Speaker 1: The Cyber Monday tools to help you become a smarter
Speaker 1: shopper all year long. What's going on? Imrichhemiro, this is
Speaker 1: rich on Tech and oh yes, the holiday shopping season
Speaker 1: is in full swing and it seems like retailers are
Speaker 1: really going for it this year. The economy is doing well,
Speaker 1: people have jobs, and the sales they are a come in.
Speaker 1: Black Friday had a bunch of great deals. Cyber Monday
Speaker 1: will offer some of the best deals, but you're still
Speaker 1: going to be able to get some great offers right
Speaker 1: up through the Christmas shipping deadlines if you know where
Speaker 1: to look. So recently, I at chatta with Sarah Hollinbeck
Speaker 1: of blackfriday dot com about some of the best websites
Speaker 1: and browser extensions that can be your ally as you
Speaker 1: shop online. And Black Friday is a place that's full
Speaker 1: of all the latest deals from various retailers, plus their
Speaker 1: shopping experts also analyze the offers as.
Speaker 2: Well, so you can see all the latest ad scans.
Speaker 2: Our blog is home to the tips and deals from
Speaker 2: all the different major merchants to let you know what
Speaker 2: they're going to have on sale and what's actually a
Speaker 2: good or not. And we also have lists of Black
Speaker 2: Paradic history, Cyber Monday history, and deal roundups as well.
Speaker 1: So first up, the Amazon Assistant. This is a tool
Speaker 1: from Amazon itself. I didn't even know about this one.
Speaker 1: You actually install it in your browser, so basically all
Speaker 1: things Amazon are at your fingertips at all times, especially
Speaker 1: handy if you've got Prime.
Speaker 2: So the Amazon Assistant is really really helpful if you
Speaker 2: do a lot of your shopping on Amazon only. It
Speaker 2: will track prices of different items that you put on
Speaker 2: your wish list. So say that you head to a
Speaker 2: different retailer and you find something that you really want
Speaker 2: but it's not on Amazon yet, you can put it
Speaker 2: on your Assistant wish list and it'll let you know
Speaker 2: when that price drops or when that item is actually
Speaker 2: uploaded to Amazon, so you can make that bridchase.
Speaker 1: Then next up Camel Camel Camel. This is a fantastic website.
Speaker 1: I know it has a funny name. This is essential
Speaker 1: if you're shopping on Amazon all the time, and it
Speaker 1: gives you the full price history of a product, plus
Speaker 1: alerts if something changes.
Speaker 2: One specific thing that Camel Camel Camel does differently is
Speaker 2: that it lets you track prices your year and then
Speaker 2: set a price range that you're interested in buying that
Speaker 2: product for, and then it'll send you a notification if
Speaker 2: that product does hit that price range.
Speaker 1: On Amazon, and I usually sort of cross reference the
Speaker 1: price that it's offered at on Camel Camel Camel to
Speaker 1: see if that's truly a good price.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you can do that as well. They will
Speaker 2: track all of Amazon's prices to let you know that
Speaker 2: Amazon might be advertising it as a really great deal,
Speaker 2: but if you go to Camel Camel Cammel, they'll say, well,
Speaker 2: comparative to the last year, it's not that great of
Speaker 2: a deal. You should wait to buy it until a
Speaker 2: couple of months from now, or things like that.
Speaker 1: By the way, Camel Camel Camel is also applying some
Speaker 1: of their same tracking smarts to hotel rooms.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: They've got a new website called camellodge dot com. I
Speaker 1: haven't used it, but I just checked it out. You
Speaker 1: can track the price of a hotel room and get
Speaker 1: an email when it drops. It's pretty simple, but it
Speaker 1: could do the trick. Okay, Next up for these shopping
Speaker 1: tools invisible hand. Now, this one's kind of head scratcher
Speaker 1: because it looks like the website and all of its
Speaker 1: social media have been frozen in time, but apparently it
Speaker 1: still works. And this one will help you get the
Speaker 1: lowest prices on shopping, flights, and rental cars all while
Speaker 1: you shop online.
Speaker 2: So Invisible Hand is really great for if you're shopping
Speaker 2: on Amazon or not. It will track all of the
Speaker 2: lowest prices at different retailers in that way, before you
Speaker 2: click by at whatever retailer you are at you're shopping at,
Speaker 2: you can check and see if there's a lower price
Speaker 2: somewhere else, or maybe there's a bigger discount at another
Speaker 2: retailer that you can take advantage of.
Speaker 1: Next up Cently that is ce n tly. This is
Speaker 1: another browser extension formerly known as Coupons at Checkout, So.
Speaker 2: Cently is another one. Just like Invisible Hand, it will
Speaker 2: track the web for coupons, discounts, and lower prices to
Speaker 2: let you know if there is a different deal somewhere
Speaker 2: else that you can take advantage of.
Speaker 1: Honey is a popular shopping assistant. This one will help
Speaker 1: you find coupon codes as you surf the web. They
Speaker 1: also have their own rewards program, which they call Honey Gold.
Speaker 1: They give you up to twenty percent back on your
Speaker 1: purchase at four thousand different stores, so if.
Speaker 2: You continue to use their service after with each purchase,
Speaker 2: you end up racking up reward points that you can
Speaker 2: use to get an even bigger discount on your next purchase.
Speaker 1: Offers dot Com says the difference is in their coupon
Speaker 1: codes they actually work. They say you'll find more than
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventeen thousand offers on their site in
Speaker 1: all kinds of categories. But they say that their offer
Speaker 1: experts make sure that the coupon codes you get there
Speaker 1: actually work at checkout.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, offers dot com is a great coupon destination
Speaker 2: that will comb the web for all of the best discounts, coupons, freebies,
Speaker 2: things like that, and they will automatically apply it to
Speaker 2: your cart at checkout, so that way you don't have
Speaker 2: to do any of the work of searching for those
Speaker 2: coupons or even adding in those coupon codes. It's all
Speaker 2: automatically done for you.
Speaker 1: And finally, retail me Not has a shopping assistant they
Speaker 1: call Genie. This some one follows you around as you
Speaker 1: shop and it alerts you about codes that might work
Speaker 1: for the stuff you're buying. Plus, they will automatically type
Speaker 1: in the codes when you check out to find the
Speaker 1: one that has the best discount for your purchase.
Speaker 2: The retelling not Genie is very similar to the Offers
Speaker 2: dot Com browser extension. It's going to come the web
Speaker 2: for the best coupons and let you know in the
Speaker 2: side browser all of the different cubons so you can
Speaker 2: add it straight to your car.
Speaker 1: So how do you choose which assistant to go with? Well,
Speaker 1: theoretically you could install them all, but I definitely don't
Speaker 1: recommend this because things will be popping up on your
Speaker 1: screen all over the place, and neither does Sarah.
Speaker 2: If you're doing a lot of your shopping on Amazon,
Speaker 2: I would highly recommend the Amazon Assistant because it's going
Speaker 2: to get you the most bang for your buck. If
Speaker 2: you're planning on shopping at Amazon and other retailers throughout
Speaker 2: the season, then I highly recommend the Offers dot Com
Speaker 2: browser extension. They usually will bring you the most coupons
Speaker 2: and deals through their service compared to the others.
Speaker 1: One more thing, don't forget to actually visit the homepages
Speaker 1: and social media media pages of the sites you want
Speaker 1: to shop from. You might find some extra codes or
Speaker 1: just some deals in general there as well.
Speaker 2: I think it's really important for shoppers to read the
Speaker 2: fine print when they're about to purchase their item, whether
Speaker 2: they're using a browser extension or not. Someplaces, if they
Speaker 2: don't offer you free shipping, you might be able to
Speaker 2: go find out somewhere else, and those browser extensions won't
Speaker 2: necessarily pick up the free shipping cubonds all the time,
Speaker 2: So make sure you're looking at retailer's main websites and
Speaker 2: social media pages to take advantage of all the possible offers.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening and happy shopping this holiday season.
Speaker 1: You can find links to all these tools at richontech
Speaker 1: dot tv, or just check the show notes. I appreciate
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