Posted March 26, 2015 by Rosina Ayling and filed under Money
These 12 tips will help you save money whilst shopping online.
1. Make a shopping list
Always try to consolidate your purchases. Make a shopping list then use a search engine that lets you search your entire list for the lowest total price for the entire list. Amazon offers the ability to consolidate purchases at their site, but often the purchases come from different sellers so you actually don’t save on shipping charges after all.
2. Shopping list search engine
A better solution is a shopping list search engine such as onestopshoppinglist.com which finds the lowest seller of all the items in your shopping list (including of course Amazon), but also obscure sellers which often have really low prices.
3. Money back
Also use sites that will offer you money back in the future such as Ebates.com. This site lets you sign up for free and save between 1% and 25% on loads and loads of online merchants. (The average savings is 2%-4%)
4. Coupon sites
Check out coupon sites to see if there are coupon codes available for the website you are trying to use. Unfortunately, many of the “offers” on these sites are just ads for various sales and specials and just lead you to a website rather than actually provide a code to save you money.
5. Frequent flyer
Try searching for the product you are looking for on comparison sites such as Froogle (froogle.google.com) and Shopping.com, but beware that they do not check every site and will often show you results that do not actually lead to a product, and do not account for shipping charges, which can vary a lot between websites.
If you don’t mind the extra work and separate bills, it is often a good idea to get the credit cards of various stores, sports teams, etc. Of course, you can cancel if you don’t want the extra bills and you can’t use or don’t want whatever long-term saving it may offer.
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