• Buy: Creative Zen Nano 512mb MP3 Player for $10 Shipped After Rebate
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Morning Deals
By 12.20.06
• IKEA winter sale starts Dec 20-24. Officially starts on 26 but you can get a jump because you’re a loyal IKEA customer and you just got this cool email. *wink *wink.
Hack Amazon Price Drops
By 12.19.06
Amazon has a policy that if you buy something from them, and the price drops within 30 days, they will refund you the difference.
This Next: Fun Social Shopping
By 12.19.06
We noticed right away that This Next users recommend the “Airzooka”, which we own and love. The Airzooka is the single best way to scare a cat off the sofa. It shoots a “ball of air” (this makes sense once you try it) wherever you point it. Seriously, Airzooka is amazing, and This Next seems pretty cool too. —MEGHANN MARCO
Consumer Reports Tells You What To Waste Good Money On
By 12.13.06
Don’t know what the hell to get someone? Consumer Reports has a list of the “best buy” gifts of 2006. So, even Mom hates it, it sure as shit won’t break. She’ll have that thing for life. Thanks, Consumer Reports? —MEGHANN MARCO
HOWTO: Buy a Side of Beef
By 12.13.06
Get Rich Slowly has some instructions on how to buy a side of beef—which is a good way to support local ranchers, save money and get a superior quality product. Growing up, our parents always purchased meat this way. Often several couples or families will pool money to purchase a single animal. One of the advantages (aside from cost) is the time savings involved in never having to shop for beef. There’s always something in the fridge. From the post:
Gifts.com Profiles Personalities
By 12.13.06
We’ve been seeing commercials for the gift shopping site, “Gifts.com”, and wanted to check it out. We pretended that we were someone else shopping for us and took the quiz to find out what we would like. If that sentence made no sense, we apologize. Anyway, the results were acceptable, if not perfect. Gifts.com thinks we are “a thinker” and suggested things like boardgames and sudoku puzzles. Since we play sudoku on our DS all the time, we can’t argue with the results. We do not, however, want most of the crap they suggested, so maybe Gifts.com only works if you’re buying shit for really stereotypical people…in which case you probably already have a good idea what they want. Still, it’s cute and likely will generate ideas for gifts that you might not have thought of on your own.—MEGHANN MARCO
Morning Deals
By 12.13.06
• Amazon: Swiss Army Ranger pocket knife for only $3, regular price $30. It’s only available for customers who participated in the Amazon Customer Vote promotions.
AMEX’s MyWishlist: Everything You Need To Know
By 12.12.06
Once again, the American Express website offers cardmembers a chance to participate in the “My Wishlist” promotion, but what’s it all about?
Morning Deals
By 12.12.06
• Yankees: NY Yankees tickets at $5.00 each as part of Fuji Film Holiday Pack #6…11 games for $55 per person. Maximum 4 tickets per person.
Gift Giving Tip: Pretend Your Loved Ones Are Strangers
By 12.11.06
“Familiarity with another consumer is not particularly helpful when predicting the others’ product attitudes,” Lerouge and Warlop say. They find that even when our loved ones tell us what they like, we think we know better. The findings appear in the December issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.”
Morning Deals
By 12.11.06
• Amazon: SanDisk 2GB Ultra II Compact Flash Card for $39.99 Shipped. Nice deal, these usually go for around $100.
EXCLUSIVE: Costco To Make Return Policy Stricter?
By 12.9.06
Costco is making its liberal return policies stricter, according to a little birdy. Previously, you could return anything, except computers, at anytime, with or without a receipt.
