For the current lowest prices at 11,000 online stores go online and look up
Invisible-Hand. It is a browser extension that works in the background of your
browser and tracks prices and sends you a pop-up notification so you can see if an
item you are viewing online is cheaper elsewhere online. Invisible-Hand reportedly
does not collect personal information on you.
For automatic coupon search forget Googling coupon codes and use the browser
extension called Honey which finds and automatically enters coupon codes for you
at checkout. At checkout Honey will ask you if you would like to search all available
coupon codes they have from participating online stores, so click “yes” and Honey
will run through all available codes in just seconds. The app collects data on you but
reportedly does not sell the data it collects.
Online web sites like Raise and CardCash and others sell gift cards below face
value. This may be worth checking out.
Go to an online store and try getting friendly over the phone with customer
service or with their online chat Instant Messaging (IM) service if they have an
online instant chat service and use it to ask for a lower price. Say how much you like
the product but that it is a little pricey and if there are any special promotions or
discounts that will make it more affordable for you. A phone call to customer
service or a request over instant chat may also get you a free shipping code but you
have to ask for it.
Sometime if you abandon a full shopping cart before you buy on a retail website
you may get an email the next day offering you a discount to complete the purchase.
Pretend you are a new customer and use a secondary email address which may
fool a website into thinking you are a first time visitor which can get you a new
customer discount.
Thousands of retailers offer free shipping on December 15 th so go to
freeshippingday.com to get codes to enter at checkout.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CONSUMER REPORTS MAGAZINE
DECEMBER 2017