It’s official: we just got word that NexTag sold a 2/3 stake to Providence Equity Partners, a private equity firm for $830MM.

This values the company at $1.2 billion.

Om Malik had a good writeup four days ago:

Nextag is said to be doing about $200 million in revenues, with a lucrative mortgage and other lead generation business being the rocket that is driving the company. Internet giants for example – have taken out its peers – MySimon, PriceGrabber, Shopping.com and Shopzilla.

CONGRATULATIONS  to NexTag!  Lots of hard work went into building this business, and we’re proud at ChannelAdvisor to be a partner.

Written by Scott Hurff. scott.hurff (at) channeladvisor (dot) com

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Pricegrabber keeps introducing new focused micro-sites, in particular now there’s a site focused on auto parts.

Here’s the link: autoparts.pricegrabber.com

If you are already on Pricegrabber with auto parts, what you will want to do is contact Pricegrabber and get your the existing categories you send re-mapped to their new auto parts taxonomy.

Otherwise, if you are a new customer, just sign up and your categories will be mapped to their new category structure. I’m told they are already starting to get good traction here, so this is a pretty exciting expansion.

Remember that if you’re not on Pricegrabber already, you can get some free money from them just for signing up through ChannelAdvisor. Check it out.

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Heads up if you sell in the ‘Home & Garden’ or ‘Clothes, Shoes & Accessories’ categories on eBay.co.uk.

This weekend (June 9th & 10th) eBay is running a half-price listing promotion (plus free Gallery update) for these two categories only.

That’s great news for sellers like The Contemporary Home or Schuh!

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It’s never easy to let go of an old friend. That’s how I feel about the “click here for larger image” feature on most eCommerce sites (here’s a good example of a product that I bought a few days ago) which I probably click on about 50-75% of the time. We all hate pop-ups but tolerate it when it comes to getting a close-up of the product.

Being constantly in the market for kids’ shoes, I recently landed at endless.com via slickdeals.net for a pair of Stride Rite toddler shoes and found a great solution to this nuisance (I have been a fan of this site since it launched a few months ago).

The default product view shows you the standard colors and options (sizes in this case) to the right of the main image. But once you hover over the image the options disappear to make room for a zoomed image (click here to try it out).

Cool usability improvement — hope this catches on quickly.

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1 - You find yourself wishing that McCormick & Schmick’s served breakfast. (Wait a minute, they don’t, do they??)

2 - You’ve started a list of your favorite Fairmont martinis by #, not by name. The Vesper is #1. I only have 475 more to try.

3 - You’ve already sorted your booth tchotchke’s into 3 piles: trashcan, Craiglist, and keepers.

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