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StuffBuff debuts embeddable online stores

March 10, 2010

StuffBuff, which first premiered at TechCrunch50 2009, announced in a press release the launch of its “Tag Sales” – embeddable online stores – as an additional offering to its viral auction service. The sales, with comprehensive tools for sharing, discussing and selling products across a number of Web platforms, give sellers a fixed-price sales alternative to the recently-launched LiveHaggle auction widget.

“StuffBuff’s team is striving to make our service a complete e-commerce solution for the growing number of people who have been leaving services like eBay and searching for alternative services to auction or sell their products,” said founder and CEO Michael Langer. “While our LiveHaggle widget offers a terrific embeddable auction solution, our new Tag Sales will empower our members to create online stores wherever they find their largest audiences, whether on their personal Web sites or blogs or on social media platforms like Facebook and MySpace."

Tag Sales, which work much like LiveHaggle auctions, can be embedded across a number of platforms to bring the sale item to a targeted audience, whether a college student selling a used textbook to classmates on Facebook or a musician selling merchandise on their MySpace profile. Thanks to StuffBuff’s technology, all sales and auctions can take place directly through the social platform, without redirecting traffic to StuffBuff for registration or bidding.

The company says its service is the first application developed using APE (AJAX Push Engine), a French platform that allows for real-time applications that function at ten times the speed of Twitter’s real-time technology. Additionally, StuffBuff’s Blink! Dutch-Style Auction was built using PayPal “X” technology.