This post yesterday on TechCrunch highlights the story of Posies Bakery and Cafe in Portland, Oregon, after running a Groupon campaign last year. Her shop’s aggressive deal campaign ($13 worth of merchandise for $6) set her back $8,000 and caused her to need to withdraw from savings to make payroll and rent. She calls it … Read more
Here are a couple of great deals for you: Barnes & Noble isn’t one to be outdone. Only a couple of weeks after Amazon.com dropped a 50% deal on a $20 gift certificate over at LivingSocial.com, Barnes & Noble has a Groupon.com deal going for 50% off a $20 gift certificate! This deal is available … Read more
My wife’s laptop is showing signs of getting ready to fail, so I’ve been looking around for the past couple of days for replacement options. Since “buy used when it makes sense” is one of the very best money-saving tips I can give, part of my research involved looking for quality used options. We’ve bought “open-box” … Read more
I’m a tad late to the party on this one, but if you act within the next nine hours or so, you can snag a $20 Amazon.com gift card for only $10 at LivingSocial.com! This is pretty rare. Unlike most other online merchants, Amazon.com usually doesn’t have a lot of coupons floating around. Even rebate … Read more
My daughter isn’t quite old enough to start reading my blog yet, so I can let you in on a little secret. My wife and I just ordered a bunch of stuff online from The Disney Store for Christmas and her birthday. She’s really into princesses. 🙂 Anyway, after my wife picked out the items, … Read more
Michael Masterson, author of Automatic Wealth, Seven Years to Seven Figures, and most recently The Pledge, is very rich. (Selling books is only part of why he’s very rich.) In his latest book he writes about reading effectively for maximum return on investment. In each piece of reading, it pays to hunt for one good … Read more
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become a bit of a Roman circus of consumerism. Retailers competing for customers’ wallets with “leaked” ads coming out weeks before the big day, crazy traffic jams, all manners of people fighting tryptophan-induced sloth to get up for bunker-buster deals and full-contact shopping. Retailers aren’t stupid, though. They … Read more
I’ve talked about Swagbucks a number of times. It’s a fun site that gives you “Swag Bucks” for doing things like searching the web, doing surveys, shopping, and voting in polls. These Swag Bucks can be redeemed for all manner of swag: books, magazines, jewelry, movies, sports cards, music, gift cards, and lots more. I’ve … Read more