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"Pinterest is getting more serious about shopping: The social network announced Thursday that it will now send users notifications when products they've pinned go on sale.\nPinterest will send sale alerts through aggregated emails, so as to prevent users from getting spammed.\nSee also: 10 Innovative Uses of Pinterest\nThe alerts should work for most product pins. As of a few months ago, Pinterest started automatically loading price data for many major retailers' products, and is now taking advantage of price adjustment data. A Pinterest spokesperson was unable to say how many retailers had signed on to the program, but did confirm that Pinterest is not taking a cut of any sales.\n\n\n\n\nThe feature isn't entirely original. Social startup Lyst introduced the same alert system for Pinterest a little more than a year ago. Chris Morton, CEO and co-founder of Lyst, tells Mashable Lyst still offers a better alert system: \"Our sales alerts let you know when the same product is available from hundreds of different stores. So if you pin a navy blue PS1 from Saks, for example, we'll let you know when that item goes on sale from any store that will ship that product to you,\" he says. While Lyst may not feel threatened, the new feature does pose a serious threat to browser-based sale alert trackers like Hukkster and PoachIt. Like Pinterest, they ask shoppers to pin/hukk/poach, products, and then e-mail users when those items go on sale. Now that Pinterest offers sales alerts, consumers may find less of an incentive to pin and hukk or poach every product they like on the web.\nNote: This story was updated with comment from Lyst.\nImage: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images and Pinterest"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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