Buying online today is really easy, you just need to have a prepaid credit card such as PostePay or a Paypal account linked to the same card to be able to buy anything without commissions safely. In this guide we try to summarize the best tricks, sites and apps to save money when buying anything online, looking for the most suitable tools to understand if the proposed price is the lowest possible, to find offers and stay updated .
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Price comparison sites
First, after finding an interesting product or doing a search, you can use the sites that compare prices .
A good site to start from is the well-known and reliable Trovaprezzi.it which aggregates the catalogs of some of the main online shopping sites.
Trovaprezzi is also a convenient application for iPhone and Android that serves to compare prices when you are already inside a real shop or at the mall.
The mobile application is also convenient because it lists the products with the most substantial price drops every week which, therefore, become good deals.
Another site for checking prices and looking for products to appear online is Google Shopping.
Google Shopping also has results from Ebay.
Another site to check prices is Twenga which is the site with the largest list of online stores.
A very good site to find the products at the lowest price on the internet is Pagomeno, Italian, which for each online store shows the status of reliability and which also has the graph with the price trend over time for each object searched.
To check prices from mobile phones, we recommend the Idealo application which is perhaps the best in Italian for iPhone and Android.
Idealo also has the barcode scanner to find product information without writing anything, photographing only the barcode on the product packaging.
You can then scan the products while shopping to be sure to find the most advantageous offers possible.
The Amazon app (Android and iPhone) is also to be kept in the mobile phone so you can make comparisons between the prices of the main sites to buy online and the actual store where you are.
The Amazon app has the barcode scanner function to scan the barcodes of any product and see what the price is on Amazon.
For example, if you go to Mediaworld or Trony and want to buy a router or other object, you can check live what price, the same product, has on Amazon.
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Offers and coupons
Finding offers and coupons online has become more of a hobby for many people who, in order to take advantage of a discount, buy things even if otherwise they would never have been purchased.
We must distinguish then the sites that allow you to buy online with coupons and those instead with the discount code to be printed.
The first category includes discount sites, coupons and offers such as Groupon .
In the second category are the sites with discount coupons and coupons to print, among which we mention Codicesconto.
Also worth mentioning is the Solocoupon site which lists all the promotional codes to be used in online stores .
On the main page you will find the latest published coupons and expiring coupons.
To stay updated on all the offers of the various online stores, you can subscribe to the feed //feeds.feedburner.com/solocoupon which allows you to see the offers in a list and stay updated at all times.
Staying in the feed field, if you like the idea, you can receive offers and proposals from other online stores such as Amazon and Ebay
With Amazon, you can subscribe to the feed to stay updated on bestsellers and other rankings.
For example, you can click on the RSS Feed link located at the bottom of the book bestseller page.
Ebay instead added a tool to organize my feed on the main page.
You can also add the Ebay day offers page to the RSS Feed reader to stay updated in real time on the discounted products of each day.
Some web applications such as Feedly can be used to read and collect feeds .
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If you have other tips or tricks to save money on online shopping, let us know in a comment.
