Thank you FatWallet, you help keep...my wallet fat.
I don't think I've ever talked about FatWallet.com but let me fix that oversight right now. I do have a lot of "toys" but I normally get them for free, in some type of trade, at some type of discount, but I NEVER pay retail price for anything. What has helped me in my quest to be the stingy (yet cool looking) tech guy? FatWallet.com of course. If you think I spend every waking minute looking for new high tech there are just as many people out there looking for great deals. I have friends (you know who you are) who spend the better part of everything morning just scanning the "hot deals" forums looking for what's on sale, if there's a rebate or even if its free.
So yesterday in my stumbling around the interweb looking for great deals for Xbox 360 games (they are around $60 afterall) I saw that Strawberries Music and Video had Perfect Dark Zero, Project Gotham Racing and Kameo on sale for $29.99 a piece. A good deal but it gets better because when you buy the game you get a $20 per game rebate (by the way, the people at the store didn't even know about the rebate)! So those titles that normally cost $60 everywhere else, I picked up for $9.99 each. $180 worth of games bought for $29.97, after mail in rebate. Ah, the euphoric glee I get from saving money. I wanted PGR and then I have another money "hack" for the two other games (maybe I'll share that at some later time).
I didn't post about it sooner because I found out about it yesterday and not everyone has a Strawberries and I thought the sale ended yesterday. I have since found at that there are similar deals at Coconuts, the Wherehouse and FYE's (all part of the TWEC chain of stores) and the deal might run through Friday. My suggestion, call your local store to see if they have the $29.99 deal and then go purchase to see if you get the rebate. If not you can always say no thanks.
So getting back to the point of this story, if you're looking for the latest geat deals on almost EVERYTHING then FatWallet should be the first place you look. You never know what you might find.
So yesterday in my stumbling around the interweb looking for great deals for Xbox 360 games (they are around $60 afterall) I saw that Strawberries Music and Video had Perfect Dark Zero, Project Gotham Racing and Kameo on sale for $29.99 a piece. A good deal but it gets better because when you buy the game you get a $20 per game rebate (by the way, the people at the store didn't even know about the rebate)! So those titles that normally cost $60 everywhere else, I picked up for $9.99 each. $180 worth of games bought for $29.97, after mail in rebate. Ah, the euphoric glee I get from saving money. I wanted PGR and then I have another money "hack" for the two other games (maybe I'll share that at some later time).I didn't post about it sooner because I found out about it yesterday and not everyone has a Strawberries and I thought the sale ended yesterday. I have since found at that there are similar deals at Coconuts, the Wherehouse and FYE's (all part of the TWEC chain of stores) and the deal might run through Friday. My suggestion, call your local store to see if they have the $29.99 deal and then go purchase to see if you get the rebate. If not you can always say no thanks.
So getting back to the point of this story, if you're looking for the latest geat deals on almost EVERYTHING then FatWallet should be the first place you look. You never know what you might find.
posted by Dutch DeGay at 7:11 AM
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