Another one of those days I start thinking again and it struck me… I’m always finding deals and hardly EVER pay retail for anything and I wanted to hook YOU up the same.
For instance, before I purchase anything that can be bought over the Internet, I usually do some searching around first to find the best deal by the most reputable company. My first stop is usually over to fatwallet to see if there’s any brick & mortar type stores I can order and pickup (in order to avoid shipping). If the online deal is a good one on fatwallet, it’s a no-brainer to purchase the item online.
Sometimes, fatwallet doesn’t have what I’m looking for so then I’ll head over to slick deals. Every once in a while, a deal for something I’m looking for (or not) will be on there that makes it very hard to refuse.
Then there’s woot. They usually have one item heavily discounted per day (that’s the down side). On some days, once or twice a month, they’ll have what’s called a “woot off”. Woot off’s mean that they’ll have deals on random things every 5 minutes in a span of 24 hours. Real deals are to be had.
If those three places are lacking in the deal I’m looking for, I then head over to Craigslist. The Mecca of an online market place. It’s a free online garage sale where real deals are to be had by people in your city. There’s no bidding… just emailing and phone conversations to negotiate the price you’re willing to pay. Big deals with very little effort. Early bird catches the worm as things can go really fast.
Once, I’ve used up all of my options I head to eBay. I’m sure you have the history on this online market place. Since I’m a NOW NOW NOW person, I usually only fool with Buy It Nows on there since I hate getting outbid at the last second on something.
For you electronically inclined people, eBay is your friend. I guess I’ll let you in on a little secret I’ve used a time or two. Let’s say you want the biggest and baddest car stereo Best Buy, Circuit City, or Electronics-R-Us you can find. Get the model number and buy it off of eBay for almost half the price if something goes wrong with it within the relative future, you have a local warranty on it by just buying the big boy from the local store and returning the defective unit in it’s place. I know the morale Nazi’s are going to get on me for that one but you’re basically sending it back to the manufacturer to fix their product through a local distributor. The local distributor doesn’t lose anything so I don’t see it as that big of an issue.
Besides, if the markup wasn’t 100% on electronics, you’d be buying straight from the local distributor. Hope this helps you too. Patience is the key.
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For instance, before I purchase anything that can be bought over the Internet, I usually do some searching around first to find the best deal by the most reputable company. My first stop is usually over to fatwallet to see if there’s any brick & mortar type stores I can order and pickup (in order to avoid shipping). If the online deal is a good one on fatwallet, it’s a no-brainer to purchase the item online.
Sometimes, fatwallet doesn’t have what I’m looking for so then I’ll head over to slick deals. Every once in a while, a deal for something I’m looking for (or not) will be on there that makes it very hard to refuse.
Then there’s woot. They usually have one item heavily discounted per day (that’s the down side). On some days, once or twice a month, they’ll have what’s called a “woot off”. Woot off’s mean that they’ll have deals on random things every 5 minutes in a span of 24 hours. Real deals are to be had.
If those three places are lacking in the deal I’m looking for, I then head over to Craigslist. The Mecca of an online market place. It’s a free online garage sale where real deals are to be had by people in your city. There’s no bidding… just emailing and phone conversations to negotiate the price you’re willing to pay. Big deals with very little effort. Early bird catches the worm as things can go really fast.
Once, I’ve used up all of my options I head to eBay. I’m sure you have the history on this online market place. Since I’m a NOW NOW NOW person, I usually only fool with Buy It Nows on there since I hate getting outbid at the last second on something.
For you electronically inclined people, eBay is your friend. I guess I’ll let you in on a little secret I’ve used a time or two. Let’s say you want the biggest and baddest car stereo Best Buy, Circuit City, or Electronics-R-Us you can find. Get the model number and buy it off of eBay for almost half the price if something goes wrong with it within the relative future, you have a local warranty on it by just buying the big boy from the local store and returning the defective unit in it’s place. I know the morale Nazi’s are going to get on me for that one but you’re basically sending it back to the manufacturer to fix their product through a local distributor. The local distributor doesn’t lose anything so I don’t see it as that big of an issue.
Besides, if the markup wasn’t 100% on electronics, you’d be buying straight from the local distributor. Hope this helps you too. Patience is the key.
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