Online shopping site DealCloset recently announced the availability of its Auction Search and Alerting service. The new service, which consolidates auction shopping across Overstock Auctions and other well known auction sites, notifies users via email when a product is selling below the user's set threshold and how much time is left to make a purchasing decision before the auction expires. It also provides more thorough searching capabilities and displays larger pictures than those returned by most auction site's default search.

"I've been frustrated with the time investment required to purchase items on auction sites and the inability to search multiple auction sites simultaneously, and I've heard DealCloset shoppers articulate this same frustration," said Sandra Carrico, DealCloset's founder and chief developer.

"What I've wanted for a long time is a way to specify a search and have a program watch the search results until an item becomes available at my target price, then to be notified by email that it's ready to buy at my price and within a certain timeframe," Carrico said. "I couldn't find a service like this anywhere, so I decided to develop it myself, and from the response to DealCloset's beta there's obviously a need for such a service on a large scale."

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