A NEW website claiming to save you dollars at the online checkout is attempting to break into the Australian market.

Tjoos.com.au, the seccond stage of an Australian-based US-driven start-up, is claiming to save you dollars online.

The site, already a success in in the states, has this month decided to break into the Australian coupon marketplace.

Tjoos founders, Bart Jellema and Kim Chen, were apparently frustrated with the online shopping experience they were receiving in Australia.

The two then decided they would extend their already successful Tjoos.com website to Australians.

When speaking with co-founder Bart Jelemma earlier this year, he told Tech Wired that the US market was where it was at.

“It’s very big in the US, not so big in Australia,” Jelemma told Tech Wired.

Three months on and he’s taken a different view; he’s decided to test the waters in Australia.

The Australian version of the website currently hosts 1600 coupons including 50 exclusive to Tjoos.

The Tjoos team are also working on a price comparison engine they hope to launch later this year.

“Ever since I started on Tjoos, I’ve been amazed at the lack of quality and objectivity in price comparison sites,” Bart said

“…we are planning to do the same thing as we did with coupons, create an advertisement free, high quality, simple to use site for price comparison.”

The Tjoos start-up began when Bart and Kim lived in the Netherlands in Bart’s parents attic for 3 months.

The two then moved to Australia where they bootstraped their start-up.