Coupon codes and such on Twitter can be ephemeral so you often have to jump on them quickly. To the rescue comes Thrift.it, a new site that lets you scrounges through Twitter for the latest deals. [More]
Premium Organic Wines Are A Good Deal Right Now
By March 8, 2010
If you want a good deal on a high-end bottle of wine, a new study suggests you should look for wines that clearly indicate they’re made from organic grapes. An economics professor and an environmental science Ph.D. candidate compared wines made with certified organically grown grapes to conventional wines, looking at both price and taste rankings, and found that the organic ones scored on average one point higher on Wine Spectator’s rankings. For some reason, telling that to consumers seems to devalue the wine: high-scoring bottles that advertised their organic nature sold for less at retail, while bottles that withheld this info scored just as high on taste but also were priced higher than average. [More]
GameStop Offering 50 Percent More Trade-in Credit
By February 23, 2010
Normally it’s a walk of shame for gamers to lug a pile of games to GameStop to get pennies on the dollar in cash or trade-in credit for stuff they probably didn’t finish and overpaid for. But a deal going on right now for the proverbial “limited time only” offers 50 percent in bonus trade-in credit for your games. [More]
Why Aren't You Haggling Yet?
By February 1, 2010
Michael S. Rosenwald saved $15 on a pair of shoes at Macy’s, $3 on a steak at Giant, $6 on a DVD set at Best Buy, and $100 off his next Verizon bill (plus a 10% discount on future bills) during one week spent haggling. In this Washington Post article, he describes how it felt to switch from the habit of paying full retail to looking at a price tag as a “suggestion,” in the words of one expert he met with. The executives Rosenwald spoke with repeatedly said that bargaining is not standard practice, but that didn’t stop employees and managers from making deals in order to close the sale. [More]
GM Reaches Deal To Sell Saab To Spyker
By January 26, 2010
Spyker, a specialty car maker that makes only a dozen cars a year, has actually managed to come to a deal to buy Saab from GM, says Dow Jones. [More]
College Students, Get Into Consumers Union Activist Summit For Only $25
By January 22, 2010
If you’re in college, you can go to the Consumers Union Activist Summit this February in DC for the discount price of $25, saving you $75. Meg and I and Marc will be there and presenting, and there will be talks by Senior Economic Adviser to Obama Austan Goolsbee, Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, and professional badass Elizabeth Warren. Deets inside: [More]
Whopping Salmon Savings At Albertsons
By January 8, 2010
Charles spotted this fantastic salmon sale at Albertsons, which is aimed at those who take the phrase “a penny saved is a penny earned” to heart. The sign maker may as well have labeled it “Buy 399, Get One Free!” [More]
30-Year Ski Passes Available!
By January 5, 2010
USAToday says that a Utah ski area is offering a limited number of 30-year ski passes to people who buy condos. [More]
Sears Epic Pricing Error Leaves Hundreds With Canceled Snowblower Orders
By January 5, 2010
A too-good-to-be-true deal that turned out to be a Sears pricing error got posted to Slickdeals.net — and you can imagine the hilarity that ensued as hundreds of people tried to order snowblowers (sometimes 5 at a time, to resell on craigslist), only to be turned away when they tried to pick them up. According to the 1000-some comments on the slickdeals thread, some people did manage to pick up their item before Sears caught on, but reader BJ was not one of them. In fact, instead of being honest and explaining the error, BJ says Sears lied to him. [More]
Buy A Home, Get Free Can Of Food
By December 1, 2009
As if the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers wasn’t enough, Clayton Homes, a Tennessee-based seller of manufactured, modular, and mobile homes, is offering a little something to sweeten the deal: a can of pork and beans. [More]
Black Friday Picks From A Tightwad
By November 26, 2009
We still think that shopping on Black Friday is a really, really bad idea, but apparently we’re in the minority. According to one recent poll, 54% of American consumers are planning on shopping at some point this weekend. We’re hoping that at least some of them are just going to pick up some Zantac to help deal with today’s excesses. For the rest, there are a few deals worth considering, if you know where to look. [More]
20 Tips To Ready You For Black Friday
By November 26, 2009
Budgets Are Sexy’s J. Money put together a list of 20 ways to prep yourself for Friday’s shopping frenzy. Here’s a taste of the post: [More]
Black Friday Deals To X Out With A Red Pen
By November 26, 2009
Gizmodo has sifted through all the Black Friday deals and found the ones to avoid. [More]
Black Friday Doorbusters Are A Sleazy Way To Lure Customers
By November 20, 2009
Pay no attention to those ridiculously cheap TV sets and game systems—also called doorbusters—that retailers use to lure in hordes of holiday shoppers, notes CNN. They’re the equivalent of that little dangly thing anglerfish use to catch food.
Walmart's Black Friday Plan: Cheap TVs, iPod Touch With $50 Gift Card
By November 19, 2009
The morning after Thanksgiving, Walmart will make its customers elbow and curb-stomp one another in order to jostle for Sanyon 720p HDTVs for less than $598, a Magnavox Blu-ray player for $78 and $195 iPod Touch that comes with a $50 iTunes gift card, CNNMoney reports.
Website Tracks Black Friday Deals
By November 16, 2009
The website BlackFriday.info tracks post-Thanksgiving sales ads as they’re posted and leaked, giving you one-stop shopping to find out what deals will be worth elbowing strangers in the face for.
@Couponbot Serves You Coupons Via Twitter
By November 12, 2009
Shoppers are getting online coupon code crazy, with searches for promo codes up 55% from last year. But why waste your time Googling when you could be watching thewebsiteisdown.com and an armada of Twitter agents are searching for coupons on your behalf?
