Our press release!

In today’s economy, auto repair shops are struggling to get new customers to their shops and retain their existing customers. Additionally, with the high cost of advertising, they are finding it difficult to promote their shops and share any special deals or discounts they want to offer to their customers. To solve this problem and to help auto repair shops reach new customers, Prundo.com (http://www.prundo.com) has launched its auto repair shop portal, which allows all auto repair shops to share their shop details and coupons, special offers/deals with their targeted customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

“Auto repair shops spend over $800 per month to promote their shops through printed media, online advertising and other direct mail options. However, all these channels have a big disadvantage of not being able to reach the target customers efficiently and cost-effectively. Prundo.com fills in this gap by providing an online portal, which allows the shops to display their car repair prices, coupons, special offers and deals, whenever the customer is looking for such deals,” said Alka Gupta, CEO of Prundo.com. “As Prundo.com is exclusively targeting auto repair customers, the auto repair shops can reach their targeted audience cost effectively”.

Auto repair shops can register themselves at ( http://www.prundo.com/station_register.php ) and input their auto repair shops details. After registering, auto repair shops can access following great features:

1.    Display Service Station Details: Each shop gets its own unique page with details such as address, phone number, directions, affiliation, working hours, services provided, prices and special offers.

2.    Add/ delete/modify services and offers 24 x 7: Shops can display and change the services and prices directly through their account 24 x7. No need for spending money on reprinting their promotion material.

3.    Easily create coupons from multiple templates: Prundo.com offers free coupon templates which can be easily customized for each auto repair shop.

4.    Free submission to popular online classified websites: Prundo.com submits auto shop details for free to various classified ads for greater visibility of the auto repair shops.

5.    Display Coupons: Shops can display between two to unlimited number of coupons on the website.

Prundo is offering all of the above great features through three subscription models (http://www.prundo.com/station_register.php). They are also offering special promotion of one free month with monthly membership and two free months with annual membership!

About Prundo: Prundo.com , located in Irvine California, is based on a patent pending concept, to make auto repairs easier and cheaper for both, their customers and the auto repair shops. Customers can view and download money saving coupons for brake, tire, oil change and over 30 other routine maintenance and auto repairs needs. Auto repair shops can reach their targeted customers easily and cost effectively through their own auto repair shop portal.

In today’s economy every one wants to save money and why not.

Coupons and Mail-in-Rebates offer great bargains to save money…. lots of money! On an average $300/year!

Let us first discuss the differences between mail in rebate and coupons and find out which one is a better deal.

Mail-in rebates deals are generally issued by companies when they either want to dispose off their existing stock, make room for the new product, meet their annul sales target ,kill the competition, offer discount without reducing the sales price, or to get their customers data – name, address etc.

Coupons are offered by companies when they launch a new product and want consumers to try it, provide savings to the consumers without reducing the retail price, to match the competitor prices and/or to combine their advertising channel with money saving coupons

As you can see that the reasons for companies to provide these great bargains to their consumers vary significantly.

Now let us talk about the advantages and disadvantages of each category

Mail-in-rebates: Usually these are of higher values and range anywhere from $5 to as high as $400 for big electronic items. They require you to mail in the rebate paperwork along with a copy/original sales receipt, original/copy of the UPC from the box and the rebate forms.

Advantages:

1. Usually you can save much more with a mail-in-rebate as they are of higher value than coupons
2. With few companies offering on-line mail in rebates submissions (staples, rite-aid, Symantec etc.), submitting a rebate is either automatic or very easy.
3. You do not have to hassle with the shop/store to see if they will accept the coupon/rebate. You deal directly with the manufacturer or its designee.

Disadvantages:

1. As you need to include the original UPC, you may not be able to return the product if you are not satisfied.
2. Over 60% of the time, people do not submit their mail-in-rebates. People procrastinate in the submission process.
3. The mail in rebate can get lost in the mail.
4. You may miss few documents/paperwork required for the submission which can then lead to the rejection of your rebate
5. Once you receive the check, you may not deposit it!

Overall mail-in –rebates are good if they offer bigger savings, if they can be submitted on-line and if you are a disciplined person and can send the rebate out in time

Coupons: These are of low values ranging from few cents to $5. You can use them by simply clipping them and taking them to the cashier when buying your stuff.

Advantages:

1. Very easy to use. No mailing of the rebates, no deposit of checks etc.
2. You can talk to the cashier and they may allow you to use them even if they are already expired
3. You do not have to search for them. You can easily find them online ( like our website) or in Sunday’s newspaper.
4. Some stores will honor other store coupons.
5. Few stores also double the coupon values. Although this practice is in a downtrend.
6. You can get online coupon codes from various sites.
7. Few website offers printable coupons (like ours!)

Disadvantages:

1. Need to remember to take them along with you when you go out to buy your stuff
2. Lower value than mail-in-rebates

In summary, choose mail in rebates for bigger savings and remember to submit the rebate with all required papers. Use Coupons, printable coupons, coupon codes for low value daily savings. Remember to clip them and store them for future use.

For downloading free coupons for auto repairs like oil change, brake, tires, transmission and many more check out our website www.prundo.com