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Author's product rating:   

Presentation/navigation of site	Excellent
Reliablility/speed of site	Good
Quality of content	Good
Range of products/services offered	Excellent
Competitiveness of charges	Excellent

Advantages:	Fantastic website which the users own
Disadvantages:	Low value of shares

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

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Now here's a good idea, a webiste which gives you shares for using the links to all your favourite shops.

The advantages are:
Free shares
You can get a large number of free shares through signing up to products and services (many of which you'd use anyway).

Share back shopping
You can earn shares through shopping online (eg 4% at John Lewis, 3.5% at Debenhams). Given most of us do it anyway, we may as well get something for free!

Fluctuating share price
The current fluctuating share price means that there are some good opporunities to make money through using the current offers there (they're likely to reduce as the share price increases). There are some good financial prospects for the company, and they're profit making!

Ease of use
The sites are ordered by type, eg finance, food & drink etc. This means that you can easily find what you want to find, as you'd expect from a directory. It's also really easy to check your share value (it's always displayed prominently), and the number of shares you have. A really very well designed site.

The disadvantages are:
Shares slow in showing
The shares do take some time in showing on your account. This is largely the fault of the counterparties, though, as I've noticed some shares are credited quickly and some (eg Marbles) are very slow.

Share price is low
The current share price is low, but the benefits of a low share price is that it doesn't take much for it to change by a big percentage. Which other share can claim an increase of over 100% over the past month! Not a bad performance...let's just hope they can maintain it. You need to accumulate £50 worth of shares before they will make a payment out to you (That's about 50,000 shares). I know that this sounds a lot, but you can accumulate this relatively quickly if you use the site to do all your online shopping.

My advice: Get in early, get in quick.