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Post-Holiday Sales
By You | December 30, 2007
Hey You! Shoppers Rule No. 10 is quite simple. If you at all can, wait until after the holidays to make purchases. The after holiday sales will save you insane amounts of money — some I’ve seen are up to 80% off original prices. Sure, it totally sucks that retailers take advantage of the holiday season, but that’s their job, and I suppose we can’t fault people for wanting to make a living. But we sure can screw them if we save up our purchasing for after the holidays.
As a Jew, this is easy for me, I have very few gifts to purchase (Chanukkah gifts just go to the kids, and as I don’t have any of my own yet, it’s one per customer). If you can’t get around it that way, perhaps exchange small tokens for the holidays and little home made coupons to purchase the big stuff when it goes on sale two days later. Or is that blasphemous? I hope not.
There is, however, one drawback to this plan. Selection. The selection of items may very well be more limited or depleted than pre-holiday shopping. Especially if we’re talking toys and other specialty items. But please, that Wii you couldn’t get because they choked up supply to raise the price, will be more than available the day after Christmas. And cheaper no doubt.
I know this is all very practical sounding — perhaps even humbuggish. Still, if you’re strapped for cash, it’s not a bad way around the problem.
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