You endured our green and orange bargainjack color palette for far far too long.   You’ve heard us talk about a BargainJack redesign for…almost a year. We’ll, this past weekend, we finally did it!  Now Jack is sporting a whole new look and LOTS of new functionality, catching Jack up with BargainJill.  The Much-Awaited BargainJack Relaunch offers all kinds of eye candy, deal-finding features and a triple threat of deal goodness with three linked deal sites.

The coolest thing about this redesign is that it makes it super easy to navigate in between our three sites, BargainJack, BargainJill and One Day Buys.  What in world is One Day Buys? – you ask.  OneDayBuys.com is our brand new site which was formerly the One Day Deals tab on BargainJack.  OneDayBuys.com has many of the cool new features that have been added to BargainJack and BargainJill, and continues to be your one stop shop for keeping an eye on over 100 One Day Deal sites as well as major retailers who offer a Deal of the Day.  We’ve added categories to browse through to make your deal search easier.

Now let’s walk through some of the new features on BargainJack.  Our big focus was around encouraging more interaction and more of a sense of community, so we added the ability for our readers to rate deals.  You don’t even have to be logged in.   You can also share a deal with your friends via email or with your favorite social sites by hovering over the Share Deal link next to each deal.

We’ve also added an easier way to comment on deals.  Now instead of having to jump over to the forum, you can comment on a deal directly on the product page for that deal.  Then other users can see your comments when they visit that product page, AND the comment is automatically added to the forum, also.  You DO need to be registered to comment on deals and if you were registered with the old bargainjack forum, we WILL need you to sign up again in the new forum.  But hey, it’s free.  If you were already signed up for newsletters, those should continue to arrive without any interuption, so you DONT need to change anything there.

Back at the home page, we show the daily commentary which you’re already familiar with, we’ve added a spot for Jack’s Pick for the previous day in case you forgot to check in.  And another new feature is that you can click Jack’s Picks to see ALL of the commentaries that Jack has written in one place and you have the ability to comment on the daily writeup.  Next on the homepage, you’ll see the latest 25 deals that we’ve posted.  If you want to see more than 25 deals and also want to use our snazzy new filtering tools, you can either click the “See More” link above the deals list or you can click the Latest Deals tab in the top nav bar.  Now that you’re at the Latest Deals page, you can easily slice and dice your results by category. Expand the CATEGORIES link and just select the categories that YOU care about.  If you know exactly what you’re looking for, you can click directly on the link for the category you want, and it will filter your results for you and give you SUBCATEGORY choices to use to filter your deals even more. Let’s say that I’m looking for a new computer and a hard drive.  I can click the “None” link below the categories so that NO categories are selected, and then i can go back and click the checkboxes for Computers and for Hard Drives.  And then click Refresh List.

Under Advanced FIlters, you can specify whether you’d like expired deals or deals with rebates to be hidden. Also, you can hide “Storewide Sales and Coupons” which means that you will only see PRODUCT-SPECIFIC deals, and not any broad sales or coupons which require you to go out and pick the product yourself.

If you have a favorite store and want to see the latest deals for them, you can click the Shop by Merchant tab and choose a Merchant.  On the individual merchant’s page, we first list any general sales and coupons we have for that merchant, and then list all of the specific product deals that we have for that merchant.  This is handy if you already know that you are going to buy something from Buy.com, for instance, and you want to make sure that you’re not missing out on any coupon codes or other hot items while you’re there.

Want to submit your own deal to BargainJack or BargainJill? You can click “Submit a Deal” from the left nav and then walk through the DEAL adding wizard.  We moderate all of the deals just to make sure that we squash all of the viagra spammers and crazy people like that, but it’s another great way for you to contribute to this deals community.

We really hope that you’re as excited about the redesign as we are.  Shoot us an email or add your thoughts to our forum, or add comments to this blog post.  We want to hear what you think!

Thanks as always for all of the support you’ve given us.  You’ve allowed us to evolve to three sites that we’re really proud to share.  To help us promote our launch, please tell a few of your friends about us!

Have an excellent week! Bye!

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