LiveDeal reports 1.4 million unique June visitors, $5 billion in goods listed

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Record numbers of customers continue to turn to LiveDeal.com (www.livedeal.com), one of the nation’s leading free local online classifieds sites, as the preferred way to find buyers and sellers in their local area for a variety of merchandise and services. June marked a milestone month for LiveDeal, with more than 1.4 million unique visitors going to the LiveDeal site (according to comScore Media Metrix data). LiveDeal.com’s traffic grew by 34 percent last month, greatly surpassing the growth of some of the leading online sites in the Directories/Resources>Classifieds category including Craigslist.org (+11 percent), apartments.com (+8 percent), AutoTrader (-2 percent) and Yahoo! Classifieds (-16 percent) (source: comScore May 06, June 06).

LiveDeal is one of the leaders in the free local online classifieds market with more than $5 billion worth of goods listed for sale, in every city and zip code across the U.S. Buyers and sellers come together through the vast LiveDeal.com marketplace, which is ideal for trading items you want to see or try before you buy, such as automobiles, furniture, appliances, real estate and more. LiveDeal is also the perfect place for sellers seeking to place pets in loving homes and for buyers to find the pet of their dreams. LiveDeal partners with online and offline media to quickly and cost effectively power their classifieds via its dynamic LiveDeal classifieds platform. LiveDeal was founded in 2003 by Rajesh Navar, an original member of eBay’s engineering team, with executives from other pioneering Internet companies. As part of its global expansion, LiveDeal recently launched LiveDeal Canada (livedeal.ca) in partnership with Torstar Corporation.

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