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A great benefit the Internet offers you as a smart shopper is the ability to find bunches of discounts online! Lots and lots of lovely rebates, grocery coupons, money back, dollars off, printable coupons for brick-and-mortar stores and the like.
Let's learn more by starting with:
Before You Begin - Some Basic Premises
Merchants like you spending your money. Generally, the more you spend, the better! But sometimes they first have to get you into their store (or website). This is where the coupons/freebies/rebates kick into gear.
But now let's take it a weeee bit further. Let's say that you have a hankering to buy a printer from Staples. You could go to Google and search for
and see that bunches of sites offer coupons from that store.
That's very lovely.
Think now for a sec, however. One way of getting a good price is to take advantage of rebates, right? Search instead for
That store has an online presence at Staples Easy Rebates! And if you visit that site, you'll see the link Find rebate offers now - you can search for anything like printers or computers or what have you. Dozens of rebates were returned.
This shows you one very key fact. You can find discounts/rebates online by:
- Searching - go to your favorite search
engine and search for item coupon or
item discount or item
rebate
- Visit the site itself - visit the merchant's
website itself and use their search functionality to
find "discounts" or "deals" or "coupons" or "rebates.
Want to learn more? It's now time to dive into:
Step 1 - Research!
Did you know that coupons are often shared via online forums?
It's true! Let's say that you have a deeply ingrained desire to buy crafts at Michael's.. Let's pretend that you weren't aware you could simply visit that site and look for their weekly deals! Go instead to Google and search on
You might find:
Wait a sec, that was a person offering a coupon! Look at the site again - it's a whole forum dedicated towards coupons! Quite an excellent resource.
But it's still not an online printable coupon. Go back to the original search - you might find:
There's some coupon information that reads, Michaels store coupons are not available online or via email. They are distributed through your local newspaper or ad distribution service only.....
Ah, that explains it.
What if you weren't dead-set on a brand...can you find even better deals online? Of course you can! And that leads me to:
Step 2 - Free Coupons
Take a deep breath and click on the following search:
Just look at all those places that are offering these great bargains! Sites like:
all offer you super bargains you can take advantage of.
Here's another useful tip. Many online shopping sites will offer discounts via a "code." Search now on Google for
Some results might be:
The above sites returned will all offer you coupon codes you can use when purchasing from particular merchants.
And don't forget online auctions - you can find great big bunches of already-clipped coupons at eBay like the following:
Similac $5 off baby formula coupon|
3, 10% OFF LOWES COUPONS. IN ITS OWN FOLDED DISPLAY! |
LOWE'S COUPON 10% OFF UP TO $500 DISCOUNT EXP OCT 09|
4 LOWES COUPONS 10% OFF YOUR NEXT PURCHASE EXP7-23-09|
4 LOWES COUPONS 10% OFF YOUR NEXT PURCHASE EXP7-23-09|
20 Coupons $1.00 off Starbucks Bottled Frappuccino|
There are lots of great bargains online, once you simply know how to go about finding them.
Step 3 - For More Information
As always, it's the educated consumer who is the best (and in this case, safest!) customer. Enjoy the following useful resources.
- Coupon Forum - excellent forum for coupon discussions
- Moms View - bunches of coupons of all kinds
- Confessions of a Coupon Clipping Queen - handy coupon-clipping tips
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