Our Top 10 List Cont'd
Our No.3 recommendation goes to the largest office supply retailer: Staples.com. Staples is known for its advertising of many free after rebate items. We like staples for several reasons:
Staples Easy Rebates is their trade mark, it is convenient to submit (you can submit online without hassle to tear the UPC), highly reliable in terms of honoring and fairly quick to receive the check.
Staffs and managers in the store are generally nice and helpful. Custom contact 1-800 number is a little bit hard to call but once you get connected, the custom representative is pretty efficient to address you questions.
There are all kinds of coupons floating around. We suggest you subscribe staples email list to receive coupons through email and by mail. Sometimes you may get a very good deal by applying coupon on a discounted item.
Coupons and Rebates
If you are purchasing printers, softwares and small electronics, often you might find rebates available to save. Staples easy rebate is highly recommended. Also take advantage some coupons offered by retailers like staples, office depot and office max. Typically you can save 10% - 20% extra.
Our No.4 recommendation goes to craigslist, the internet portal for yard sale. You can buy or sell through craigslist free of charge. It has been the most convenient way for quick local sales. Here are what craigslist is special:
Buying, selling or social activity are extremely easy using their plain but useful interface. It has been reported that the advertisement sale for local newspaper has been losing most their revenue to craigslist. This is no surprise at all. Craigslist is free, fast and environmental friendly.
People post their moving sales on the craigslist, often deeply discounted. In case they just like to get rid of the item, you may get something valuable at a fraction of the price.
Craigslist offers more than just buying and selling. The community and personal sections are good place to join local activities and meet local people. Recent years jobs on craigslist grow quickly that some local employers post to lower their hiring cost.
Again, we have to remind you that transaction through craigslist could be fraudulent or even dangerous. Other than the tips we offered to identify scammers, we have some suggestions on the local transaction.
As advertised, bestbuy is known for video games and electronic gadgets. Their store is very comfortable to shop and people are generally friendly. We recommend bestbuy for the following reasons:
We experienced very good custom service in store and by phone. You receive greetings and proper amount of help in store visit. Occasional return and exchange is not a problem. Online shipping in general is very fast.
Even though we focus on evaluating online shopping, we cannot help but give "A" to the in-store vedio game demos in bestbuy store. The hands-on experiend is very important in deciding whether some item is worth to purchase.
If you purchase using a Discover credit card, Bestbuy is one of the store that discover gives 5% cashback for online shopping through its shoppers program. If you join the reward zone and spend over $2500 at bestbuy (online or in-store) in a calendar year, you will be upgraded to premier silver membership. One of the advantages for premier silver members is that all online orders will be shipped free.
