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Everyone likes to save money, right? My grandmother spent hours clipping coupons to save $3.00 at the grocery store. Today you can print those coupons from the Internet in much less time but you’re still only saving a few dollars. That’s not good enough for me. Call me greedy, but I want a really good deal. Call me ruthless, but when I am finished buying something I want to feel like I took advantage of the seller.
There is an Internet site just for people like me - FatWallet. http://www.fatwallet.com. FatWallet is a very active site where shoppers and bargain hunters go to swap deals and strategies. Whenever a retailer, whether online or brick and mortar is offering a good deal, you can bet that people are talking about it on FatWallet. Better yet, people always seem to have an angle on how to get just a little more than the “best” deal. If Best Buy has a TV on sale for 20% off in the store, someone on FatWallet probably knows of a way that you can buy that same TV online, for the same price, plus take advantage of a further 15% off by using online code XYZ. Who sits around and watches this stuff all day?
For the best deals, watch for price mistakes on FatWallet. When a web site has an item priced incorrectly, people will quickly post it on FatWallet. The retailer will eventually catch the error and correct the price but, before this happens, hundreds of Fatwalleteers will show up at the site and buy the item at the lower price. Usually by the time the error is corrected, packages of half-priced DVD burners or flat screen monitors are en route to bargain hunters all over the country.
If you are looking for a great bargain on just about anything, check out FatWallet.com.
This tip was originally published in the August 2003 issue of the MYLA Brief, the newsletter of the Milwaukee Young Lawyers Association. |
