Hot Links: Shopping Notes
Some people call it a stereotype, but I call it the truth: we Asians love saving money.
Few things thrill us more than sales prices. We love to buy in bulk. My parents weren’t very demonstrative or given to displays of affections while I was growing up — they endured my high school graduation with expressionless faces and were genuinely puzzled when I asked them why they didn’t bring the camera — but I often had to endure their crowing exultations and ear-to-ear beaming when they bought ten giant packs of toilet paper on sale at Costco or when they found apples for less than a dollar a pound at the Mexican market.
The advent of the internet has been both a blessing and a curse to my sales-lovin’ peoples. On the internet there are sales galore. You’re almost guaranteed never to pay full price for anything ever again.
However, there’s also the fear that we’ll miss out on the best deal because we either bought too soon or bought at Amazon just before the same item was posted for less at Overstock.
So of course it was an Asian who thought of ShoppingNotes.
Meng-You Yang created ShoppingNotes as a tool for internet shoppers to get what they wanted to buy at the price that they wanted to pay.
ShoppingNotes works like so: you find something you want to buy, paste the URL into ShoppingNotes, and then provide an e-mail address at which to get alerts. From there, ShoppingNotes tracks each and every price change and sends updates on the price to your e-mail. Once it hits the perfect price, you can click the link to buy!
You can also track the same product on several different sites so that you make sure you’re getting the very best deal!
ShoppingNotes works with any website: you can use it to get the best deals on electronics, books, and, of course, jewelry!
Their motto is, “Never miss a sale again!” I know I won’t.
Sold,
Olivia
