Every another months there's a new, pricey tech toy that everyone wants. Eventhough if you can't resist the urge to buy, it is always possible most of the time to get a deal through googling, through few deal sites and simple techniques. Here are some simple steps and online resources that might help you in hunting for the best deal out to satisfy your gadget lust..
Watch or search for the item you are planning to buy in these sites :
www.dealnews.com (Best site out there. Do a search for older deals that are not in homepage)
www.deals2buy.com (The classic. Still gets you what you wanted)
www.edealinfo.com (Lots of non gadget deals and sometimes really get you good cheap stuff)
www.slickdeals.net (A forum where you get tons of info on gadget and non gadget deals both online and brick & mortar stores)
Trick 1: Search for coupons before you make the purchase. A simple google search will help you get one from a blog, forums or coupon sites like retailmenot, dealcoupons etc
Trick 2: For Apple, Dell, HP and other major tech products check if your employer has got EPP (Employee purchase program) with the vendor. It saves you a lot of money most of the time. I got my new macbook aluminium for 150 bucks less than the list. Dell EPP saves you almost 7% on top of ongoing promotions
Trick 3: For you ipod/iphone accessories, memory cards, USB memory sticks, camera and laptop accessories search in www.meritline.com. They sell cheap quality stuff. There are other sites like www.supermediastore.com, www.pcmicrostore.com which sells similar stuff. Sometimes ebay gets you the best accessories deal.
Trick 4: Leverage your branded credit card rewards. Amazon.com from Chase is a excellent card which allows you to exchange reward points for amazon gift coupons. First 90 days earns you 6 points for every dollar spent on amazon.com. Further joining bonus is 30$. So if you buy a kindle 2 and accessories you get a 25$ amazon coupon in the first month which you can use to get e-books for your kindle. They do run periodic promotions which saves you 10-25$ per month. Amex Blue cash gives cashback which works on the similar line.
Trick 5: Register for coupons with major online retailers. www.newegg.com is one major retailer who restricts coupon for it's newsletter subscribers. One more major advantage is that you know about the deal sooner. www.buy.com does it sometimes. Both newegg and buy.com offers great deals on gadgets and gears
Trick 6: Don't forget to search in www.amazon.com before you make the purchase for stuff like car video, projectors, mobile phones, watches, digital cameras etc. There is always a deal in Amazon. Use Amazon search engines like http://www.jungle-search.com/US/
Trick 7: For professional equipments (electrical, electronics, educational etc) www.tequipment.net and www.newark.com offers the best products for lowest prices.
Trick 8: Use social networks, blogs like gizmodo.com, lifehacker.com for lightning deals
Trick 9: Pray for the gadget you desire to appear in www.woot.com and www.yugster.com
Happy gadget shopping!!
Awesome compilation...
Posted by: Guru | April 02, 2009 at 08:41 AM