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About Roots Direct: A leader in  fashion, Roots Direct has built a fine reputation since its establishment back in 1973. Originally a manufacturer of footwear, Roots has fast become one of Canada’s leading lifestyle brand. In fact, the Roots brand is now famous across the globe for much more than just its shoes. Today, Roots specializes in a wide range of quality leather goods, clothing and accessories.

The big pitch: Roots Direct offers more then just clothing apparel. With Roots Home you can buy the best in leather furniture, linens, towels and accessories. With Roots Direct you can make over the entire house.

Starting from humble beginnings as a tiny store in Toronto selling the Roots Negative Heel Shoe, Roots has grown from strength to strength. There are now more than 125 Roots stores in Canada and the United States along with 20 locations in Asia. In addition, Roots has a state of the art factory and design center in Toronto and also receives millions of hits a day on its online shopping site.

Ask anyone in the industry and they will all tell you that Roots is not only a major player in the fashion world but also an innovator. The Roots style is based on quality, creativity and integrity. It’s reflected in its ever-expanding product line which now includes Roots Genuine Leather (shoes, jackets, bags and luggage); Roots Athletics (sportswear); a full range of Roots Kids and Roots Baby (clothing).

So if you are looking to update your wardrobe, Roots Direct is the best place to start. Not only will you look and feel the best in top of the line attire, you wont have to break the budget in the process. Roots Direct offers a full range of up to date casual fashions at affordable prices. By shopping with Roots Direct you really are getting great value for money.

Product Trends Rating: Offering the best men’s and women’s wear, Roots Direct is become a great resource for casual fashion shoppers.By shopping online at Roots Direct you can order just about anything you need for your wardrobe. Hoodies, sweats, t-shirts, bottoms, pants, fragrances, watches and accessories are all just a mouse click away. What’s more, you can add to your home furnishings at Roots Direct with bedroom and living room furniture all offered. We dig it -  Three and a half stars

Product Trends Rating: Offering the best men’s and
women’s wear, Roots Direct is become a great resource for casual
fashion shoppers.By shopping online at Roots Direct you can order just
about anything you need for your wardrobe. Hoodies, sweats, t-shirts,
bottoms, pants, fragrances, watches and accessories are all just a
mouse click away. What’s more, you can add to your home furnishings at
Roots Direct with bedroom and living room furniture all offered. We dig
it - Three and a half stars

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About Safety Zone: SafetyZone.com is without doubt today’s leading online supplier of home safe products. Ask any safety conscious shopper and they will tell you that Safety Zone.com is the ideal website to find cater your needs. Safety Zone receives a ton of traffic everyday from online customers across the globe inquiring about their various state of art products. Whatever area of the home, Safety Zone has it.

The big pitch: Safety Zone stocks just about every home safety product you can imagine. Whether it is a bath mat, shower handle, home alarm, smoke detector or kill switch that you are looking for, then SafetyZone.com is for you.

Sadly, nowadays it seems the news headlines are all too frequently dominated by some form of home tragedy. Yes, accidents are always going to happen but you can rule out the chances of them happening to you and your family by taking the correct precautions. While most people consider their homes a safe haven it’s only after close inspection does one realize the potential for disaster. A faulty heater can mean a house fire, swimming pools can lead to drowning, unsecured household chemicals can cause poisoning and so forth. While a modern home has a plethora of safety hazards thanks to Safety Zone your house no longer has to fear.

To assist you in your shopping efficiency, Safe Zone divides its safety products into different categories including: clearance zone, fire safety, locks and safes, indoor home, allergen fighters, kitchen safety, bathroom safety, lighting, electronics, electrical safety, outdoor safety, pet safety, auto safety, personal care, health and wellness, and child safety.

Apart from its vast array of stock, Safe Zone also provides practical home safety tips as well as the top ten safety products for your home. Screen Protectors, window guards, driveway nets, cycle exerciser, fire escape ladders, fire escape ladders and toddler coddlers are just some of the great home safe items currently on sale.

Safety Zone offers the best in home safety products from items that are self evidently useful to those other things you just wouldn’t think of.

Product Trends rating: If you are looking for a top of line home safety product that you can trust, then Safety Zone.com is a website you just have to visit. Three and a half stars.

About Spoylt: Any celebrity will tell you that, when it comes to intimate apparel, Spoylt carries the most beautiful, sensual lingerie on the market. The difference is that Spoylt lingerie is designed by women for women, so not only are the designs utterly feminine and seductive, they are comfortable and figure-enhancing. Indeed, the founder and creative-director of Spoylt, Barbara Brudenell-Bruce, makes it her business to consult with real women about what they look for in lingerie, and the resounding message was sensuality, functionality, femininity and fit. And that is what drives each and every design.

The big pitch: Designed in London, Spoylt lingerie are exclusive, hand crafted, haute couture creations that will make every woman feel sexy, confident and special.

The designers at Spoylt have spoken to ordinary women at length about that they what from the lingerie they wear because they know that beauty is nothing without day-to-day practicality and wearability. So whether it is a whisper-fine camisole and French knickers, or the stunningly feminine silk bra set, every item that Spoylt puts on the market is comfortable and a pleasure to wear.

In fact, Spoylt knows that there is so much more to lingerie than the look of it. Instead the mere wearing of lingerie must be a sensual experience. It must be a complete experience – every sensation and aspect must enhance, comfort and celebrate the body of the woman wearing it. And so, with that philosophy Spoylt designers take pains over every detail from the quality of the fabric, texture and stitching. Indeed their popularity has made them a must-have brand for celebrities, and they are regularly worn by the cast of Desperate Housewives, not to mention Eva Longoria, Carmen Electra, Madonna, Courtney Cox, Debra Messing, and Mariah Carey.

Browse the Spoylt website online and you will get a taste of the beautiful and diverse range of lingerie available. Whether you are looking for something pretty and feminine, or sexy and strong, there is always something for every woman. In fact, the range is so stunning that you will have difficulty choosing. Will you go for a light, flirty babydoll nighty, or heartstopping suspenders and bra? What accessories will you opt for? If you visit the Spoylt website you can easily join their customer membership, and buy your lingerie online. Alternatively the website will direct you to one of the ten exclusive stockists around the world.

Product Trends rating: Spoylt is the ultimate in haute couture lingerie that celebrates everything beautiful about women and their bodies. Designed to feel wonderful and sexy on, every item is a statement about sensuality and the freedom of women to rejoice in their femininity. Five stars, and then some!

About StarStruck/Proteam: StarStruck is one of the biggest catalog and internet retailers of licensed Major League and Minor League goods and merchandise. Not only do Star Struck / ProTeams produce their own catalogs, they are also responsible for the official catalog for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Baltimore Orioles and the New York Mets. Star Struck/ProTeam stocks an enormous range of sports-related goods, including (amongst other things) caps, T-shirts and jerseys, as well as paraphernalia and collectibles. Customers can browse their impressive selection over the internet or in their attractive print catalogues.

The big pitch: Not only does Star Struck/Pro Teams stock merchandise for all the major and minor leagues of baseball, football, basketball and hockey in the United States, their range also extends to soccer, auto racing and college goods.

If you are a sports fan that likes to show your loyalty by wearing your team’s gear, then Star Struck/Pro Team is the perfect place for you to shop! If you are looking for a gift for a sports enthusiast, then look no further because you are almost guaranteed to find the ideal present at Star Struck/Pro Team. And Star Struck/Pro Team makes gift-giving even more hassle-free, since you can easily browse their goods and pay online, as well as arrange for direct shipping to the gift recipient at the same time.

Star Struck/Pro Team also carries an impressive international range of sports goods, as well as patriotic paraphernalia such as USA Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines items. If you want to add that very personal touch to your item, you can arrange for your cap or jersey to  your name or your favorite player’s name.

Star Struck/ Pro Team has exceedingly high production standards and their major league sporting merchandise is made from only the best and most durable fabrics and materials. As such, you are assured of getting a strongly-stitched, long-wearing item to take you through season after season of your favorite sport.

Product Trends Rating: Star Struck/ Pro Team is THE website for sports fans. Whether you are a die-hard or a dilettante, Star Struck/ Pro Team offers an absolutely massive range of items spanning both American as well as international teams. Because of their focus on excellent production techniques, their goods are without doubt the best quality merchandise of their kind, and with easy pay-online options, shopping is a pleasure. Star Struck/Pro Team rates 4.5 stars.

It’s played in coffee houses from Tehran to Timbuktu, and it has been since the days of Alexander the Great. The game is backgammon, and it hasn’t changed much over the years. That is, it hadn’t changed much, until the advent of the internet. Now, this ancient pastime that combines luck with skill, talent with instinct, has a new home, and literally millions of new devotees.

Internet backgammon allows you to find a litany of strangers (and friends) to play against with just the click of a mouse button, and on sites like PartyGammon.com (a subsidiary of the world renowned PartyPoker.net), you can even gamble on your game.

Of course, you don’t have to gamble – it’s easy and free to play using the PartyGammon backgammon school, in which you get to use tutorials and no-wager games to your heart’s content, but when you’re ready for the big action of hardcore betting, you’re perfectly able to do that using their proprietary software.

There are always thousands of players on the system, and the PartyGammon.com folks offer a wide variety of different backgammon games, such as HyperGammon (in which each player only has three pieces), and NackGammon, where each player has four pieces at the back instead of two. The system also offers the option of speeding up standard games by setting them to 45 second turns, 30 second turns, or even 15 second turns.

To make things even more interesting, you can choose to join one of the regular tournaments, in which you can win big cash prizes, or even the annual one million dollar backgammon championship, with a first price that’ll see you quitting your job and never working another one again. If you enjoy backgammon (or even if you’re new to the game), try it out at PartyGammon.com – you can learn for free, take advantage of their tutorials, meet new friends who play at the same level, and climb the ladder to a million dollars – what more could you ask?

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About the Company: The Sony Brand has always been synonymous with the entertainment scene since as long as even the most season music fan can remember. The leaders in just about all things electrical, it is no surprise that Sony CONNECT™ has become the website of choice for music punters when it comes to downloading tunes.

The Big Pitch: Featuring one of the most extensive music libraries online, if you’ve ever heard it, chances are Sony CONNECT™ will stock it.

While Sony CONNECT™ might pride itself on its easy to use nature, and extensive catalogue of songs, it is more then just a musical jukebox.

How many times has this happened to you? You’ve got into the car, switched on the radio and a catchy little ditty strikes you like a bolt of lightning. You’re mesmerized. You know it sounds familiar but you just can’t picture the group in your head. The song finishes and the DJ says it’s the new track from Radiohead. You can’t believe it. You need to hear it again. You know you wont make it through the rest of the day without hearing it again. Now thanks to Sony Connect, you can access any song you like, anytime. What’s more, you don’t even have to leave the house to get your music “fix”. Sony CONNECT™ is that music store you have always dreamed about. It features everything you need and more. Music fans, Sony Connect allows you to listen to the hits, or explore new music - whatever you decide. If you hear something you want to keep, you’re always just one click away from owning it.

Sony Connect also boasts such impressive features as Connect Player as well as Radio Connect.
Sony’s Connect Player is a state of the application that allows music lovers with a practical and simple to tool to organize your music. The Connect Player also allows you to transfer your songs to your digital music player as well as the means to create your own compilation CDs.

Meanwhile Radio Connect provides you with the radio station to die for. Radio Connect features an eclectic array of music programmed by people who share your musical tastes and passions. What’s more, you won’t hear a single commercial on Sony’s Radio Connect. And best of all, it’s free.

The Product Trends Rating: Sony has always been at the forefront of home entertainment technology and is now considered the pioneers of the digital revolution. With Sony CONNECT™, Sony now further confirms its reputation as the number one home entertainment provider. 4 stars.

About the company: The A&E Television Networks have exclusive DVD collections from Modern Marvels to World War II, and far beyond. The three channels that make up the networks, A&E, History, and Biography, have a host of educational and fascinating programs available, all of which is very affordable.

The big pitch: Quality A&E programming at prices far less than you expect.

The A&E Television Networks have regular sales and an incredible range of gifts for the holidays. There are a couple of navigation options, including “shop by show”, which leads you to a list of the shows for all three channels on the network and allows you to go through them in alphabetical order. There is also a menu on the left on the alphabetized page that lists several of the more popular buys.

You can also shop by subject, looking at everything from sci-fi and fantasy (like Thunderbirds, Stingray, and Supercar) to Science and Tech (like Medicine, Space & Exploration, and Weapons) to Ancient Civilizations (like The Mayans, Egypt, and Ancient Greece). Each of these categories opens up into a page full of great choices for both education and entertainment. There is literally something for everyone’s tastes.

You can also shop tabs for special offers, best sellers, and their new releases. A&E Television Networks makes it easy to find exactly what you are looking for on their easy-to-use site. There is also a tab on the side of the screen that leads into toys and games. Mostly educational and all fun, these games are a great gift idea. And if you don’t know what to give, the site offers gift certificates as well.

If you would rather take your time and browse on the go, request a catalog with their easy fill-in form, and you can be shopping the site in the park or the doctor’s office in just a few days. There is no hassle, and no pressure to buy.

With the ease of use, variety of products, and many ways to surf, this site is a number one in our book. There is something for every taste, all you have to do is take a look.

The Product Trends rating: The site is easy to use, and has a great list of products to entertain a wide range of people. There are plenty of search options and even a mailing list where you can sign up for special offers. The site is secure and pleasant to navigate. Five stars!
— Reviewed by Dionne Obeso

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About the company: "For those interested in online gambling, there are literally hundreds of websites devoted to sports betting available. Betting online is a fast, fun and safe way to enjoy gambling but wading through all of the options can be time consuming. SportsInteraction.com makes the whole process a no-brainer. With a whole suite of betting options available, you’ll want to get started with its easy sign-up process right away."

The big pitch: Fast, Easy and So many options.

SportsInteraction.com is your full service online sportsbook. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week SportsInteraction puts all of the latest betting information at your finger tips. Access your account, transfer funds and place bets at your convenience.

Add to that a 24-hour customer service line and you’ve got one of the easiest sportsbooks to deal with period. Bet on the world’s leading sporting events with up to the minute odds and a variety of different betting betting options. Point spreads, teasers, combination bets are among the few. Its your choice to decide how you want to play.

Inevitably any business is going to have the occasional dissatisfied customer. In our search for customer feedback on SportsInteraction, we noted a few unsatisfied customers. Of the few that we found, the complaint all seemed to center around payout issues. The common factors in these situations was that deposits were made, but the users wanted immediate refunds for a variety of reasons. It seemed in a few cases that no consideration was given for deposit verifications. SportsInteraction resolved the situations quickly, and many are still using the website for all of their online betting. So then how do you get paid? Fill out an online form specifying your payout amount and the form of payment and your payout is mailed to you the next business day.

SportsInteraction has more then just sports betting available. It is also a full-featured casino-style gaming site. With a variety of game types to choose from, everyone will find something that excites them. There are even poker tournaments available for those interested. Opening an account was quick and fairly easy. Just a form to fill out online and as soon as money is deposited, you are ready to begin placing your bets. Deposits are accepted via Credit Cards or E-check for United States residents. You can also mail in a check or money order (Just make sure to allow mailing and processing time). With a minimum deposit of only $20, it is really easy to review what the site has to offer without making a big commitment. So from Sports betting to Casino style gaming, SportsInteraction.com is your one-stop gaming site.

The Product Trends rating: All in all when it comes to online betting, there are so many choices and many of them are too similar to give them a second glance. Licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, SportsInteraction stands out from the pack by providing a solid online interface and a streamlined betting system that gives you an unparalleled sportsbook experience. Four and a half stars.
–Reviewed by Cygnus Dean

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About the company: “You work. You play. You work some more. Why not go for that all-over tan… wherever you are. And while you’re at it how about doing that through the most comfortable swimsuits in the World? That’s why we created COOLTAN tan-through Sportswear. Whether you’re at the beach, boating, on vacation, or just relaxing in your yard, COOLTAN tan through sportswear lets you get a safe, natural tan right through your suit..”

The big pitch: It’s safe. It’s easy. And it’s 100% cool & comfortable!

COOLTAN offers men’s and women’s swimsuits, shorts, shirts and accessories made from Microsol and MicrosolV fabrics. These special fabrics allow UV radiation to pass through, and at the same time wick moisture away from your body. Clothing made from Microsol fabrics are cool and allow you to tan through the garments, providing UV protection similar to SPF 6-10. If you want an even, lineless, all-over tan, wear COOLTAN garments and use an SPF 6-10 sunscreen on exposed skin.

COOLTAN garments come in flattering styles and beautiful prints and colors. They are the only machine washable tan-through garments available and can be partially dried in a dryer. They dry quickly when hung up damp or wet.

If you are looking for tan-through swimwear, this is the place to go. Perfect for vacations, all their products pack well, can be either machine or hand washed, and look great when simply hung to dry.

The Product Trends rating: COOLTAN offers an attractive line of tan-through clothing at very reasonable prices. They do not have products for large or tall people; their women’s sizes only run to 15-16, and women’s tall only goes to 5’8”. Men’s XXL is for a 38-39” waist. Other companies do offer tan-through clothing in larger sizes. It’s also important to note that the American Cancer Society recommends everyone use an SPF 15 or higher sunscreen. COOLTAN clothing provides protection equivalent to SPF 6-10. Four stars.
— Reviewed by Penny Watkins

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About the company: "Obtaining and comparing insurance quotes can be grueling. First, you have to call each insurance company you’re interested in, give them all of your personal information, and record the quotes they give you. Then, you have to sit down and compare each quote to find your best offer. Finally, you have to call your chosen company again in order to apply for insurance coverage. However, shopping for insurance doesn’t have to be this time-consuming. With Kanetix.ca, Canadians can get insurance quotes from up to 33 different companies by filling out just one personal information form. With so many quotes from just one inquiry, you can save yourself the hassle of devoting an entire day to shopping for insurance, and you can be sure that you’re getting XXXthe best deal possible."

The big pitch: Get Multiple Quotes. Compare Quotes Side-By-Side. Shop Anytime.

Kanetix.ca provides their customers with quotes for several different types of insurance, including auto, critical illness, term life, motorcycle, property, and travel. Additionally, the site also offers valuable information for people who are unsure what insurance coverage they need. This means that before you shop for insurance, you can use their tools to determine exactly what you need to shop for.

If you’re shopping for auto insurance, Kanetix provides calculators that help you determine exactly how much coverage you need. If you’re shopping for critical illness, term life, motorcycle, property, or travel insurance, they provide guides that explain the different types of coverage available to you.

It costs nothing to use Kanetix’s services. You will not be charged anything, and you are under no obligation to purchase any of the quoted insurance plans you are provided with. When you’ve decided what type of insurance coverage you need, you simply enter your personal information into their quote form. The site is secure, so you don’t have to worry about your personal information being intercepted by third-parties. When you’ve finished, you’ll receive your quotes from Kanetix’s affiliate insurance companies.

After you’ve received your quotes, you can compare them side-by-side. If you find one that you wish to purchase, you simply do one of three things: call the number listed, submit a request for information form, or apply online. The method of purchasing insurance varies depending on the capabilities of the insurance company you choose.

There are a lot of online companies that promise to deliver insurance quotes from several companies. However, most often these companies simply direct you to the website of one "preferred" company. This is not how Kanetix operates. They give you quotes from each of their affiliate insurance companies. A list of these insurance companies is available on their website.

The product trends rating: Kanetix.ca is a valuable, time-saving tool for anyone in Canada who is shopping for an insurance quote. By providing both insurance tools and quotes to shoppers, their services are not matched by any other Canadian-based website. Five stars.

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