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Best Five Money Saving Tips for Online Shopping in India

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Nowadays, no one is away from the growing influence of the world of Internet shopping. Every one of us is impressed by the ease of shopping online and getting the product delivered right at our home. We do not have to face the hassle of closed stores, unfriendly shopkeepers and non-availability of product in the local market. We can order almost everything online now using our credit cards, debit cards or cash on delivery for products. In India this trend is slowly picking up pace. Companies like Flipkart and Snapdeal have changed the Indian shopping landscape entirely. Most stores have extended their presence to internet and hence they provide great convenience to the consumers, while also making money for themselves by extending their sales beyond physical boundaries.
However, there are many chances that the product you purchased from your favourite online store is costlier than the price you could get if you purchased it from another online store or a conventional offline real store. Usually online stores also charge some shipping costs, which end up making the product purchase a non-profitable scenario for you.
In our previous articles, we talked about how to setup an ecommerce company in India and how an Indian startup is helping you shop better with personalization solutions, in this article we will discuss how you can save money shopping online with personalized coupons and some other smart methods.
1. Use coupons – Coupons are one of the easiest ways to save money. Most e-stores issue discount coupons for items. These coupons can provide you with free shipping and/or great discounts. These discount coupons are also easy to use and one just needs to enter the code while checkout. However, the hard part is finding these coupons. Nevertheless, there are many such websites in the market, which consolidate these coupons. Flipit is one such website, which I personally favour. Flipit is a multinational company and its major plus point is their wide range of coupons and the way users can personalize their member account through preferences. Once you select your favourite online store in the preferences, the portal will always show you the best and latest working coupons from that store. Becoming a member is free of cost and in return, you get access to the exclusive member-only coupon codes, which provide higher discounts. The portal currently offers around 1,100 live working coupons! What excites me about this company is their ambitious plan of developing a geo-based couponing App for Google Glass, and a postal service that delivers customized coupons to your door. They also have many exclusive deals with the Indian shopping websites. They have a clean layout, which does not contain popup ads. User interface and searching for coupons is very easy too.
2. Use debit card/credit card more often– Many online stores provide discounts to the credit/debit cardholders of certain banks. Now you do not necessarily have to have bank account in all the banks. If you have a bank account in major banks such as ICICI, SBI and Citibank then there are many chances to easily avail up to 20% exclusive discounts. Some credit/debit card schemes also give you great deals such as buy one pizza get another free, or buy one movie ticket, get another free. If you do not have a bank account yet, check which one provides better deals. If you already have a bank account then keep an eye on the stores who provide exclusive deals for debit/credit card holders of your bank.
3. Use Comparison Websites – There are many websites in the market, which provide a basic level price comparison of the product you intend to buy. Using such websites like Junglee.com , you can pick the store which is offering the required product at cheapest costs. It might take a little longer time, but in the end, you will save lots of money. Once you find out the website, which is offering the item at cheapest cost, go back to Flipit, find the coupon code for that store and save even more!
4. Availing Cashback/Points redeeming schemes – Many websites in India offer instant cashback on certain products. It will lower the cost of the product and ultimately you end up in saving lots of money. Some services like Payback require you to register with them, they track your purchases everywhere by providing you a Payback account number that you can enter during checkout or swipe a Payback card while making purchases in the offline stores. Your every purchase earn you some points, which you can redeem at various online shopping portals such as eBay. You can also buy some products directly from Payback portal.
5. Smart Shopping – It cannot be stressed upon enough. Most shoppers end up purchasing the products they want at much higher cost if they are not smart and they bought the product at wrong time. Certain products like mobile phones and electronics lose value very fast because newer products arrive in market every day. Their cost is highest when they are just launched; slowly they reach a saturation point. The idea of smart shopping is to buy when the price is lowest. If one has some experience in online shopping one can easily guess the behaviour of cost of product with time.
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