delill alavony asked:


To find out who is offering the most competetive price and still maintaining a high quality have you been walking up and down the steps of the different stores? Have you been wasting a lot of money commuting from one place to another and still haven’t gotten what you were looking for? Are you tired after all that shopping spree and exhausted not just by fatigue but also by the fact that you trip was utterly futile? Then online shopping is the only answer for you. Also visit Comparison Shopping.

You may be quite skeptical about making your purchases online, but rest assured the quality of the goods and the time taken to deliver is worth it. As to the security of your information being given over the internet you simply need to shop on the sites that are verified and secured for safe transaction. If you are still doubtful about shopping online, then here are 3 reasons on how online shopping helps.

Saves Time

Time is definitely saved by online comparison shopping. Now all you have to do is to look for a website that is selling the product you are looking for. The same product can be got in different brands which is best if the website belongs to a retailer. You will be helped in choosing your products and a list of the features and what the difference in price is would be given to do a comparison of the products. Now you don’t have to waste your time going into town, searching for retailers who sell the product, looking at various things and still being indecisive and going to other dealers to check if they are offering the same price or lesser.

Saves Money

Online comparison shopping does help you to save money as well. Getting to various dealers and back might cost you a lot and on the way certain expenses that need to be met, like buying a coke or some water or may be even to grab a few bites. When you do online shopping all of these expenses can definitely be cut down. As to the few bites and a bottle of water, you just need to walk to the refrigerator.

Saves Energy

By the end of a physical shopping episode you are definitely going to be exhausted and if you haven’t found what you were looking for then you are going to be exhausted and angry. Both are cut down with online comparison shopping. I’ve never heard of anyone being exhausted from shopping online and even better I have never come across someone who was angry that they couldn’t find the product that they were looking for because online shopping does help you to locate the product from any part of the world. So if you are looking for original ginseng from china, then voila, online shopping will definitely take care of that for you.

If these three reasons are not good enough for you then it is best that you take your flight tickets and go to china to find your ginseng. Internet sure has made life easy for you and you can make good use of it. Now comparison shopping need not be tiring anymore. In no time the product you need would be found out at the best price with just a few clicks. Hope you have a happy online shopping!

Related Articles: 3 Reason To Compare Prices When Shopping Online



KYLE

Lhunthonwen asked:


I’m doing a bit of comparison shopping, and I wanted to find out some info about these headphones:

http://store.apple.com/ca/product/MA662G/B?mco=MTIyMjQxNg

Driver Unit Size (mm) -
Ear Cushions -
Folding -
Frequency Response -
Impedence (ohms) -
Sensitivity (dB) -

thanks!
I’d just like the specs for the headphone link I gave. I DO NOT want to know about the in-ear headphones.

KENNETH

ReneeD- ttc#1 asked:


I’m looking at buying a Ford Escape, an 07 or 08 (although I think I like the newer styling better). I’ve been doing some comparison shopping and have come across quite a few of them that are 4 cylinder, which has really surprised me. I thought an SUV that size would require a V6. The 4 cylinder would be nice for higher mpg, but I get nervous that it wouldn’t have enough pep. I’d love to hear from anyone that currently drives or has driven an Escape, thanks!

SHELDON

Tim Cartwright asked:


Everyone talks about comparing bargains when it comes to buying a new car. For one thing, car salesmen **** comparison shoppers. It’s all the reason you need to do it. The big question about comparison shopping, however, is that most people do not know how to do it all that well.

How exactly do you get your hands on the right information, reliable price quotes you can compare to other dealer’s bids?

The process of buying a car is entirely different from most other forms of buying. It is very different from buying a dishwashing machine or a refrigerator. When you’re buying something like this, you walk into a store, identify what you like, and ask how much it is. There’s a set price, listed very clearly on the product.

If you ask “how much is this one?” on a car lot, you are going to get strange looks from the salesmen within ear-shot. Buying a car is about negotiating. There is no sticker-price, per se. You definitely don’t want to pay the price that the dealer gives to you during the first exchange.

To be a savvy car buyer, you have to have the whole process down. You need to know the games that the dealerships are going to play and what you are going to do to stay in control. To talk prices, you need to know what you are doing.

Set out in your negotiations confidently. Don’t be afraid to cut to the chase and tell your dealer or dealers that you are receiving quotes from other sellers for exactly the car you want. Ideally, you should walk into a dealership with the best price. Most salesmen should be ready and waiting to beat your best price.

Unfortunately, the process of getting prices from dealers can be a little complicated if you don’t go about it the right way. In fact, talking money is a waste of time unless you have a definitive strategy.

Fortunately, there are several strategies you can pick up on quickly. The first actually allows you to do most of your work online. Most dealerships have their own Websites and email so you can reach out to them online to request a quote. By contacting multiple dealerships, you can see how the figures stack up.

If you want to conduct all of your research via AutoBidsOnline, you can determine a price you are willing to pay and submit a “Buy Bid” online. Dealers can then accept or counter the bid. On the other hand, if you contact the dealers directly to conduct your research, you may find that most dealers have automated systems allowing you to inquire about a specific car and receive an automated response explaining the price.

Once you have a few responses from dealers establishing a price for the car you want, you can start to prepare your bid for posting on AutoBidsOnline. The key is to establish that you have done your research and there are dealers out there ready to sell you your car for the price you quote. Politely, you can set about establishing your position. You are ready to give business to the first person who offers you a competitive price given the parameters established by your research.

If you have all of your finances in place, your position is even stronger. There is nothing like comparison shopping when you have your house of cards in order and money ready to spend. It opens the possibility of enticing the very best deals.

Particularly in this strained credit market, the customer with money available represents a much higher return on investment than the customer waiting on approval for their financing. After all, the dealer doesn’t have to spend ages persuading the consumer to take out a loan, to agree to an interest rate, to even commit to buying a car.

With AutoBidsOnline, comparison shopping to find your next new car not only becomes considerably easier, the process itself becomes more effective at keeping dealers in check.

When you’re ready to find your next car, don’t waste any time sitting around at your local showroom. Get online and study the market, post your bid, and shop for your best deal from a position of strength.

Tim Cartwright writes for AutoBidsOnline.com , a place to research car prices, new car comparisons, reviews, and much more. Build your own car specifications and get competitive quotes from car dealers in your area.



CHADWICK

thinkpink_93 asked:


I own a handbag and accessories boutique that has been featured on Good Morning America and in Cosmopolitan and other magazines. We are not a tiny company and have received great press but we are also not a really large company yet either as we are only entering our 3rd year. So in the spirit of offering what people find most valuable, can you please answer the following question?

Is it more important for you to receive FREE Shipping or lower prices?

For example, both Zappos and Piperlime offer Free Shipping/Returns but their prices are inflated to cover these costs so in reality, it is really not free but this seems to appeal to a lot of people.

Examples,

On Piperlime, they offer a handbag at $84. We sell the same bag for $69.99 plus $7 for (2-3 day priority) shipping so total is $76.99. So you save $7 when purchased from us.

Zappos sell a ring for $67. We sell the same ring for $49.99 plus $7 for (2-3 day priority) shipping so total is $56.99 In this example you save close to $20.

Do you just look at sites that offer Free Shipping or would you take the time to comparison shop?

Thank you for taking the time to read and answer this. I’ve always just tried to offer really fair prices as I thought people look for the best price with good quality and service. Less than 10% of people return something so I didn’t want to charge for something they likely would never use but if this is more important to you than just the price point, I would love to know so I can incorporate that.

Thank you very much for your time!

BILLY

douglas j asked:


WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don’t would not amount to a backhanded tax increase.

“I absolutely reject that notion,” the president said. Blanketing most of the Sunday TV news shows, Obama defended his proposed health care overhaul, including a key point of the various health care bills on Capitol Hill: mandating that people get health insurance to share the cost burden fairly among all. Those who failed to get coverage would face financial penalties.

Obama said other elements of the plan would make insurance affordable for people, from a new comparison-shopping “exchange” to tax credits.

Telling people to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase, Obama told ABC’s “This Week.”

“What it’s saying is, is that we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore,” said Obama. “Right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase.”

Obama faces an enormous political and communications challenge in selling his health care plan as Congress debates how to pay for it all.

He told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he will keep his pledge not to raise taxes on families earning up to $250,000, and that much of the final bill — hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 10 years — can be achieved from savings within the current system. Coming up with the rest remains a key legislative obstacle.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said there is no way Obama can achieve his goals without raising taxes.

“He has to. How else do you pay for it?” he told CBS.

Obama put his support behind the idea of taxing employers that offer high-cost insurance plans.

“I do think that giving a disincentive to insurance companies to offer Cadillac plans that don’t make people healthier is part of the way that we’re going to bring down health care costs for everybody over the long term,” Obama said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Obama’s network interviews were taped Friday at the White House. He became the first president to appear on five Sunday network shows in the same morning, an extraordinary effort to build public support for his top domestic priority.

The goal is to expand and improve health insurance coverage and rein in long-term costs.

Yet despite so many weeks of speeches, town halls and interviews, Obama said he has found it difficult at times to make a complex topic clear and relevant.

“I’ve tried to keep it digestible,” Obama said. “It’s very hard for people to get their arms around it. And that’s been a case where I have been humbled and I just keep on trying harder.”

Obama told Univision’s “Al Punto” (”To the Point”) that the strong opposition to his plan is part of a political strategy.

“Well, part of it is … that the opposition has made a decision,” he said. “They are just not going to support anything, for political reasons.”

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Obama doesn’t understand Republicans’ opposition.

“I don’t know anybody in my Republican conference in the Senate who’s in favor of doing nothing on health care,” McConnell said. “We obviously have a cost problem and we have an access problem.”

But he told CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Democrats’ plan is simply too rushed.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Obama has ignored grave concerns over his plan and his media blitz won’t change that.

“The president is selling something that people, quite frankly, are not buying,” Graham told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“He’s been on everything but the Food Channel,” he added.

ALPHONSE

fisuiks asked:


I’m trying to figure out which websites people go to in order to do price comparisons between goods. How do you go about finding the best stores and prices?

EVERETTE

CODANK WEB DESIGN asked:


More recently, people are using the Internet to not only find information or personal amusement, but for shopping. There is no doubt that the majority of surfers use the search engines to find what they are looking for, a growing number of online shoppers are turning to a new type of specialized search engine – designed specifically to assist them with finding the best deals.  These new search engines retrieve product and pricing information from various vendors, allowing for product comparisons.

The comparison shopping engines or CSEs are focused exclusively on merchandising. The focus is on the sale of the specific products. As a result, online shoppers only get what they are searching for, something to purchase. If a company is selling a product from their website comparison shopping engines is a tool needed to bring potential customers to their site.

Different from search engines, companies have a great amount of control over how the comparison shopping engines display the information retrieved from their web pages. They can usually specify what needs to be presented and how it is displayed. Traditional search engines do not provide anything like most comparison shopping engines.

In order to get listed with a comparison shopping engine, a site must meet certain criteria. The conditions include: a shopping cart and a list of the prices for each product. If a website meets these basic criteria, it is a candidate for inclusion.

Two popular comparison shopping engines are:

Google Product Search (formally known as Froogle) PriceScan

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REGINALD

autobot_catapillar asked:


Brand HP
Series Pavilion Elite
Model M9180F(GX610AA)
Recommended Usage Media Center / HTPC
Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700(2.66GHz)
Processor Main Features 64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Cache Per Processor 2 x 4MB L2 Cache
Memory 4GB DDR2 667 (4 x 1GB)
Hard Drive 1000GB (2 x 500GB) 7200RPM SATA
Optical Drive 1 HD DVD player
Optical Drive 2 SuperMulti DVD burner with LightScribe Technology
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT graphics card with 512MB dedicated video memory, DVI and TV-out capabilities with support for Microsoft DirectX 10. Up to 1791MB Total Available Graphics Memory as Allocated by Windows Vista
Audio High Definition audio
Ethernet Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps network interface
Wireless Card Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n
Keyboard HP wireless keyboard with extended range (up to 30 feet)
Mouse HP wireless optical mouse
Operating System Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition
Software Included Photo and Video:
HP Photosmart Essential: Organize, edit and share photos
muvee autoProducer Basic: Automatically create professional looking home videos and burn to DVD
DVD Play HD-DVD: Watch HD DVD movies

Entertainment
Cyberlink DVD Suite Deluxe: Automatically fix and edit videos and create CDs and DVDs. Edit, burn and archive data to discs.

Productivity
Microsoft Works 9: Includes a word processor, spreadsheet, database and calendar
Adobe Reader 8.0: Read and print PDF files

PC Security
HP Easy Backup - backs up your personal files, including photos, music, video, emails, bookmarks and documents.
Norton Internet Security 2008: Protect your PC out of the box (60 days of complimentary live updates)

Online Services
Easy sign-up to major dial-up and broadband Internet Service Providers:
- AOL Basic Dial-Up (offer included)
- AOL Dial-Up Advantage (offer included)
- MSN dial-up (offer included)
- EarthLink Dial-up (offer included)
- NetZero Dial-Up (offer included)
- NetZero Accelerated Dial-Up (offer included)
- Juno Turbo Dial-Up (offer included)
- High Speed Internet Services Comparison Shopping
Special Features Personal Video Recorder:
NTSC TV tuner, over-the-air ATSC high-definition television tuner, and FM tuner

Remote Control
HP Media Center remote control with IR (infrared) receiver

HP Pocket Media Drive bay
HP Personal Media Drive bay
Motherboard
Chipset Intel G33 Express Chipset
CPU
CPU Type Core 2 Quad
Installed Qty 1
CPU FSB 1066MHz
CPU Speed Q6700(2.66GHz)
L2 Cache Per CPU 2 x 4MB
CPU Main Features 64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Graphics
GPU/VPU Type NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Graphics Interface PCI Express x16
Memory
Memory Capacity 4GB DDR2
Memory Speed DDR2 667
Form Factor DIMM 240-pin
Memory Spec 1GB x 4
Memory Slots (Available/Total) 0/4
Maximum Memory Supported 8GB
Hard Drive
HD Capacity 1TB
HD Interface SATA
HD RPM 7200rpm
HD Spec 2 x 500GB
Optical Drive
Optical Drive Type HD-DVD
Optical Drive Spec 2.4x HD DVD-ROM, 5x DVD-ROM, 15x CD-ROM
Optical Drive 2
Optical Drive 2 Type DVD±RW
Optical Drive 2 Spec SuperMulti DVD burner with LightScribe Technology: 16x DVD±R, 8x DVD+RW, 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD+R DL, 8x DVD-R DL, 12x DVD-RAM, 16x DVD-ROM, 40x CDR, 32x CDRW, 40x CD-ROM
Audio
Audio Chipset Integrated
Audio Features High Definition
Communications
Modem 56k modem
LAN Chipset Integrated
LAN Speed 10/100/1000Mbps
WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN
Front Panel Ports
Front USB 2
Front IEEE 1394 1
Card Reader Front panel 15-in-1 memory card reader: supports SmartMedia, xD, MultiMedia Card, Secure Digital (SD), Mini Secure Digital, Compact Flash I, Compact Flash II, IBM Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo, RSMMC, MMC Mobile, MMC+
Back Panel Ports
PS/2 2
Rear USB 4
Rear IEEE 1394 1
RJ45 1 port
Mouse
Mouse Type HP wireless optical mouse
Keyboard
Keyboard Type HP wireless keyboard with extended range (up to 30 feet)
Physical Spec
Dimensions 16.61″ x 7.00″ x 15.51″
Weight 24.25 lbs. approx

BERT

BRAT asked:


Me and my husband did…since last year when I got my new Verizon phone, I started receiving these text messages that I thought were just advertisements for some match-making thing…the texts said something about “soulmate love” and $9.99, but I always deleted those as soon as I received them and never, ever replied or texted back anything. I never thought anything else about it until recently when my husband (who pays the bill online) was comparison shopping the plans so we can upgrade… and he found that we have been charged for over a year for these texts I’d been receiving. I never received any services…no horoscopes, no whatever they are…but we were charged all this time, and it was $20.00 per month and once it was $40 in addition to our normal cell phone bill. He never though much about our bill being $20 more…he thought I’d been texting my Mom a lot (who lives in another state) and he just paid the bills and was done with it. Last December, it was $40 more and he did mention to me about it being a lot higher but I told him I didn’t understand and that I had not been texting her much at all.

So, by accident he found out that we’ve paid about $400 more than we ever should…for services we never signed up for or agreed to !! We complained to Verizon and they eventually credited our account for $60 (they could only go back 3 months, they said) and we filed a FRAUD complaint with them. They also gave us the number to contact the company charging these fees, which is MOBILE MESSENGER, who also used names like soulmatelove.com and MMTXT that appears on your bill. They’re all the same company and my husband researched the internet and found that the man that is behind this whole scam, and who is cheating tons of people around the WORLD out of money and wasting their time, as well…because they have to fight with their service carrier to get their money back, or some of it…he is living in Australia and there have been lawsuits against him in the past or maybe currently, I hope. He is a millionaire now because of his LOW-LIFE way of doing business, because he’s too sorry to get a REAL JOB like most other people ! There are many class-action lawsuits going on because of these fraudulent text charges and we should all be aware and watch your cell phone bills carefully. If you find that you’re having this same problem, DO something about it and complaint, file a fraud report, etc.

I found this information on the man who supposedly owns this company–do with it what you may :

If you’d like to fight back, send complaints to Mobile Messenger in Australia:

Eugeni Zhenya Tsvetnenko
19 Hawkins St Mt Pleasant 6153
Australia
0 9364 6646
melissa.valenzuela@mobilemessenger.com
david.young@mobilemessenger.com.au

or Mobile Messenger in Santa Monica, California:
Michael Pajaczkowski
2700 Colorado Ave #450, Santa Monica, CA 90404
mobilemessenger.com

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT VERIZON WIRELESS AND OTHER CARRIERS ARE ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN ??? Knowing that there are all of these lawsuits going on and unauthorized charges…and yet they let these THIEVES continue to use THEM to do their billing !! They must make a profit on the transactions, so they are just as guilty UNTIL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND STOP DOING BUSINESS WITH THESE GUYS.

Have you had similar experiences and if so, please share them here on Yahoo Answers…maybe one day we can do something to stop this junk from happening anymore.

Thanks for any input you have !

WILBURN