Amazon's Black Friday Deals

Check out Amazon's Black Friday deals.

Great deals for filler items to get free shipping.

Radio Shack to become The Shack?

Link:
http://www.radioshack.com/theshack/

Also, TheShack.com redirects to RadioShack.com so it might be true.

CircuitCity is back

Under new ownership. You need to opt-out of the new owners getting all of your information.

As part of our "Customer First" initiative, and respect for your privacy, you can opt-out of having your personally identifiable information transferred to the new Circuit City. Personally identifiable information may include name, address, email, phone, and purchase history. However, it DOES NOT include credit card data or other personal financial information; this information will not be transferred to us at all. If you opt-out prior to June 9th, your personal information will be purged and you will no longer receive email communications from Circuit City.

That didn't last long. I wouldn't trust buying anything from them. Will you?

Relaunch Information:
http://www.circuitcity.com/sectors/opt-outv2.asp

Printable coupons from RetailMeNot

ReatilMeNot is now supporting printable coupons in your local area. Just visit the webpage, choose what you're looking for and a location. Printable coupons are displayed on a Google Map.

My main concern with any of these coupon printing websites, aside from the actual vendor, is the trust that the coupon is actually valid. Already RetailMeNot is becoming infested with 3rd party coupon websites. This will probably continue until it becomes useless.

Try it for yourself and let me know if you actually found and used a coupon from the website.

Link:
http://www.retailmenot.com/printable

CircuitCity.com is coming back?

This is on the CircuitCity.com website:

CircuitCity.com is also temporarily closed, although we anticipate the website will reopen in the coming weeks. Please check back for updates.

What does this mean? Is Circuit City not dead?

Amazon takes a stand to eliminate wasteful, hard-to-open gadget packaging

Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging, a multi-year initiative designed to alleviate "wrap rage," features recyclable boxes that are easy to open and free of excess materials such as hard plastic clamshell cases, plastic bindings, and wire ties. The product itself is exactly the same—we’ve just streamlined the packaging.

Finally! You would have thought an online retailer would have done this much, much sooner since the hard-to-open packaging was in place to prevent shoplifting.

Link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/...

How to Buy an HDTV Like a Pro

You can't exactly load up a bunch of test signals and spectrum analyzers to carry into Best Buy to check out their TVs (though Gary has been known to do this). Still, there are some basic things you can look for beyond the specs, which are at times intentionally misleading. Once you've swept the reviews from the likes of HD Guru, CNet and Home Entertainment, giving you an approximate idea of the best performers in your price range, find out where they are and visit them in person. Obviously, the sets on the shelf aren't always properly tuned, but if the store is committed to making a sale—and they are more now than ever before—they should produce a remote and let you mess around to properly vet it for your living situation.

Link:
http://gizmodo.com/5067130/...

Book: Predictably Irrational:

Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greater relief from a more expensive drug over its cheaper counterpart and why honest people may steal office supplies or communal food, but not money.

A very interesting book to learn about how and why we behave in certain situations. If you like reading to learn then this is a book for your library.

Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational...

Best Buy to buy Napster....why?

A filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday confirms that retailer Best Buy has entered into a deal to completely purchase online music service Napster, for $121 million including $54 million up front.

Why? Where is Best Buy going with this? Are the brick and mortar companies as we know it on the way out the door?

Link:
http://www.betanews.com/...

Infomercial Scams

A complete site geared towards revealing the scams of infomercials. Still find it hard to believe that people buy the junk that these infomercials are pushing. Sure I enjoy watching them, but I have never bought anything.

Link:
http://www.infomercialscams.com/

Find even more deals at TechDeals

Techdeals has been a grassroots site, keeping our audience updated on where to find the best deals on technology products and services while also never taking ourselves too seriously.

Link:
http://www.techdeals.net/

Also read "5 websites to save you money on your next purchase"

5 websites to save you money on your next purchase

Below is a compiled a list of the top 5 websites to help you save money on your next purchase. When making a purchase online it really never makes sense to leave the coupon or promotion code box empty. These websites help you locate a valid coupon code to save you money whether its online or offline.


GottaDeal.com:Not only do they provide coupons codes but they also actively search for deals for products in both online and offline stores. This is a great place to check if you just want a deal and have some money to burn.


Hot Coupon Word: What makes this place bookmarkable is that they provide actual, old school, printable coupons for many brick and mortar stores. You can wade through scans of retailer flyers to locate coupons and deals. This is one of the few places that provide you scans of the actual flyers.


Brads Deals: Another great site for coupons (in-store) and coupon codes (online retailers). When visiting this site make sure to check out the Top Coupon bar on the right.


DealTaker.com: One of my favorite places to get coupon codes. I often check here first and have saved lots of money on GoDaddy products through the years because of DealTaker.com. Be sure to check out their Filler Items tool which locates products for various retailers for a certain price to allow you to take advantage of free shipping (usually).


Retail Me Not: From the people who brought you BugMetNot comes RetailMeNot. What I like about this website is the design of the website is professional and easy on the eyes. Its simple to use and each coupon can have a user rating and some feedback - this lets you know ahead of time how likely it will be that the coupon code will work.

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Get free shipping in Amazon with an Amazon Filler Item

An Amazon Filler Item is a an item that is used to get to the $25 free shipping level in Amazon. The Amazon Filler website lets you choose the amount you need to fill and it will display a list of products that meets that value amount. What this does is make it easy to find those low value items that can get you to free shipping.

Link:
http://www.filleritem.com/index.html

CompUSA's Going-Out-Of Business Discount List not so great

Nothing so great if you ask me with the CompUSA's going out of business discounts.

Link:
http://.../leaks-compusas-going+out+of-business-discount-list

Amazon's Black Friday Ads

When you think about Black Friday ads don't forget about Amazon. Be sure to check out their deals and be much happier shopping from the comfort of you home.

Link:
http://www.amazon.com/b/?node=384082011...

Locate huge savings at Amazon

A neat little trick to locate huge savings at Amazon.com is by entering a special URL that displays products from a certain category and limits the results to products that are discounted by a certain amount.

Example URL:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?node=468642&pct-off=90-

URL Breakdown:

Url to get to Amazon Search:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?

Display products from the Computer and Video game category (node):
node=468642

Show products that are at least 90% off:
&pct-off=90-

That's all there is to it. The link below provides a URL generator to make the whole process simple.

Link:
http://eleven21.com/amazargains/

Save money while you're in a store

With Frucall you can call an 800# and find out how much a product is if you bought it online. Just call the number, enter the Universal Product Code (UPC) and the best prices from major online merchants are given to you.

How this helps is two fold: 1) You can decide not to purchase and buy it online or 2) Use the price as a bargining tool. A lot of stores have a price-match policy and will match prices to an online merchant. Just last week I went to purchase contacts and the base price for Lens Crafters was $30 a box. I went online and found them at lens.com for $20 a box. Brought in a copy of the online page and Lens Crafters matched the price and also included a $30 rebate. Price matching and using online merchants is a great way to save a lot of money and all you have to do is ask if they support it.

Link:
http://www.frucall.com/

Super low prices over at Jungle Crazy

Jungle Crazy lists products from Amazon that are at least 70% off the retail price. I have been checking the site for the past few days and was amazed at some of the discounts.

Link:
http://www.junglecrazy.com/

Retail Me Not: Coupon codes for online stores

ReatilMeNot works kinda like BugMeNot but provides coupon codes instead of login credentials. Its probably me but I am so turned off by the dark design of these two sites. In fact, so much that I prefer DealTaker for my coupon codes. Judge for yourself.

DealTaker coupon codes for GoDaddy:
http://www.dealtaker.com/GoDaddy-coupon-code-a528-c40.html

RetailMeNot coupon codes for GoDaddy:
http://www.retailmenot.com/view/godaddy.com

You tell me which is easier to use...

Link:
http://www.retailmenot.com/