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Error 666: Price Increases Before Sales
Are we really getting a deal?
As Black Friday nears, stores and websites are touting the sales before the big one. But are they fantastic deals?
How do you know if the ‘regular price’ listed is the actual regular price?
Is the coupon you have from Facebook legit?
There are some stores out there that have gotten smart. They know how tech savvy some of their clientele have become and don’t play any games. But there are more bad apples out there than good.
Not to sound like an echo chamber, but with today’s economy we can’t play those games. People are struggling. Stores need to keep our patronage, but they also know when they’re the only cat on the block.
You can protect yourself in a few ways. Online shopping in the easiest to check, track, and find better deals. Downloadable extensions for your web browsers might slow your browsing down a little bit, but in the long run can save you a few coins here and there.
If you want a more in-depth article about some of these extensions, look at this one here. My favorites, if you want my opinion, are Honey, and CamelCamelCamel. The Capital One Shopping is a good one too, I just feel like it has too many ads for me to get a credit card through them.
