thats right....you head it (hopefully not for the first time)...a lot of blogs out there can help you save money
SlickDeals
Techdeals
SteepAndCheap
...only to name a few.
these blogs are collectively added on to by users updating the website with the most current deals, coupons, and offers ranging from free scoops at Ben & Jerry's to a wireless mouse deal after a coupon and mail-in-rebate at RadioShack. I'm a big fan of these websites and consult them on a daily basis whether i'm in the market for a product or not. However, if you're not somebody like me who has a list of websites in their browser that they check on a daily basis, then you should definitily use a website like Techdeals if you're in the market for something like a computer monitor, external hard drive, or digital camera. Techdeals has listings of where you can find the cheapest deals on products including incentives like Google Checkout, store percentage discounts, and mail-in rebates.
The other websites that I linked to above, such as Woot.com, and SteepAndCheap.com, both have daily deals where the product changes every day. Each product is the only one sold on the website at the time and the quantity is unknown so it may run out at any time.
With social and collaborative websites such as techdeals and slickdeals, users get the most for their money when buying online. This is an aspect of social networking that we have really not touched upon in class. Though we have discussed the important of users explaining and reviewing products they buy...this give users a central location to which they can post good deals they find when browsing everyday websites.
NOW.....using social networks and blogs, we now have the capability to find products, get reviews, find the best deals, learn how to use them, learn how to fix them, and finally, learn how to sell them as used when you're done! We have come full circle.
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Wow, these seem like some really useful tools. And I think that this just goes to show the power of blogs, as I would never have heard of these websites unless I had read your blog. Maybe there's something to this after all.
this was news to me as well, i cant wait to check these sites..
Thanks a lot for these tools. They are really great and could save you a lot of time and money. It is always better to get information about a product from other users than getting the info from the company or the producer.
You know... I would be a big fans of the sites that you described above because when you type in "good deald on X" into google.. most of the time the website that pop up sell the products above market value... Ebay is unreliable... I just bought something at a really nice price from an ebay seller with 100% positive feedback... The next day I get a notification from ebay telling me that that seller lost their trading privilages due to private reasons and if I get charged for the item, the I need to file an ebay investigation.... I mean I dont want to deal with that, and the feed back that was soooo great really meant nothing in this case. I am really getting sketched out by buying things online these days..
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