If you’re an avid shopper, chances are, you have been preparing for the Black Friday for the whole year – stopping yourself from buying all of those products you so badly wanted, just so you can get a better deal on the Friday after Thanksgiving. However, the question still remains: how to find the best deals on Black Friday?
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Research, Research, Research
Don’t just drive around your neighborhood, visiting store after store in search of the best deals! Instead, start your research a couple of weeks in advance to stay ahead of the best discounts and promotions available in your area. You can even start your research a couple of months before Black Friday and write down the prices of the products you’re interested in. That way, you won’t be falling for tricks and traps disguised as deals during the shopping holiday.
Don’t forget to compare the prices of the products you’re interested in between at least a couple of different retailers. Even if you find a discount that seems great, chances are, you can find an even better deal at a different retailer. This can be especially useful if you’re looking for something specific – simply use any price comparing website to search for your product and browse through the results.
Avoid Suspicious Brands
While it may be tempting to buy a TV at an unusually low price from an unknown brand, be wary of these no-name products. Very often they boast amazing features at a very low price, but that doesn’t necessarily make them a good product. It can be better to spend a bit more for a quality product than save some money on something you’re going to regret buying.
Instead of impulse buying something just because the price seems cheap, make sure to look up online reviews for that product. With just a couple of clicks, you can access hundreds of reviews from customers all over the world – try to find user reviews first, instead of website reviews. Websites are very often paid to review a certain product, which can easily influence how positive that review will be.
Follow The Retailers’ Online Activity
While browsing through the traditional catalogs is surely a great way to find Black Friday deals and promotions, it can be done with far less effort. Instead of amassing tons of paper catalogs, you can subscribe to an email newsletter from one or more of your favorite retailers. This way, you can receive news about the latest discounts and deals way before Black Friday happens, allowing you to get prepared ahead of time.
Nobody likes having a bloated inbox, and newsletters can certainly do just that, especially if you subscribe to a lot of them. If you want to keep your main email address protected from spam, create a new one exclusively for Black Friday newsletters. After your shopping spree is over, you can safely delete the email address or simply never use it again. This way you will be kept updated about the latest discounts and promotions without disorganizing your private inbox.
You can also try checking the social media pages of your favorite stores and retailers every day during the weeks before Black Friday. Very often, retailers post their best deals and discounts on their social media pages to bring even more customers during the big day. Luckily for you, this gives you easy access to all of the latest price changes. Usually, the best places to look for such deals are Facebook and Twitter.
Don’t Do All Of The Dirty Work Yourself
Why put in all the effort of looking for the best deals when you can let others do that for you? Instead of hunting for promotions yourself, search through discussion forums online and look for products and stores you’re interested in. Surely, you will find dozens if not hundreds of threads where people write down their best findings and discuss whether or not the deals are actually worthwhile.
If you like looking through catalogs and want to do that on your own, you can make your job easier by using Frequent-Ads.com – a website that gathers catalogs and weekly ads from hundreds of retailers, allowing you to quickly browse through all of them without you having to go out of your way to find all of them separately.
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