My boyfriend and I were talking the other day about how he need to get an external hard drive. Simple enough...I referenced him to NewEgg.com as this is where I was referred to when I bought mine. The site is great: easy to navigate, consumer ratings and comments, variety of brands and options and best of all, great prices compared to any store he would find around here. Why NOT purchase his external online???
His response: There's no fun in shopping anymore...what's the point of going to a store when everything is cheaper online...I miss shopping when I can go to the store and LOOK at what I want to buy...it's taking out half the fun!
I was thinking about this, and it's totally true. Shopping online usually DOES have the best price. And like places such as NewEgg.com, the prices are significantly cheaper than any store we can find and usually there is no shipping. In addition, if you can be patient for 3-4 days, the shipping is pretty timely as well. But I do miss the days of spending too long driving around to stores to find the exact thing you want at the best price...but there is almost no point now. I'll go look because I can, but I usually end up buying them online anyways. Even Google has made it easier with their iPhone application: the Google Product Search. A person can literally stand in a store, enter the product they want and find all the prices and locations of where they can be found. Why would someone purchase the product in front of them when it's $50 cheaper on a website?
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