American Express cards…

The site features two types of searches. The first is into the directory to compare discounts or rewards like this one for car rentals currently featuring over 100 deals: http://www.dealmine.com/deal-directory/Travel-discounts/Car-Rentals/49

The other search on the site is actual comparison shopping where prices at various stores are matched up to affinity/membership discounts and benefits. See below for an example of a “Compare Prices” search on jeans: http://www.dealmine.com/compare-prices.php?s=jeans

The site currently features discounts and rewards from 29 member programs and is growing quickly - next week we will add Ebates, Little Grad.

Please let me know if I can get you any additional information and if you think it might be of interest for your readership. Thanks in advance for your consideration.

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