(BSNS WIRE) NextCard Internet Visa and BizRate.com Introduce Powerful Cr
NextCard Internet Visa and BizRate.com Introduce Powerful Credit Card for
Online Shoppers
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1999--
Online Shoppers to Benefit From Agreement
Between Leading Internet Visa and Premier
Online Consumer Resource
In a continuing effort to provide eCommerce services for the
Internet consumer, NextCard (Nasdaq:NXCD), creator of the First True
Internet Visa, and BizRate.com (www.bizrate.com), the leading
e-business ratings site, today announced an exclusive Internet
marketing agreement featuring the BizRate.com NextCard Visa.
"Combining the buying power of the BizRate.com community with the
value-added eCommerce services of the NextCard creates a unique
opportunity for an innovative and distinctive product," said Dan
Springer, chief marketing officer at NextCard.
"This agreement with BizRate.com is yet another example of
NextCard's strategic initiative to target attractive Web audiences and
provide them industry leading functionality."
"BizRate.com's mission is to arm online consumers with the tools
they need to make the best buying decisions on the Internet," said
Farhad Mohit, president and CEO of BizRate.com.
"This partnership with NextCard provides consumers with a more
integrated product designed specifically for all their online shopping
needs. With NextCard's guarantee for safe shopping and robust online
services, consumers can buy with confidence on the Web."
BizRate.com members can enjoy shopping rebates, up to 25 percent,
when buying through BizRate.com's comprehensive shopping Web site
featuring 1,900 customer-rated online stores. "Vendors are willing to
pay BizRate.com an affiliate fee for referring customers to their
site," said Mohit.
"As an unbiased consumer resource, we don't keep that fee.
Instead, we pass the savings on to our members as a rebate on every
purchase." BizRate NextCard Visa holders can have their rebates
automatically posted to the credit card account monthly.
Cardholders will also receive exclusive NextCard privileges,
including valuable online shopping services, the NextCard
Concierge(SM) online companion and a 100% Safe Online Shopping
Guarantee. The card will also feature custom product offers online,
fixed rates as low as 9.9% APR, automated balance-transfers and
24-hour interactive online service and support.
Consumers may apply for the card directly at www.bizrate.com.
NextCard, Inc.
NextCard, Inc. (http://www.nextcard.com), creator of The First
True Internet Visa in 1997, is considered the industry's leading
issuer of consumer credit on the Internet. The company has continued
to innovate with its complete GoShopping!(SM) Web site, NextCard
Concierge, personalized PictureCard(SM) design and exceptional online
customer service.
NextCard publishes the NextCard eCommerce Index(SM), the premier
source of online transaction activity and was named a "HOT 100
Company" by Upside magazine and one of "The Standard 100" most
important and influential companies in the Internet economy by The
Industry Standard magazine.
About BizRate.com
Founded in 1996, BizRate.com (www.bizrate.com) is an unbiased,
independent rating guide built on the experience of millions of actual
online buyers. The BizRate.com site combines valuable consumer
information with a powerful set of shopping tools that help people
find the store or product they want, as well as offer recommendations
based on user-specified criteria.
BizRate.com is the only company trusted by more than 1,900
e-businesses to collect this direct consumer feedback and
transactional information at the point-of-purchase. The online store
performance ratings, derived from this data, denote the only
statistically rigorous way of differentiating retailers on "quality of
service" metrics.
BizRate.com's information will appear on Consumer Reports Online
and in Consumer Reports magazine and is currently available through
top Internet portals such as America Online, Microsoft Network, Go
Network, Snap and Go2Net.
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CONTACT: NextCard
Michelle DesMarais, 415/836-9792
michelle.desmarais@nextcard.com
or
BizRate.com
Tran Vu, 310/305-3506 ext. 149
tran@bizrate.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS E-COMMERCE INTERNET
PRODUCT ADVERTISING/MARKETING
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