How to buy at the best price in online stores?
If you like to shop online, you will know that online shopping offers many advantages, but one of the
offers many advantages, but undoubtedly one of the best is the ability to compare
is the possibility to compare different products, prices and payment conditions.
Shopping online is becoming more and more challenging and fun, here are 7 tips to get the best prices on the internet and make the online shopping experience more satisfying.
1-Determine what it is exactly what we are looking for.
It all starts with knowing what we specifically need or are looking for, since we cannot make a price or product comparison if we do not know exactly the characteristics of what we want.
An example of this could be the search for surveillance cameras, since in the market there are an infinite number of cameras with similar prices and features, but not necessarily identical, which is why before looking for the best price we must make a list of those that have the specific features we are looking for in the product.
Example:
a. The camera records only in the cloud through a manufacturer’s service or records locally on a memory, or records directly to a surveillance video recorder, etc.
b. The camera has light to scare away intruders or burglars or it does not.
c. The camera is wired or wireless.
And so on until we find the one that fits our needs, as this will allow us to know the brand and model to compare prices that we find in online stores.
2-Use search engines to find the product and the virtual stores that sell them.
Once we know the brand and model we are interested in, we can use search engines, of which as we all know Google is the most used, so we will write in the search Brand and Model followed by the word PRICE, as that will give us results that will show us prices of the products and additionally we can click on the SHOPPING tab that Google has and that will show us results that can in turn be filtered.
It is then when from all these results we can click to open them in new tabs or windows to more specifically make a comparison now of the conditions of sale offered by each seller to see which one best meets our preferences and needs of quality, warranties, delivery times, user ratings etc..
3-Make a comparison of prices and sales conditions.
Now it is time to analyze the results we have obtained from the search engines by reviewing in detail each of the offers we opened in the previous step.
There are some brands that in addition to having their store and official website, also sell their products in other online sales stores, also known as MarketPlaces like Amazon, Mercado Libre, Linio, Ebay or in department stores like Liverpool, Palacio de Hierro, Home Depot among others.
And sometimes we can find better conditions in the official stores and sometimes we can find better conditions in the stores known as MarketPlaces, since in addition to the prices there are sales conditions such as interest-free months, discounts, gifts or coupons.
4-Check the presence of the store and its service centers.
Of course, one of the things that is very important to consider at this point is to know what conditions for returns and warranties the store we select for the purchase has, since the place where we reside can affect warranty issues, repair or purchase of spare parts and accessories.
And if what we are going to buy requires specialized installation, it is very important to make sure that their service centers can solve efficiently and in person the problems without further complication.
We do not want to save money and fall into warranty problems or purchase of accessories that make it difficult or make us have a bad buying experience.
5-Plan our purchases and take advantage of seasonal discount opportunities.
As we already know there are special dates or events in the year in which we can find more benefits or discounts when making a purchase, for example we are talking about the Buen Fin, the night sales that Liverpool usually has, Las noches Palacio de Hierro, the Home Depot Christmas sale, the Juguetilandia discounts in December and January, Black Friday, Hot Sale, Cyber Monday, etc.
That is why, if the purchase we are going to make can be planned or we do not need to have the product immediately, the most advisable is to make our purchase process according to the above points, reserving the products in our carts just waiting for the dates with the aforementioned promotions.
6-Take advantage of promotions or discounts that we could have with our payment method.
All banking institutions and online payment processors such as Mercado Pago, PayPal, OpenPay etc. generally offer discounts and unique benefits, which we can take advantage of, causing the choice of the payment method or the online store where we will buy the product.
7-Make use of bargain hunting applications
Today another advantage that we can use to find the best prices are those applications that alert us when a product that interests us has lowered its price, such is the case of:
Keepa (Amazon)
Which based on a previous search on Amazon and by following up on a product, also allows you to set the price range you would like, and then give an alert when the product you are looking for is within that range, in addition the extension shows the historical price of the product analyzed and allows us to see if it is at its lowest or highest point.
Promo discounts
This application is powered by the users themselves, who have found promotions or discounts on the items we are looking for and perhaps its biggest advantage over keepa is that this application not only shows the promotions of the products online, but also shows you if these promotions are in physical store, so it is not exclusive to a store, since being fed by a community of users the offers are of all types of stores.
If you usually shop online you may already know all these tips to buy at the best price in online stores, but if not start using them and happy shopping.
