How to Save Money Shopping on the Internet

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Always try to consolidate your purchases.

   Make a shopping list then use a search engine that lets you search your entire list for the lowest total price for the entire list.
   
   Amazon offers the ability to consolidate purchases at their site, but often the purchases come from different sellers so you actually don't save on shipping charges after all.
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   Step 2: Using online shopping lists with integrated price tracking such as spottster or camelcamelcamel will help you never forget a product or sale again.

   You simply save products and relax
   - they will notify you if the price drops or vouchers pop up.
   
   Camelcamelcamel is exclusively for Amazon, spottster tracks the prices of 3’000+ shops and is both a browser add on and an app (Android and Apple) ,, This site lets you sign up for free and save between 1% and 25% on many different online merchants (the average saving is 2%-4%). , Unfortunately, many of the "offers" on these sites are just ads for various sales and specials that lead you to a website rather than actually provide a code to save you money. ,,, It also allows you to get complete price protection within 90 days and Double Warranty on anything you buy.
   
   After the trial, it costs $5.99 per month, billed annually.
   
   Deals such as this can save you money long term if planned properly. ,, A good example of this is the BN Membership program, which for $25 bucks per year, gets you a 10% discount.
   
   This is great for avid book reader or movie watchers (since they offer DVDs at great prices) or student who need lots of textbooks. ,, Of course, you can cancel if you don't want the extra bills and you can't use or don't want whatever long-term saving it may offer. , If you want something that is not in stock in the store, you can often order it from their website with free shipping.
   
   Sears goes even further as to allow customers to order anything from the website with no shipping charges. , Even changes within the season allows online merchants to provide clearance and sale offers.
   
   Make use of sales, clearances and save a great amount of money.
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   Step 3: Another solution is a shopping list search engine which finds the lowest seller of all the items in your shopping list (including of course Amazon)

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   Step 4: but also obscure sellers which often have really low prices.

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   Step 5: Use sites that will offer you money back in the future such as Ebates.com.

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   Step 6: Check out coupon sites to see if there are coupon codes available for the website you are trying to use.

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   Step 7: Check any Frequent Flyer Programs to see if they allow you to earn miles by shopping online.

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   Step 8: Try searching for the product you are looking for on comparison sites such as Froogle

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   Step 9: and Shopping.com

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    Step 10: but beware that they do not check every site and will often show you results that do not actually lead to a product

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    Step 11: and do not account for shipping charges

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    Step 12: which can vary a lot between websites.

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    Step 13: You may want to become a member of free shipping sites

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    Step 14: such as FreeShipping.com

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    Step 15: which offers free shipping from over 1

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    Step 16: 000 online merchants.

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    Step 17: Try ordering catalogs from Catalogs.com

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    Step 18: as they sometimes offer exclusive offers that can be used online

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    Step 19: as well as customer ID numbers which allow the companies to identify where you got them from which can yield discounts once in a while.

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    Step 20: Consider investing in One time fee or low cost membership programs of various websites to see if you can offset the cost of the membership with saving.

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    Step 21: Always check eBay for the product(s) that you are looking for

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    Step 22: as you can often find unbelievably good deals on new and mint condition stuff.

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    Step 23: Think about getting the credit cards of various stores

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    Step 24: sports teams

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    Step 25: because they often offer rewards for just signing up and even more rewards for spending as little as $25-$50.

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    Step 26: Consider stopping by a local store if an online retailer offers one

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    Step 27: for the following reason.

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    Step 28: Keep an eye out for seasonal sales and clearance bargains.

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