Alissa from Free Samples Direct has given out a few great tips on getting freebies online: Keep your Personal Information Private Read Everything Before Requesting a Sample Make Sure You Are Ordering Direct or from a Quality Source If You Like The Sample Buy The Full Product Make Life Easier when filling out Forms If […]

Ross Gittins is Sydney Morning Herald’s economy editor and is one of my favourite — he has the ability to decipher economy to a point that even a software guy like me could understand. He has written an interest article a few days ago on the Herald, titled The Uninformed Pay the Price. An very […]

Yan at ProBargainHunter has some great tips on how to get the lowest price on a new car. He summed up his tips with 3 main points: Never trust the dealer. Everyone would agree on this one. I still need to decide which one is worse — insurance salesman or the car dealer? They are […]

Top Ten Retail Ripoffs Exposed, from TrampolineSales.com. If you have often been to the shopping mall, these techniques shouldn’t be too foreign to you. These are the ones that shoppers should definitely watch out for. However they are not uncommon amongst the online shops either. The “Bait and Switch” Fraud — a lot of online […]

Sometimes, you need to do a bit of bargaining to get a real good bargain, even for online stores. Shopping for a washing machine Recently we bought a brand new washing machine, because our old top-loader had constant problems over the last two years, and we could almost buy a new machine from the money […]

Sarah Stokely again wrote an excellent article on how to buy PC parts from online stores that don’t ship to Australia, and in this case especially applying to online shops in the states that will only ship locally and/or will only accept American credit cards. I suggest everyone to check out her guide on getting […]

Dan Warne of APC Magazine wrote that 300Gb is the sweet spot for hard disks, where it has lowest $/Gb at 47 cents. Are you looking to upgrade your desktop PC’s hard drive? Of course you are! There’s no such thing as too much disk space on a desktop PC. The current sweet spot is […]

OO.com.au, an Overstock Outlet company which I have reviewed here, has now introduced their own reward/loyalty system, where every dollar you spent there will earn you one point reward. However, earning rewards shouldn’t stop here, and this article will be looking at maximising the rewards when you shop at OO.com.au

Dell Computer is big in Australia. We use Dell exclusively at work, from rack servers to notebook computers. I also heard that where I graduated also started dumping white boxes and replaced them with Dell Optiplex. They have reasonable quality, up-to-date technology and good price for branded boxes. Now I also know quite a few […]

As the oil prices marches towards USD$70 a barrel, it is now costing around AUD$1.30 per litre for the regular unlead here in NSW. What can I do to cut my fuel cost?

Regarding the recent big toy sales happening around big retail department store, we found that their sale price is actually not as cheap as we thought. On Tuesday Vivian went to Kmart at East Garden Pagewood, looking for a small soccer ball for our lovely Anna, and that particular item was actually on sale! So […]