Therefore shopping online for me has now become a place of finding special items unavailable elsewhere or getting awesome deals with minimal hassle. Best place to find hard to find items is Google.com. A quick search will usually lead me to relevant links where I can find the odd sized seatpost, out of print record, obscure artists prints, etc… As everyone has experience, Google has a simple direct quick usability that keeps me coming back even though I am getting slowly suspicious of their back room activities as they partner with the government and growing army legal professionals. On the more traditional side of online shopping, www.groupon.com has become a new favorite. The site offers anyone a 24 hour window to purchase a deal of the day. The deal can be related to anything from food to clothes to a round of golf. Typically the discount is close to 50%. A friendly and well designed site directs users to the deal and invites them to subscribe to daily emails on the deal of the day. Not only are the savings remarkable, but the products available are usually of very high quality. Thanks to groupon, I golfed at some of the areas most well regarded courses for half of and bought my girlfriend a year long membership to the Art Institute for $40. The icing on the cake is that the transaction process online is very simple and return users will find it even easier to buy the deal of the day. Usability, value, experience, update all rate highly on this site and I encourage all of you to join. If you do, please join through the below link so I can get referral credit.
19 November 2009
Ecommerce
Ah the joys of shopping online. I am not a big shopper in general, but like most people I think once I get started, I can easily get carried away. I think this was more likely to happen two or three years ago in the fat times, but that is a whole other discussion. Shopping online is great. You have everything you can ever want or need in one place, but with most things online it can be difficult at times to find what you want and if you are like most Americans like me, you will probably have very little patience to get what you want by mail when you know you can get it from a brick and mortar.
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A few years ago my brother started buying bacon off of the internet. He said it was the best backon he's ever had, but I still cannot fathom buying food from a computer. I know it's actually fine, I guess I have a "thing".
I've heard of Groupon but never looked into it. I'll defiitely check it out.
buying bacon online makes a lot of sense if you are a "foodie". there are just some things that are not readily available close to home and can be delivered right to your doorstep. artisinal, organic, or traditionally made foods is definitely on that list. Have you tried some of your brother's bacon? I bet if you did, you'd be pretty impressed. You should bring some into class.
:)
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