Checking out online? Don’t forget coupons!

For those who like to shop online, it often occurs when checking out that there is a chance to enter a coupon code before the final sale transaction is completed.  Its often worth checking to see if you can find a coupon.

Today I ordered a $20 fitness apparel item and was able to get free shipping on my order just by entering a coupon code.

The site I found which had a working code was retailmenot.com.  If one just does a search via search engine for coupon codes for a particular online store, one will likely obtain a large number of matching results.  But in this day and age of search engine spam and other types of scams its wise to be skeptical of many of these sites.

I ended up trusting retailmenot.com because I believe they are related to another site which was popular some time ago called bugmenot.com.  There was a time in the evolution of the Internet before where all sorts of separate sites required passwords to participate, comment, contribute, or gain access of some kind.  But then each individual site started requiring users to register and login to their site in order for such access.

This was rightly seen as a major annoyance by many, and bugmenot.com’s raison d’etre was to save users from having to go through the cumbersome registration process by openly providing working login/passwwords to websites.  Visitors could search for a site they were visiting or even contribute their own login/password for others to use.

At any rate, both these sites seem to have been run by reputable, upstanding people and today I managed to save 25% of an order using a coupon code.


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