Saving despite consumption
If you put some money aside and still don’t want to do without a certain consumption, you have to rely on bargains. Buying discounted goods is the easiest and most effective way to save money when shopping.
The following tips will help to make bargain hunting efficient and successful. If you combine the tricks here, you will achieve the best possible prices when shopping.
Price analysis and discount campaigns
Purchase prices are always dynamic. This is especially the case with products that are offered on the Internet. Accordingly, one should plan cost-intensive purchases early and observe the price development of the product over the longer term, as “Capital” recommends. Analysis tools and comparison portals help here. But cheaper goods can also be purchased at the best price.
The longer the observation period, the greater the chance of getting a good price.
However, the price analysis would not be complete with this. Real bargains can only be found when the offers of numerous online retailers are compared.
This means that if a product is advertised as a bargain, for example, this can be confirmed or, if necessary, disproved with a short search.
Lucrative discounts can also be achieved in real life. Supermarkets, discounters and other specialist retailers offer weekly special discount campaigns, which according to “Offer-Post.de” can usually be found in the respective brochures.
Coupon Codes and Loyalty Points
Another tip: make targeted use of cashback portals, loyalty points and voucher codes.
According to the “Aachener Zeitung”, anyone who collects loyalty points or buys via cashback portals saves, especially in the long term. Loyalty points are collected over several years and can then be used as currency at the participating retailers. The same applies to cashback portals, although smaller discounts can be achieved here from the first purchase.
Coupon codes, on the other hand, act as short-term or one-off discounts, they cannot be collected or bundled. These codes can also be found on the Internet with a targeted search. The voucher can then be redeemed when you check out the corresponding online retailer.
await deadlines
But the time of purchase can also represent a significant cost factor. On days like Black Friday, Cyber Monday and similar key dates, bargains are offered in heaps.
In addition, even more money can be saved by anti-cyclical shopping. So if you are planning for the long term, you can snag heavily reduced products in the clearance sale in the summer or winter. This applies to both online trading and analog shopping.
Henry Ely / Editor finanzen.net
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