I bought an iPod Nano about 3 weeks ago. It was my second one - and the second time I've made my purchase right before Apple slashes the prices. The first time, I had just bought the 4GB Nano,...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Todd Taulman Kimberly Palmer had an interesting post last week about a Best Buy customer whose TV came out of the box broken: So, as irritating as that would be, you...
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© stopnlook Good Morning America had an interesting little feature the other day. They asked a family - Mom, Dad, baby - to go without using any sort of money cards for a month - no credit, no debit,...
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© axinar My post last week bashing supermarket loyalty cards brought this response from Craig, whose Flickr photo I used as part of that post: The photo above shows a loyalty benefit to using the...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5925293 Nancy Trejos wrote an interesting article in the Washington Post last week about compulsive shoppers. Here's the lead: Shannon Hassemer went on a...
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© ninjapoodles Came across this article titled "Yes, Loyalty Cards Save You Money" that, as you might guess, makes the case for store loyalty cards being a great thing. The author,...
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Via Spending Smart today I learned of a cool money-saving idea that is also darn smart marketing: Paradies Shops, which runs those airport stores where you can pick up books, magazines, Fruit Stripe...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrew Manley My wife has a significant event coming up that I want to buy her a very nice piece of jewelry for. Like really nice. I'm willing to spend in the...
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I am not the most diligent comparison shopper. I am blessed with the desire to not really want very much, which allows me to pretty much buy what I want when I want it. (Within reason, of course;...
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I'm not going to turn this into a gadgets blog, but this is an interesting development: The Netflix Player by Roku is the first in what portends to be a long line of devices designed to download...
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My wife said something interesting to me yesterday: "I might not renew our Costco membership." "Why not?" "It's a long drive. With these gas prices, I'm probably...
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Chrysler has a new promotion announced this morning-buy a Chrysler vehicle and get a gas card that you can use for three years and be guaranteed that every gallon will cost $2.99, regardless of how...
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Isn't it interesting how the same basic thing can have so many price points? This weekend my wife & I went to a local bike shop and got her a Specialized brand bike that cost roughly $350....
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© Marc Shandro This passage from J.D.'s post on Get Rich Slowly today struck me: Last fall I was talking to a friend who worked at the corporate offices of The Sharper Image. He told me that the...
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Hope you didn't get a gift card from The sharper image this past holiday season. If you did, the person that bought it for you gave Sharper Image their money only to get nothing in return: On...
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Marketing pro Seth Godin's has an interesting post on whether the "packaging" of a product or experience that includes a lot of waste could be a turnoff to your audience in these...
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People always look at the price they pay for a new car or truck, but sometimes they forget to think enough about the ongoing costs, such as how much gas a particular vehicle will guzzle (or save)....
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Christmas recap: Happy children, broken toys, frustrated and disappointed parents, followed by some singing of Fah who for-aze, Dah who dor-aze! just to show that it's not all about gifts and...
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Learned about this from Flexo at Consumerism Commentary. It's PriceProtectr, which puts a watch on items you've purchased and lets you know if the price drops within the store's Price...
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Recently I bought the best pair of shoes in my life. They are the Clarks Escalade, and they are pictured above. For a while I had been looking for a brown shoe that wasn't super dressy but...
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This is cool. One of the criticisms of PayPal has been that although it's great for eBay purchases and has been widening its acceptance, it's still hard to use your PayPal balances to buy...
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For the first time in my life, I'm buying a totally new car, namely the 2008 Toyota Highlander. I have never purchased a Spanking new car before, because I'm well aware that it's not a...
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While I'm more than willing to be assertive when I think I'm being taken advantage of, I'd like to be a better negotiator and a better haggler when it comes to what I pay for things....
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