Lesson plan
NexTag
Nextag was an independent price comparison service website for products, travel, and education. It started as a website where buyers and sellers could negotiate prices for computers and electronics products. From 2000, the business model focused on comparison shopping. NexTag also owned Hamburg, Germany-based Guenstiger.de. It provided functionality for tracking the historical prices of a product across various sellers. Nextag's headquarters were in Redwood Shores, California. In June 2007, Providence Equity Partners purchased a two-thirds majority of the company for $830 million, valuing NexTag at approximately $1.2 billion. Los Angeles-based private equity firm Regent purchased the company in March 2015. The NexTag.com website went offline on or about December 28, 2018, with no formal public closure announcement. Industry sources reported in January 2019 that the company had gone out of business. Merchant reports from 2016 to 2018 indicated declining traffic quality, poor conversion rates, suspected bot or fraudulent clicks, and deteriorating customer support in the period leading up to the shutdown. In August 2022, the domain name nextagshop.com went online and started to focus on wholesale and retail sales of general merchandise, including both B2B and B2C business; this site is not operated by the original NexTag company. As of July 2026, nextagshop.com is also offline.
Article summary
Nextag was an independent price comparison service website for products, travel, and education. It started as a website where buyers and sellers could negotiate prices for computers and electronics products. From 2000, the business model focused on comparison shopping. NexTag also owned Hamburg, Germany-based Guenstiger.de. It provided functionality for tracking the historical prices of a product across various sellers. Nextag's headquarters were in Redwood Shores, California. In June 2007, Providence Equity Partners purchased a two-thirds majority of the company for $830 million, valuing NexTag at approximately $1.2 billion. Los Angeles-based private equity firm Regent purchased the company in March 2015. The NexTag.com website went offline on or about December 28, 2018, with no formal public closure announcement. Industry sources reported in January 2019 that the company had gone out of business. Merchant reports from 2016 to 2018 indicated declining traffic quality, poor conversion rates, suspected bot or fraudulent clicks, and deteriorating customer support in the period leading up to the shutdown. In August 2022, the domain name nextagshop.com went online and started to focus on wholesale and retail sales of general merchandise, including both B2B and B2C business; this site is not operated by the original NexTag company. As of July 2026, nextagshop.com is also offline.
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Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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