Online shopaholic assistants: buy in one click and save

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

We will tell you about services and applications that help you make purchases on the Internet, search for the right products, do not miss discounts and keep track of your parcels.

Do you think that shopping on the Internet is troublesome and takes a long time? Let me disagree. There are tools that make remote shopping a pleasure. Some of them help to find the right goods, others - to save money, and still others - to keep track of parcels. However, first things first.

Are looking for

Asian online stores have a huge assortment. Multiply it by the number of retailers themselves, and the choice will make your head spin. It is almost unrealistic to find the best price for the desired item manually - you have to flip through hundreds of pages and compare dozens of positions. Go the other way: use a service that indexes goods in Chinese online stores, taking into account prices, availability and shipping costs.

If you prefer not AliExpress, but eBay, then you will surely like services that:

• help not to miss the appearance of the desired product on the site;
• looking for auctions without bids that are about to end;
• track negative reviews for sellers;
• find products for sale in a specific location.

Read more about these and other helpers at the link below.

In addition, there are services that allow you to buy things of your favorite brands, the right sizes and at the lowest possible prices. They work on the principle of aggregators, collecting information from their favorite sites and notifying about the appearance of the desired product. At the same time, they adapt to each specific user and socialize shopping.

We save

Amazon is the world's largest online merchant. Users prefer this site because of its convenience and wide choice, as well as because Amazon has profitable affiliate programs and a lot of discounts. It's a shame that, as a rule, stocks are only available to residents of the US, UK and Canada. But you can save money (monitor prices, use coupons, and so on) while in other countries. Special services will help.

One of the easiest ways to save money when shopping remotely is to use a promotional code. A promo code is a combination of letters and numbers, a "secret code" of an online store, using which you can get a discount on a particular product. There are many sites on the Web that aggregate information about promotions and discounts. You can find some of them in our selection.

Which discount aggregator is the best is up to you. We only advise you to test your favorites, as it once was a Lifehacker.

Tracking

Some stores send orders to Russia and the CIS directly, others do not. In the latter case, intermediary companies help out. They provide an address for delivery in the desired country, and then forward the package to the buyer. For information on how to choose an intermediary service and not overpay, read.

Regardless of whether direct delivery or through an intermediary, you need to monitor the movement of your parcel around the world.

The first way is to track the parcel through the official mail sites. But using them is often inconvenient: different interface, different languages. The second way is to track purchases using services and applications that collect information about the location of the package from various sources.

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

Marilyn Monroe

As you can see, buying on the Internet is easy and profitable if there are assistants in service: services and applications.

Finally, we bring to your attention a list of forums for online shopaholics, where you can get an answer to any question, and an overview of the best shopping apps.