Kdollar.com Deals Blog

It seems everyone else did, in ‘06 online merchants had a huge year as there was a 25% increase in shopping online from last year. (Reported by Cnet). In the months of November and December $24.6 billion dollars was spent online. This beat analysts expectations and has been a shock to many online merchants who saw their traffic spike during the holiday season. What does ‘07 have in store for us? We will see as the new year comes in the next couple hours.

Walmart is having a secret sale this Friday starting at 8am. The sale is in-store only. This maybe a preview of what items Walmart will have on sale for Black Friday. On the walmart secret sale page it does say that some Walmart stores are excluded from this promotion.

Secret Sale Items:

Sanyo 50″ Plasma HDTV $998
Acer Laptop 1GB Ram - $348
Toshiba HD-A2 DVD Player - $98

Other Not So Interesting Sale Items

Fisher Price Nascar Ride-on - $144.72
HD DVD’s - 14.96

With the announcement that the iPhone 4gb will be discontinued they have slashed the price from $499 to $299. If you are looking for a bit more space then you can buy the now cheaper iPhone 8gb’s which dropped in price to $399. It looks like early adopters aren’t quite as happy as everyone else who didn’t take the plunge a month and a half ago.

Threadless shirts is having a back to school sale where they are selling all the t-shirts on their site for $10 dollars. The deal runs from Monday (August 27th) to Monday (Sept 3rd). Threadless has a huge amount of T-shirt designs because of their ongoing design competitions where site visitors are able to submit their designs.

If you are in the Bay Area (San Jose, San Francisco) and are looking for golf clubs or golf accessories check out Proline Golf. They are in Milpitas, CA and just opened a month ago. They are offering 15% off everything in the store to first time buyers. This includes clubs, bags, shoes, balls…. I compared prices with online stores and they were beating those prices with their sale. I just got a new Callaway irons set and got an exceptional deal… They carry all the name brand clubs including Callaway Fusion, Taylor Made R7’s and more.

If you are looking for a wireless router then we have a deal for you. The deal is from Circuit City and is the Buffalo WHRG125. This wireless router is what we use after having problems with a linksys wireless router… (We did install a 3rd party firmware on the WHRG125)

The price is $34.99 after a $15 dollar rebate from CC but to make the deal ever sweeter you can use the $10 off mfg rebate and it will bring the price down to $24.99 AR.

This is one of the best routers to install DD-WRT which is a open source firmware for the router. It has many of the options that you would expect in routers that are hundreds of dollars. (We use this firmware and endorse it 100%)…Though you need to be techy to install it as there are some tricks to install it on the buffalo router. Once installed using it is easy and is very stable.

Starting today at Circuit City, you will receive double the Microsoft live points when purchasing only one for $19.99. You will get two xbox live marketplace point cards each worth 1600. They usually sell for $19.99 each but Circuit City is currently running a promotion that when you buy two accessories $19.99 and up, you will automatically save $20 dollars.

This deal is valid through August 4, 2007

With the recent $100 price cut on Playstation 3’s there have been some recent deals that online shoppers have come up with to get the most for your money. Right now, if you buy a Playstation 3 at Circuit City you will be able to add an additional wireless controller for free ($50 value)! You will also be eligible for 5 free Blu-Ray dvd’s that Sony currently offers for all Blu-Ray players bought after July 1st. (you will need to fill out this form to get the dvd’s)

Thanks to the members at slickdeals for finding this deal.

At the consumerist they have an article by a former verizon wireless sales rep. He gives some helpful hints on how to get the best deal at verizon.

1. Never Buy a 2 year contract - Buying a one year contract is only $50 more but you will be able to upgrade your phone every 10 months.

2. Buy accessories and get a free phone - An easy way to get a verizon rep to bring a phone down in price is tell them you will buy accessories (as they make a percentage of an accessories sale).  You can always return them later if you decide you don’t need the accessorie.

3. Insurance isn’t worth it - It has a $50 dollar deductable and doesn’t cover that many things…

4. Get a loyalty credit-  Ask for a loyalty credit of $60 dollars if you aren’t planning on using your new every 2. You may even be able to still use it when you buy a phone in store as most of the time they don’t check if you got loyalty credit.

On the entrepreneur they have an interesting article on a new way to shop online. It is called social shopping networks and they are gaining popularity. Sites that let users with your tastes like yours recommend products to you. One site that looks pretty promising is thisnext. Which lets you recommend and share products with other users on the site. Will this be the new shopping of the future? I am hesitant to say “yes” as do you really want to find more products to spend money on…