With Back to School shopping and the holidays right around the corner, money is tight everywhere. Many of us need to stretch our family’s monthly budget as far as it will go. As I’m sure you know, online shopping can save you a lot of money. Vendors have lower overhead than their brick and mortar counterparts and they can pass this cost savings onto us, their customers. However, you can get even greater savings by taking advantage of special offers and online coupon codes.
Be alerted to special offers
There are many companies that will run special sales that only last a short period of time. And because some of these companies operate only online, you could easily miss the sale. Local retail stores will mail advertisements of a sale, so you always know what the latest deals are. Yet because there are so many more online retailers than what you have in your local town, it’s highly impractical to be notified of every sale, even when you sign up for a newsletter or weekly emails of sales. There are, however, websites that gather all of this information, making it easy to browse and find the items you are looking for. Keep in mind that these types of deals are simply special sales and often don’t require a coupon, but you do need to know that the sale is happening.
Coupon codes
Every online retailer is set up to allow their customer to enter special codes at the time of their checkout. These discount codes are the modern electronic equivalent of the paper coupon that smart shoppers have clipped and saved for many years. What you may not realize is how common these discount codes have become. Almost all of the major online retailers have at least a few promotional discount codes they are offering. Unfortunately, it is not always simple to find these codes. Thankfully, there are websites that are constantly searching and listing these codes for online shoppers. The savings that can be realized from these codes is often quite large, and I for one never purchase anything online until I have checked for an existing coupon code.
I like to keep at least one of these aggregate coupon code sites bookmarked in my browser for quick reference when I’m shopping on the Internet. One example of this type of site that I use is www.DontPayFull.com. Believe me, once you start using coupon codes for online shopping, you may find it difficult to buy anything online without one!