The Best Tips for Daily Deal Buyers

May 2, 2012 - PRLog -- The editor of  smarterdailydeal.com  (http://www.smarterdailydeal.com) has shared the tips of using daily deal vouchers a while ago, which was well received by the readers.  After one year, they updated the tips and would like to share with a broader audience.

The editor herself is a daily deal addict and have used more than 80 deals. From her experience, the chats with other daily deals users & short surveys, here are the learnings and tips that you will find helpful in your daily deal experience.

1. Choose Careful & Buy Smartly
Most people who like and buy deals are intended to enjoy new things (food, adventure, fun, pampering..), they probably wouldn’t choose to do if there is no deals (either they didn't know about the merchant or the original price was not appealing).  But when you see a big number of discount, don’t just get go wild and put in your credit card no. straight away — go to merchant’s website and see if the offering is really a good deal, how much is the RRP, how good is the service, any reviews, etc. If by then you still feel confident, buy the deal.

2. Book in advance
Most daily deals valid for 3-6 months, some last up to 1 year; these days a lot of product deals only last for a few weeks. So, keep track of the valid period.  A lot of stories, when someone remember the voucher and call the merchant, everything is fully booked. Be careful, many popular restaurants or SPAs have regular customers too, so they are not just sitting there waiting for your call.  Plan & book in advance to make sure you can enjoy the deals that you spend your money on.

3. Organize well
If you are a deal addict too, who buys many vouchers from different deal sites.  It’s easy to get lost and forget to track all the status of vouchers. So our suggestion is to print out the vouchers and put them in a folder at some place that you won’t forget. After you book something, put the date in your diary or smart-phone, set the alarm to remind you. A bit overkill, maybe, but good for you.

4. Stick with what you want
When you use services via coupon deals, especially new SPA, Facial, Hair salons, the merchants need return customers.  Therefore, they will try very hard to convince you to buy more services or products. If you are happy to do that, great! However, there are times people become sympathetic towards the owner/service provider, then bought some package for the following half year or full year against their will.  It might be too late to regret, you have to go back for the rest of contract time, or just leave it which means money-loss.  So, stick to what you want, if you just want to enjoy one good deal, no one will kill you.

5. Sell voucher that you are not likely to use
There are occasions that you can't use some deal vouchers anymore because of constant business travel, moving cites / countries, or else.  swapyourdeals.com  (http://www.swapyourdeals.com) offers a platform for people to sell unused daily deal vouchers, then they can get money back to put into better use. If someone missed specific deal that they wanted to buy, they can also publish 'wanted' ad. on the website. Adopt this kinda of service if you have trouble using all your vouchers.  

6.  Learn from others
You might want to let others know about your experience and thoughts on specific daily deal provider or merchants. People use deals at different times, if someone has reviewed one deal, it probably will give you some idea, so you can get prepared.  Realdealbuddy.com  (http://www.realdealbuddy.com) is a place that people go and share their thoughts.

Welcome to all your comments here, we would like to make this list updated with contributions from our lovely readers. Our objective is to encourage every deal lovers to use daily deal smarter, and enjoy the daily deals to the full extent.

* Smarter Daily Deal  (http://www.smarterdailydeal.com)  is a top daily deal aggregator in Australia, The site shares hand-picked daily deals every day as well as other deals once spotted.  They also organize regular competitions for readers to win and try different deals.  Via the collaboration with food bloggers or lifestyle bloggers, the site also publishes the reviews of some popular daily deals.

Contact:  info@smarterdailydeal.com