Top Most Popular Deal Websites do the bargain hunting for you by scouring the Web for
discounted items -- saving you both time and money. Our favorite is dealnews.com,
which has a team of deal hunters who keep their eyes on a million
products at more than 2,000 reputable online retailers and update the
site with new deals at least 200 times a day. Plus, you can sign up for
e-mail or RSS alerts for products or stores you're interested in and get
gift ideas from the site.
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GottaDeal.com is another great source for deals. You may find some here that you won't find at dealnews (we did recently). Slickdeals.net,
a user-driven deal-sharing site, features a few deals a day on its home
page, but its forums are where you'll hundreds of deals posted daily.
And Offers.com
features deals from more than 4,000 companies and stores, updated daily
and organized into 190 categories (including clothing, electronics,
toys and travel). It also points you to local deals in more than 75
cities.
You can find lots of bargains at deal-of-the-day sites, such as
Woot.com. But it would take a lot of time to check each one of these
sites, which list only one deal a day. DODTracker.com
does the hard work for you. It lists hundreds of items from deal-a-day
sites and daily deal offers from retailers, such as Amazon.com. It shows
how long the deal has been posted, time when sale ends, amount of
discount (if available) and whether the item still is in stock. When you
click on any of the tabs at the top of the homepage (All, Computers
& Electronics, etc.), you'll get a page that lets you sort by
retailer, product, price, discount and more.
Find the lowest price
If you’re trying to find the lowest price on a particular product,
price-comparison sites make it easy. When you search for an item on
these sites, they produce lists of the retailers offering the product,
prices, shipping costs, and seller information and ratings. It's tough
to beat
Amazon.com
for price comparisons. For most of the items we recently searched for,
Amazon turned up the longest lists of results and the lowest prices.
However, other price-comparison sites worth visiting include
PriceGrabber.com and
Google Product Search, which has a local shopping option to help you find products at stores near you.
You also can download the
FreePriceAlerts.com
tool, which will notify you instantly if a product you’re viewing
online is cheaper at another site. The tool works on 115 sites, such as
Walmart, Best Buy and Amazon (
see the complete list),
and more are being added every week, says founder Bob Wilkins. While
you shop online as you normally would, the tool searches thousands of
other retail sites and will display an alert in the top left-hand corner
of the page you’re viewing that tells you whether you’ve found the
lowest price or if another retailer is offering the same product for
less (with a link to that retailer’s site). You don’t have to register
at FreePriceAlerts.com to download the tool, but if you do register, you
can set target prices for items you want and receive e-mail alerts when
prices fall to the levels you want.
Shop with cyber-coupons
Before you make any purchase online, search for coupon codes that can
help you score a discount at the checkout (basically a sequence of
numbers and letters you enter during the payment process). Some
retailers advertise coupon codes on their sites when they're available.
However, some coupon codes can be found only at coupon sites that work
with retailers to create exclusive online coupons.
CouponCabin.com
has more than 100,000 active coupons and deals. In addition to
developing exclusive coupon codes with retailers, its staff searches
merchant sites, forums, blogs, consumer e-mails and even the Sunday
Paper for coupons, then updates the site’s listing three times a day. It
shows when a coupon expires and when it was last tested so that you’ll
know whether it still works. CouponCabin.com also offers a downloadable
toolbar that displays coupons and deals if you visit one of its 3,700
participating merchants online.
Coupons.com
has thousands of coupon codes that you can search for by store or
category. You can sign up to receive weekly e-mails featuring coupon
codes and online discounts.
Retailmenot.com
has coupon codes for 130,000 stores, a downloadable tool (browser
add-on) that notifies you when coupons are available for a site you’re
viewing, and a weekly e-mail newsletter that features the coupon codes
that the site’s users consider to be the best.
Gift-card deals
Never pay full price for a gift card again.
CardCash and
Gift Card Granny
sell merchants' gift cards for less than face value. They'll also buy
gift cards you don't want (for 80% to 90% of the card's value).
Buying a discounted gift card to use for your own shopping is a good
way to score additional discounts. For example, buy a $100 Gap gift card
for $90 (instant $10 savings), use it to shop online and use a coupon
code for additional savings.
Free-shipping deals
High shipping costs can be a big drawback to shopping online.
FreeShipping.org offers free-shipping coupons for more than 4,000 merchants, including Amazon.com, Target and eBay.
Deal apps
At the store, try an application that uses your phone's camera to
recognize a bar code and does a quick product search to help you compare
prices at other stores. If you have an iPhone or Android, you can
download the
RedLaser or
ShopSavvy apps for free.
The free
Coupon Sherpa app lets you download in-store coupons for retailers, restaurants and services .
Parting tips
On a final note, if you're shopping online be sure to look for
privacy and security seals on retailers' sites, know the return and
exchange policies, and check shipping deadlines to ensure your gifts
arrive on time.
And to make sure you're getting the best bargain online, look for the
item at the best price from a merchant with free shipping and a coupon
to lower the cost even further -- the trifecta of bargain shopping.
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