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Eating out is one of my favorite things to do. But aside from fast food joints, restaurant coupons are rare. I use Restaurant.com to drop my tab by 25-40%, an incredible savings. TODAY ONLY, you can get a $25 gift certificate to a restaurant of your choosing for $2, plus earn 30% cash back through Ebates – which means you pay just $1.40!!! Coupon code below.
We’ve also suggested electronics gifts, gifts at Sears, toys for kids, mens’ shavers, gifts for teens, unique and quirky gifts, and All You mag gifts. Tomorrow’s edition covers gifts for men and women. We’ll finish the gift guide on Dec. 9 with the best overall gifts.
If you’re new to this site, here’s how Restaurant.com works. You have three gift options on Restaurant.com:
Bzzzt. Kills flies with this fun $5 gift!
Unique and quirky is the theme of the Bargain Babe Hot Holiday Gift Guide Day 6. We’ve also suggested electronics gifts, gifts at Sears, kids’ toys, mens’ shavers, and gifts for teens. Coming up are gifts for men and women. We’ll finish the gift guide on Dec. 9 with a roundup of the best overall gifts.
Don’t forget to enter to win a $100 Sears gift card as part of the Bargain Babe Hot Holiday Gift Guide! ENDS TODAY, DEC. 5!
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The Kindle Fire is one hot gift at $199!
Today is the first day of the Bargain Babe Hot Holiday Gift Guide! We’re kicking it off with electronics gifts. Over the next two weeks, we will suggest gifts for kids, teens, men, and women. There will also be a day devoted to unique and quirky gifts, and we’ll finish the gift guide on Dec. 9 with a roundup of the best overall gifts.
If your budget is tight, don’t forget to enter our final five Win Giveaways for a chance to win $619 in Christmas and holiday presents, ENDING NOV. 29!
Now onto electronics gifts. An * means the gift is top rated!
Netbooks are soooo last year. This year’s hot holiday gift for people who crave being connected to the Internet is…a tablet! You have plenty of choices.
How early will you wake up on Black Friday? Credit: Warren Noronha/Flickr
When are stores opening on Black Friday? We have answers, provided by CouponSherpa.com. The earliest is Kmart, which opens at 6 a.m. on Turkey Day!
Doorbusters are listed under store openings.
Go straight to all the Black Friday 2011 deals and ads.
Ace Hardware – Midnight Friday
A.C. Moore – 5 a.m. Friday
Free $10 gift card to the first 50 customers.
Bealls – Midnight Friday
First 100 customers per store have a chance to win an iPad2, $250 gift card or $5 Bealls Bucks.
Best Buy – Midnight Friday
Best Buy will distribute entry tickets up to two hours before midnight.
Black Friday deals and buying guides are here!
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You would not believe how many pre-Black Friday sales are going on! Amazon, Best Buy, Toys R Us, Target, and are all getting in on the action. Last night I scored a huge deal at Michael’s!
Get all the pre-Black Friday and regular Black Friday 2011 deals and sales info. There are now 60 stores listed. Yowza!
Overwhelmed by so many sales? Check out the Hot Deals page or go straight to the Top 5 Deals page.
Buying Guides for Black Friday (courtesy of BFAds.net)
More Black Friday guides
Price matching tips and policies
Amazon Black Friday Deals Guide
Check out all the NEW! Black Friday 2011 deals and sales now!
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Win this $99 HD webcam from HP!
Video chatting – when you have a phone conversation through your computer with a live image of the person you are talking to – probably saved my long distance relationship. It’s just so much easier to bond and connect when you can SEE the person you’re talking to.
Now that I’m preggers, I installed Skype (a free program to make free video calls) on my Mom’s computer so when the baby comes, she can regularly see the kid for herself! The high definition (HD) webcam from HP that I’m giving away takes this to the next level. She’ll be able to see every baby pore!
Today we are launching a giving away for a $99 HD webcam by HP
Just updated the Black Friday 2011 deals and sales post with the low-down on Best Buy, Radio Shack, Half Price Books, the Marine Corps Exchange, and Toys R Us.
Plus, we added new coupons and Black Friday policies to Walmart, Target, BJ’s Warehouse, and Bath & Body Works.
Check out all the NEW! Black Friday 2011 deals and sales now!
This post contains:
- Buying Guides for TVs, Video Games, Laptops, and more
- Details on all the pre-Black Friday sales going on RIGHT NOW (listed by store)
- The FULL Black Friday ads for more than 59 stores
Overwhelmed by so many sales? Check out the Hot Deals page or go straight to the Top 5 Deals page.
Buying Guides for Black Friday (courtesy of BFAds.net)
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This is a post by BargainBabe.com writer Yazmin Cruz.
Despite the denial of many kids and grown ups, back to school season is upon us. With school budgets shrinking, student supply lists are getting longer as teachers rely on families to equip the classroom. Can you believe some schools are requiring students to bring their own electronics?
Don’t fear, we’ve got a list of gadgets you’ll most likely need and tips on how to get a discount.
USB flash drives – There’s going to be a lot of typing in middle school and flash drives (aka thumb drives) are a cinch to use on different computers to allow your student to save his or her work and plug it into another computer later. You can now find thumb drives with cute designs like
It's funny how quickly things get outdated. ellie/Flickr
I have never shopped on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that kicks off the holiday spending spree, but this year I plan to break that tradition.
I’ve been considering replacing my 14-inch computer monitor for more than a year. My tiny screen is constantly crowded with windows and tabs and apps, making me inefficient at work. I want a bigger monitor.
Black Friday is a great time to buy consumer electronics, if past sales are any indication. Here’s how I plan to get a great deal this Black Friday. (more…)
Remember how I was going to rush over to Macys to buy a food processor? Well I just used the online price comparison site PriceTrace.com and realized the current sale price is actually $35 higher than it has been in the past! I’m going to use PriceTrace’s simple, three-step process to make sure I buy a food processor at the lowest possible price. Here’s how it works.
First, plug in basic information about the product you are looking for (such as the item’s name, UPC code, SKU, or product url from a retailer) into the PriceTrace.com search box and click “Go.” Select the specific item you want to buy among the results and click “Trace it.”
Next, compare prices for your item. PriceTrace.com draws prices from all the major retailers, like Amazon, WalMart, Macys, Best Buy, and lots of smaller ones, too. PriceTrace.com shows you how the current price compares over the past year in a Price History Chart to the right of your results. The chart highlights the date when the item was at its lowest price, which is a super cool feature.
Lastly, if the current price is not near the lowest price, you can plug in your email with your target price and set up an alert when the product drops to your target price. (I’m doing this for my food processor.) This feature is called the Price Drop Alert and it helps you buy at the right time.
PriceTrace.com also has a one-click toolbar for Firefox and Chrome (IE coming soon) so you can compare prices with one click. If you need more guidance, editors at the site pick the top price drops each day so you don’t have to search for the best deals. Check out PriceTrace.com next time you are shopping online.
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By Bobbi Burger Brunoehler of BobbisBargains.
Chances are you are paying WAY too much for your printer ink. It doesn’t matter if you are using an ink jet or toner cartridge. All store bought brand-name ink cartridges are insanely overpriced. I can’t believe how much I used to pay for my printer ink. What a rip-off! The only reason that companies get away with continuing to convince consumers to overpay for their product is fear.
I’m sure you have read, heard or been told that if you use off brand ink in your printer that you will void your warranty. But according to Jeff Bertolucci at PC World, third party printer ink cartridges are as good or better than the original equipment manufacturer ink. “Our tests show that all of the third-party inks in our test group yielded more prints per cartridge–on top of costing less–but that, with some notable exceptions, the printer manufacturers’ ink we evaluated usually produced better-quality prints and proved more resistant to fading,” Jeff’s story said.
There are lots of companies that sell discount ink cartridges – sometimes at 50% of the manufacturer’s price. My favorite is Abacus 24-7. Their inks have always been super cheap and reliable. Another source of discounted products, including printer ink, is Deal Extreme. I have not used their inks, so I can’t vouch for them.
Now, here is the neat bargain trick. Instead of paying $15 or more for a cartridge, I buy drastically reduced-priced third party ink cartridges and when it is empty, I take it into Staples for a $3 per cartridge rebate that you can use towards your next Staples purchase. This can result in a profit.
That, my friends, is how great bargainistas think.
What is your favorite way to reduce ink/toner costs?
The next time you are in the market for a computer, camera, GPS, DVD player, or other electronic item, check out CheapStingyBargains.com. The site is a mondo deal aggregator that pulls the best prices from Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, Lenovo, Dell, Sears, Walmart, Buy.com, Overstock, and TigerDirect.
After finding great deals, CheapStingyBargains.com combines them with an HP coupon code, Dell coupon code or another coupon code for the particular product you are looking for.
A few recent deals I found on CheapStingyBargains.com:
- $20 off $100 sitewide at HP with a stackable coupon code
- Dexter: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-Ray or DVD (2009) $46 Blu-Ray or $35 DVD w/ Free Shipping!
- A Swiss Legend 60002-02 Endeavor Collection Mens Watch $131 Shipped
- $259 off an Inspiron 15 Laptop with instant discount
- $408 off a Studio XPS 8100 Desktop with instant discount
- $302 off a Dell Vostro 220 Desktop w/ 21.5″ Monitor for only $429
CheapStingyBargains.com also has giveaways you can enter just by leaving a comment! The forums page is extremely active, with discussions on everything from iPad envy to hot deals and freebies. You can also go straight to their Coupons tab for coupons by retailer, listed alphabetically. With so many coupon codes and hot deals, it’s hard not to find what you are looking for at a great price on CheapStingyBargains.com.
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I try to be open minded about how people spend their money. It’s not mine, after all. But after reading a story in yesterday’s newspaper about Panasonic and Samsung to begin selling 3D TVs this week, I am so $(#*@! frustrated.
Why does anyone need to watch TV in 3D?
It costs $500 more than a comparable set. There’s almost nothing to watch in 3D right now. (Sports will be some of the first 3D programming.) And you have to wear bulky glasses that require batteries. Batteries! If you don’t have on the special glasses, everything looks fuzzy.
America, this is not what you need to be spending your money on right now. How about paying off credit card debt? Or even – gasp – contributing to your 401k?
I’ve seen movies in 3D and it’s awesome. But I’m content to experience 3D at the movie theater. Not that I am the target consumer for 3D TVs. I watch about 17 minutes of TV a week and see roughly four movies a year. But even if you are a huge TV and movie buff, is having a 3D TV really going to improve your life? Make you happy? Dissolve all your woes?
No.
Regular TV is good enough for me. Who’s with me?
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This latest story about saving comes from a loyal reader, my little sister!
So my phone crapped out on me today, and its no longer under warranty. I went to the AT&T store to see what I could do about getting a new one. They gave me three horrible options: pay $120 to get a new phone under my insurance or since I was eligible for an upgrade, or spend $199.99 for the phone I already had, or spend the same amount for the Blackberry Bold 9700.
I decided that it was just to much since I bought my Bold on sale for $99.99, and that I would take my chances and get a cheap to-go phone and wait to see if they had a sale.
I headed over to Walmart to grab a to-go phone to tide me over and I heard angels sing when I went to the counter and saw that they were selling the Blackberry Bold 9700 with an upgrade for $78.88.
I thought after seeing the AT&T prices I had hit the goldmine. I snatched the phone and proceeded to buy it. After the deed was done, I called my husband to brag about how much money I had saved. $122.00 isn’t anything to sneeze at, right?
Well he looked up the phone on Walmart.com and proceeded to tell me it was free with an upgrade (when you renew your 2-year contract) online!
Needless to say tomorrow I will be back at Walmart seeing if they will refund my money and if not I will just return it and buy it online.
The moral of the story? Check prices in stores, at rivals, and online before you buy.
Tips:
- If you find a deal online, stores will occasionally price-match their own online sites if you have a print out or can show them the price on your smart phone.
- If you want to negotiate, ask for the manger and go when the store is not busy so s/he has time to hear you out.
- Amazon.com has great prices for cell phones, but the deals almost always come with a 2-year contract.
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