How to be smart while online shopping and how to make the best use of various tools available to ensure you always get the best deals. We’ve outlined few tools that should help you to be a savvy shopper
CamelCamelCamel (The Camelizer)
This is an extension that can be installed for your browser. Click on the icon for The Camelizer when you’re are on the product page. Once pressed, the tool should give you privce history of a product on Amazon and third party sellers. A great tool to check if the current price is actually the lowest price. You can also use their website instead
Pricespy
Pricespy a price comparison site and is simple to use. It provides comprehensive list of prices from various retailers. You just have to type in the product name and allow the site to do it’s magic
Flubit
The site says 20% off everything. You can buy everything with points on the site. Good thing is that you can buy points with you card to buy stuff and ensure 20% off everytime
Quidco
Quidco can be used through its site or mobile apps for iOS and Android. Quidco makes money by sending customer to online store and in return it pays the customer part of the commission it gets from the store.
Honey
Honey has browser extensions for chrome and Firefox. The extension comes in to action as soon as it notices a product page that it has discount codes available for. It works 9 times of out 10 and is a great way to save some money through discount codes. They also have a website called joinhoney which is similar to the Camelizer in terms of providing price history
This year the shopping extravaganza falls On the weekend starting 29th November with a new day (cyber Monday) added on 2nd December to keep the deals going for four days
When do deals start?
Based on how retailers are operating this year the deals have already started from the beginning of November and shall continue until first week of December.
Amazon Black Friday has been confirmed starting 22nd November. You can make use of 30 day free trial prime membership if you haven’t signed up for one already
While the likes of Tesco mobile, Amazon, John Lewis, Curry’s have already started offers since the beginning of the month, the biggest discounts should start to show closer to 29th November.
Some of the biggest discounts can be found in stores below
We keep track of all deals that are released. You can visit our page to find latest bargains as they’re released.
Televisions
4K televisions are very popular these days. Although 8k televisions have already been released and available they’re quiet expensive and there isn’t enough content for 8k to justify the purchase. 4K content is widely available with most streaming services and live broadcast now switching over to 4K. There is still some way to go before all content is 4K so a television with 4K capability should last you at least for the next 5 years before 8k starts to make in roads. We’ve short listed the best 4K deals on the best televisions currently available in the market. There’re cheaper alternatives available but won’t be much of an upgrade over the HD television you already own.
Key selling point for 4K has been OLED and we agree it has the best blacks of any television. They’re ideal for watching in low lights. LED technology has had a major improvement as well and we would recommend LED for anyone not wanting to spend as much on an OLED. Also, LED are ideal for bright rooms and for rooms and for watching in daylight.
If you’re looking for headphones this year then wireless is the way to go. There’s a debate about sound quality among audiophiles however what you miss out is minuscule compared to the advantages you get from wireless headphones.
Apple has upped its game with the AirPod pro this year as the competition in that segment is very close.
You need to consider the battery life, charge times, form factor and ease of connection to various devices.
Laptops and Tablets
These are mostly essentials now and not a latest must have. Most standard laptops offer decent performance for most task you expect to carry out on a Laptop. You may want to budget differently if you’re looking for a specific application to run that requires lots of resources.
Mobile phone and plans
Foldable seem to be latest trend this year with offerings from Samsung, Huawei and Motorola. Although with the latest offering Motorola seems to have got the design and pricing right.
The latest version of the Maclegion bundle provides Fantastical, Djay and iRipit as part of the bundle. Below is the description from the Maclegion site.
“Holiday Bundle 2012
The 2012 Holiday Bundle has arrived! We’re offering you 11 best selling Mac apps valued at over $540.00 for a one-time-only exclusive price of $49.99! That’s over 90% off!
As always, MacLegion ensures all the apps included are the latest versions each developer has to offer. MacLegion bundles entitle you to full after-sales support as well as valid upgrade paths for later software releases, just as if you had bought each application from the developers themselves.”
The bundle ends on 07-Dec-2012. So you have little time in hand to grad the deal.
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