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Lawrence, KS (PRWEB) December 15, 2008 -- CoolProducts.com, the vast shopping site launched in November, has responded to the economic crisis with a retooled home page. Shoppers are now invited to visit CoolProducts.com to see Featured Gifts Under $100.

Because gift shopping should be fun and fruitful, CoolProducts.com was created to help the smart shopper access great gift ideas from all over the web in one easy place. By representing 1000s of the webs top online merchants, shopper's now can access a better product recommendation tool for both price and relevance. For this current frugal environment items are organized by price from lowest to highest.

Founder Tony Schmidt notes, "We are a new twist for the hard-to-buy-for. Essentially we have organized the 'coolest' products from 1000s of your favorite catalogs to make shopping very easy. These are clever and useful gift ideas from the biggest, most popular web stores. We are right for you if you want to cut to the chase and spend as little time as possible finding the well-thought-out gift. By aggregating so many merchants into clear categories we facilitate a rich serendipitous experience for busy people. Visitors can easily find the 'coolest' gift to match to their budget and their recipient's style. How cool is that?"

CoolProducts.com. This site is great when you’re running short on ideas. They even have a category "Entertainment Tastes" with a subcategory of "Romance." In this subcategory are gift ideas such as a steak dinner for two, Elvis and Priscilla Barbie dolls, and a "The Sheik" movie poster. (By the way, for those of you who are wondering, I would not like the Elvis and Priscilla dolls.)

When Tony Schmidt started Lawrence-based www.coolproducts.com, he set the bar high.

"Our products are supposed to be 'wow,' 'best of class' or at least very strong," Schmidt says. "We're not interested in adequate or textbook stuff. We want the coolest stuff.

"And then we ask our community to tell us: Is this product extremely cool or just mediocre? Give us a thumbs down, and it's outta here."

It's called coolproducts.com.

Tony Schmidt is the mastermind behind the Lawrence-based Web site.

He and his 15 employees have spent the last two years developing it.

The Web site claims to have the coolest, most unique gifts from 1,100 merchants across the country.

And the site allows users to control what's coolest.

"We don't want adequate products, we want very strong, exceptional, wow, best-of-class products," Schmidt said.

KANSAS CITY, KS and LAWRENCE, KS, Nov 10, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- A group of social media entrepreneurs have publicly launched a new people driven online store: http://coolproducts.com.

To celebrate the launch and to highlight this surprising problem solver for the holidays, CoolProducts.com announces a Member Contest running through 12/5 with holiday oriented gift prizes. In addition, there's a Blogger Contest with great products for the wired-in crowd like the popular Cruzin Cooler thru 11/25.

The site was created for shoppers to express their individuality and gain access to great gift ideas from 1000s of national merchants in one easy place. Cool Products 8000 product inventory was generated by a social network of participants. Product finders have been working all year to suggest products from merchants all over the web.

Founder Tony Schmidt discusses his newly-launched, community-based Web site, CoolProducts.com.

A group of social media entrepreneurs have publicly launched a new user-driven online store, CoolProducts.com, a division of Heart of America E-Commerce, 1617 St. Andrews Drive.

The site was created for shoppers to express their individuality and gain access to thousands of national merchants. The store will celebrate its launch with a blogger contest with technology-oriented prizes through Nov. 25, and a member contest with holiday-oriented gift prizes through Dec. 5.

A few days ago I was out shopping at the mall and I noticed that the store I was in already had most if it’s Christmas inventory (Christmas trees, wreaths, and other decorations) on display for sale. It may only be October, but in the eyes of the retail market it’s already the Christmas season.

Buying gifts for people seems to be getting harder and harder each year. I think part of it is because I’m getting older each year and so I can’t get my friends Ninja Turtles or Lego anymore. In fact, just coming up with new and interesting prizes for my Affiliate Marketing Challenges each month takes me literally hours to do.

This is where CoolProducts.com comes in. CoolProducts.com is a website which, as their name suggests, offers cool products for sale. Since Christmas is just over the horizon, they thought it’d be a good time to market their site and let people know about it for their upcoming holiday shopping.

This is a site review about CoolProducts.com which has just recently launched. It is a really great website mainly due to it’s completely original idea (which I have not seen anywhere online) and also the fact that you can make money from being involved.

On CoolProducts.com you can get involved by recommending cool products you have seen elsewhere online. Then other members of the site will vote the product up or down. If the product gets a good rating then they will begin to offer it for sale on CoolProducts.com and whenever that product is sold through the website the person who recommended it will get a commission on the sale. The more cool products you recommend then the more money you can make.

There is already some pretty cool stuff on the website. Like a "Cruisin Cooler" which is a scooter/esky (Australian word for cooler). They have a pretty cool "Chilled Shot Machine" which is a little random and expensive but could be fun if you were a true blue alcoholic. They even have "Box4Blocks" which is something I had as a kid for storing lego. Each level of storage has smaller and smalled holes leading down to the bottom to separate your lego by size. The smaller lego filters to the bottom and the larger lego stays on top.