How to Ease Your Conscience and Your Budget

Aug. 23, 2012 - PRLog -- Since we have discovered online shopping and online coupon codes a few years ago, we’ve transformed into an assertive shopper! The guilty conscience and residual moral sense that we are taking advantage of someone has evaporated. Haggling or bargaining face to face is too hard for your conscience. Sometimes we would get brave and ask if there was a discount for cash but if the salesman pushed back and said, “No this is the best price we can do,” we just folded. But since online shopping we’ve saved thousands of dollars on holidays, cars, electrical appliances and clothes. Yes, we negotiate everything online these days and here’s how we do it:

1. Write Down All the Details :
Work out what item you want to buy and take note of dimensions, color, size, dates etc. Sometimes I go into stores and browse for ideas, chat with the salesman but you hardly ever buy. Occasionally you get lucky with a special in store discount, loyalty card or super keen salesman but honestly how often does that happen?

2. Let Your Fingers Do the Walking :
Do your researching on the internet instead of hitting the pavement. Cost comparison web sites make it really easy to quickly determine a price range for an item. Then start drilling down even further into web sites to find out what sort of inclusions you could get from different stores. For example, delivery, installation, removal of old item, accessories, upgrades, extras are usually all negotiable along with discounts for buying in bulk, damaged or display models etc

3. Test out Two or Three of the Better Store Price Links :
Ring them up (sometimes it feels like a game) or email and occasionally instant chat with a sales person to find out how much I can get for the lowest price. We find that starting off with lines like, “we’ve shopped here before and was hoping to get another great buy on your ???” or “We’re keen to buy a new washing machine and X will supply it for Y, are you able to beat that price or throw in any extras?”

4. Then Play One Store off Against the Other :
It is a very competitive market out there and we have all the aces: We have money and we’re willing to spend it. We never pay the full price anymore - we negotiate hard for things that we could buy in a dozen different places.

5. Make Use of Discount Coupons or Promotional Codes :
No one likes to go away the hard earned money easily and the reason why we try to find more and more frugal ways to save out of our essential expenses. If you are shopping through your local shops or online there are always an option open to save more by using coupons, vouchers or promotional codes which gives you benefit to enjoy your shopping with an opportunity to increase your savings. Make sure you will secure your discount coupons and best deals using http://www.freshcouponcodes.com is not only save your money but also expand your budget to buy quality products in the limited budget.

In the end a $200 price reduction on a $1000 item, with free delivery and removal of the old item has given us at least a 25% saving over the in-store price. Plus we have saved hours of time for ourselves with every single purchase.

But most importantly, we no longer have a guilty conscience. Negotiating with a faceless person over the phone/email is just so much easier and faster. The chase is exhilarating and when the final winning deal is locked in - ahhh what a win to relish!