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You're a Chump if you Pay Full Price for That

Posted 36 weeks 1 day ago by Catherine Shaffer

Frugal Living, Deals, Coupons, Shopping

Couponing and bargain shopping are not for everyone. It takes some time to clip the coupons, organize them, and keep track of sales at all of your favorite stores. But since I've gotten into it, I realized I was missing out on some very simple deals. A number of retailers and manufacturers run perpetual sales or coupon deals on products such that you would be a chump to pay full price for them.

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Best Time For Summer Shopping In Europe!

Posted 1 year 11 weeks ago by Joann Hong

Shopping

miss selfridge jacket

Did your high season European flight take a huge chunk out of your savings? Well, at least the shopping doesn't have to be as painful, even with the weak dollar conversion rates. Many countries in Europe, France being the most evident with their "soldes", have government regulated retail sales. This means they can only slash retail prices twice a year, which results in mega summer and winter reductions.

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Sample before you buy - Perfume

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Shopping

Lucky Scent: How I learned to stop worrying and love the sample. 

Some of my biggest expenditures are made in the fragrance department of Seattle’s downtown Nordstrom. I have a very powerful sense of smell, and I get a real kick out of finding a great perfume that can lift my mood. Large department stores will often provide free samples of their perfume if you request, so you can try them out over the course of a few days and see how they age on your skin, how quickly the top notes wear off, etc.

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Customer Service Nightmares - What's a Good Consumerist to Do?

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Consumer Affairs

I love the web site Consumerist.com (motto: Shoppers Bite Back). They provide some great money-saving ideas, funny advice on how to get away with things that you didn't even know you could, and good commentary on consumerist culture.

In addition, Consumerist offers some great customer-provided stories about companies jilting customers, and they offer the customer the best revenge - public venting of their experience. Better than a rant/rave on craigslist.org, the stories at Consumerist are mind-boggling. The kind of bullying that goes down at retailers both big and small, online and brick-and-mortar, are often laugh-out-loud funny.

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