Save Money Online Shopping With These Tricky Tricks
Everyone loves to use a coupon code when shopping online. But you don’t always have one on hand when you’re ready to spend some money on essentials (or items that aren’t essential). Of course, you can google a promo code that might work. Or, you can use one of these clever tactics to save money.
Leave your cart
If you have stuffed several items in your online shopping cart and are in doubt about whether you are buying them, leave the shopping cart full and think about it for a few days. For this to work, you need to be logged into the website: in some cases, the seller will email you a coupon for an item in your cart or notify you if the price of an item has dropped.
Stores always strive to reduce cart abandonment rates because so many people – about 70% – change their minds before checkout and don’t complete their purchase. Stores are willing to lower the purchase amount if you just grab your credit card and buy something.
Subscribe to the newsletter
Many stores will ask you at checkout if you would like to receive promotional emails. It’s okay if you plan on continuing to buy from them regularly, but any discounts that arrive in your inbox will be too late to help you with the order you just placed.
If you are eyeing items from a new seller to you, the first thing you should do is sign up for their mailing list. I know you no longer need emails cluttering your inbox, but more often than not, you’ll find a little welcome offer from this brand within a day or two of signing up.
Subscribe to the text list
You say mailing lists are like 2010? Then subscribe to text messages from the brand. Matt Baglia, CEO of text marketing platform SlickText , said retailers tend to send their best discounts to text list members. This is because text messages have a 98% open rate, he said, and there is no spam folder for them to fall into.
You may not feel obligated to receive sales messages forever, but signing up for a few weeks can help you get a good deal of discount on your next purchase. Then, of course, you can unsubscribe .
Clear cookies
Some sites – no titles, no titles – will ask about the price of a product the more you look at it. If the price goes up, you think, “Oh shit. It’s getting more expensive, so I need to buy it now. ” This is dynamic pricing that can seriously undermine your confidence.
But before you enter your billing information, clear your cookies and browser cache so the website “forgets” that you were there. Then go back to the site and search for tickets or select items again. You will get a fresh, clean look at the website and quoted prices.
You can also open another browser to get a complete overview of the website. If you’re monogamous in the browser, Lifehacker senior technical editor David Murphy said you can open an incognito or private browsing window for the same effect. This is a quick fix if you don’t want to mess with your browser settings.
You may not get a fair discount using this method, but you can be sure you are not overpaid.
Register in the loyalty club
It is obvious that the store loyalty kakuyu- participants receive the privilege, often in the form of random discounts. But before you go on autopilot, pay attention to the birthday field. If the seller gives birthday bonuses (for example, a coupon or a free product), make sure your “birthday” is coming soon, you know what I mean? Then wait until you receive your birthday coupon before making your purchase.
People really hated this trick when I shared it earlier this year, saying it wasn’t fair and ruining everyone’s birthday coupons. But I don’t recommend that you suddenly celebrate 12 birthdays a year with the same store’s loyalty plan. It’s one day a year, but late capitalism doesn’t like it when this birthday is celebrated.
Get student help
Has your student card expired for many years? Then befriend a current student to get up to 20% off, depending on the store. “If you’re planning a big mining operation, it might be worth asking a college student to shop and pass on the savings,” said Mark Mezzacca, CEO of CouponFollow .
Sure, you don’t want to find a student lingering on the ATV (this is a week of evil, not a week of creepers), but if you know a student who has a valid ID on hand, why not let his access work in your favor?