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Holiday season is just round the corner and online retailers are getting in full swing with deals and discount offers. iPod from Apple is one of the most popular MP3 player brand bought and sold online, its considered as perfect gift (especially among young consumers). The fact of the matter that how popular iPod shopping is can be established by making a simple search with keyword like ?Best iPod Deals?, Google returns 44+ million results, Yahoo returns 90+ million result & Bing returns 5+ million results. If you combine all these figures it reaches around 140 million search results, which by all means an insane figure. With this said, competition is also huge among online retailers. There are millions of web sites selling iPods and competing online with other web sites.

Some of the trusted online places to buy iPod are, Apple?s web site itself, Buy.com, NewEgg, Best Buy, Tiger Direct, MacMall. However finding a good deal can be tactical as its difficult to keep track of all these web sites, hence a smart way to find good deals is to find some deals & coupons data aggregator sites, who aggregates data from all the above mentioned retailers and present it all at one place, so that you can see who is offering best deals among all the top retailers at one place rather than visiting each site manually one by one and getting lost.

This year holiday shopping is going to be no different than the previous years, as study shows that iPod is among the top 5 products, consumers are interested in buying online, and iPod deal war has once again intensified as every retailer wants to have bigger pie of this shopping bonanza. Apple has recently introduced factory refurbished line of iPods. These iPods are pre-owned and refurbished by Apple itself and sold by Apple with its warranty. These refurbished iPods are obviously sold cheaply as compared to new ones. Buying a refurbished iPod can be as cheap as $50+ compared to new ones, with this if you can get free shipping or free engraving, which can be a good deal.

The new iPods are the one with Video Camera & FM Radio with big display size, sold for approximately $150. The other new iPods are iPod Touch which has hard disk of 32 GB, making it idle for playing games, surfing web, sending emails and much more, you can buy one of these for under $250

Record a song with RiffWorks and enter to win a Dean Markley Guitar, an iPod touch with FourTrack and more.

Los Altos, CA – Sonoma Wire Works announces the Holiday RiffRumble, the 14th song contest for RiffWorks recording software users. Contestants worldwide will compete for $4120 in prizes, including a Dean Markley Acoustic Guitar, an iPod touch with FourTrack by Sonoma Wire Works, an Ultrasound AG30 Acoustic Guitar Amplifier, 12 sets of Dean Markley VintageBronze Guitar Strings, RiffWorks InstantDrummer Sessions by Discrete Drums, and Recording Magazines. Any RiffCast enabled edition of RiffWorks, including RiffWorks T4 free recording software may be used to record solo entries and online collaborations with a holiday or winter theme. The power pop band, Rooney, will choose the Grand Prize winner. Entries will be accepted for two weeks: November 24 – December 7, 2008. Votes accepted November 24 – December 14. No purchase necessary and no entry fee. Contest & Prize Details: http://www.riffworld.com/riffrumble/rr14

Three Categories to Win

* Grand Prize (Rooney’s Choice): The musician who enters the song chosen by Rooney band members wins a Dean Markley DM-J360 E Acoustic Guitar. This flat-top jumbo acoustic recalls the Gibson J-160 that John Lennon used with the Beatles. It features book-matched mahogany back and sides, a solid mahogany neck, a solid book-matched spruce top, a slim 15 fret ebony fret-board, gold-plated tuners with simulated tortoise knobs, ivroid binding, and a gold-plated stereo input jack for a neck position installed custom pick-up with both volume and tone controls as part of the body (valued at $3250). Includes hard shell case. 5 RiffWorks InstantDrummer Sessions by Discrete Drums ($49.95) and Recording Magazines ($19.95). Total Value: $3320

* 2nd Prize (Contestants’ Choice): The musician who enters the song that receives the most votes from the contestants wins an Apple iPod touch 8GB (value $229) plus the FourTrack iPhone/iPod touch app by Sonoma Wire Works ($9.99). An Ultrasound AG30 Acoustic Guitar Amplifier – the best selling compact acoustic amp on the market for the last 5 years is built to Dean Markley’s specs for Ultrasound Amps. At 30 watts and just 20 pounds, the AG-30 is perfect for recording and coffee shop gigs. Feedback control, EQ shape control, effects loop, direct out, line out, headphone out, and a 5-year warranty fill out the features (MSRP $300). 5 RiffWorks InstantDrummer Sessions by Discrete Drums ($49.95). Recording Magazines ($19.95). Total Value: $600

* 3rd Prize (Most Public Votes): The musician who enters the song that receives the most shouts from the public wins 12 sets of Dean Markley VintageBronze Guitar Strings in a wooden gift box (MSRP $135). Five RiffWorks InstantDrummer Sessions by Discrete Drums ($49.95). Recording Magazines ($19.95). Total Value: $200

About RiffWorks
RiffWorks easy-to-use guitar recording software includes automatic track creation, loop recording, guitar-oriented effects, InstantDrummer, professionally recorded drum tracks, online music collaboration, and song posting. RiffWorld.com rolls it all into a vibrant online community. RiffWorks Standard Pricing: $129. RiffWorks T4 free download available: http://www.sonomawireworks.com/T4

About RiffRumble
RiffRumble song contests are hosted by Sonoma Wire Works on RiffWorld.com and sponsored by the hottest music industry companies. Sponsors for past RiffRumbles have included Line 6, IK Multimedia, Taylor Guitars, Seymour Duncan, Schecter Guitars, Recording Magazine, and more. Holiday RiffRumble: http://www.riffworld.com/riffrumble/rr14

Black Angus is giving away $10 gift cards if you order $50 in gift cards. Paypal will give you back $20 when you spend $50 worth of merchandise at Walmart. Gymboree has 25% off and free shipping right now. Anyone else?