The Best Deal
How to use the right tools to make the best deal!
by Neal Rapoport, DealTaker.com
Finding a great online deal, can seem like a difficult task, but with this quick guide, and the Free tools at DealTaker.com hopefully you won’t overpay ever again!
You may be looking for a particular item, a coupon for a store you know you want to shop at, looking for deals in general, or you may even have a coupon, and just want to find something worth getting. We’ll go over all these scenarios and mroe to give you the best tips for getting the most for your money!
1. You know the item you want and where you want to get it, or you just want to shop at a certain store, and want to save money!
If you’re set on getting it at a particular store:
- Simply search for the store name (up top), or find the store in our complete store listings, and you’ll be presented with any available coupons from that store.
2. You know the exact item you want, but not sure where the best price is.
This is a 2 step process:
- A quick search entering a model # or details and using the Price option up-top will give you a list of stores and prices which sell your item. You can then order by price to narrow it down even more. Currently there’s over 625 stores and 15 million products being searched!
- Once you’ve found a store (or a couple stores), be sure to look on the right column, or click the Get xx store coupons link for a list of coupons available for that store.
- If those efforts didn’t yeild a spectacular enough offer, then post your request in our Find me a Deal forum, and let our members and moderators try to find a better deal.
3. You just want to find some deals and save money
You have a few choices for this option:
- A glance of our Homepage will give you a quick view of the most recent 12 or 13 deals.
- Viewing our Advanced view of our homepage will show the recent 4 or 5 days worth of deals, as well as the recent coupons added to DealTaker.com.
- or Clicking the Deals link up-top will show the full interactive forum listing of all the deals.
- Sign up for the Email Notification and all the latest deals, freebies & coupons will be delivered to your emailbox, as often as you like.
4. You have a coupon and don’t know what to buy to get the best deal
- Searching for the store name will give you a list of the coupons and deals recently posted to our site.
- Utilizing PriceTaker, use the Find Filler Items box to select your store, then enter the price range, and you’ll get a comprehensive list of items that match the store & price criteria.
5. You have a coupon, but don’t meet the criteria
For example, a store requires $25 for free shipping or, you have a $10 off $30 coupon but only $28 worth of stuff.
- Use PriceTaker, use the Find Filler Items box to select your store, and desired range of item prices.
6. Not sure what to get for a present for someone
- Gift Cards make great gifts!
- Browse our Forums, or ask for advice in our Deal Discussion or our Off Topic areas (off topic only visible to registered members with 5 or more posts.
7. You just want some FREE stuff, and we mean absolutely free.
- Head over to our Free Stuff area and sign up for some stuff. It’s suggested that you create a free email account (hotmail, yahoo, etc), because some of the registrations may yeild a lot of emails.
Some other timely things
- Black Friday is the Day after Thanksgiving, when lots of stores have deals. We’ve got an entire section of DealTaker devoted to helping you get the lowdown before it hits.
- The hottest toy of the year, TMX Elmo can be yours Enter our contest today
- Get some FREE DealTaker.com stuff (shirts, backpacks, etc) just for accumulating points for contributing on our forums.
- Shop a lot online, and keep forgetting the coupons? Add our Coupons Toolbar Bookmark and hopefully you won’t forget next time!
Hopefully this guide will get you going on saving money next time you shop online. If you have any questions just click the Contact Us link on the bottom of all our pages, and we’ll help you out the best we can!
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Neal Rapoport, owner of DealTaker.com, with the assistance of his members, has helped hundreds of thousands of visitors to his web site save money on household items they would have paid much more for had they not visited the site first.
Neal can be reached at neal@dealtaker.com.