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Why Online Deals?

I kind of find it hard to shop at brick and mortar store anymore. I mean I still do it from time to time if I am already on the road just to save time, but mostly I just order whatever I want from deal websites and wait for it to ship to my house. It saves me time and the effort of having to truck myself out to whatever store and buy what I want from there. Most of the burden falls on the deal website to pick out the order and ship it out, as well as the delivery service to bring it to me. I can go about my normal day to day life and just sign for the package when it arrives.

Besides convenience of service, there is another reason why online deals are great: they offer steep discounts through daily deals that is almost impossible to see in retail stores anywhere. The rare occasions in which such high discounts can be found in stores are usually meant to clear out existing stock. While this may be more convenient for shoppers to some degree, the store has no way to actively account for the inventory of clearance items. If they were to advertise in a paper ad that they were clearing a stock of TVs, who knows how many they will sell through by the end of a given day. Deal websites can take stock much more easily and advertise in such a way as to show that.

Going back to the discounts, they are not just anything like 1%, 2%, or even 5% off; I am talking about double digit discounts easily. Some can even go as high as 75% off! As far as having to pay for shipping, some deal websites offer free shipping. With all of these in mind you have effectively cancelled out the argument that actually being able to go to a store, paying full price, and taking it home with you on the same day is well worth the overall cost. It just is not true at all.

Since there are a lot of deals of the day floating around you can easily find whatever you want. And more importantly, you will be able to find them at a price you can stomach. The market is rife with competition so all of these sites are going to duke it out by out-discounting their rivals. This means more money saved for the consumer.

by: Mark Etinger




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