Posts Tagged ‘shopping tips’

Six Questions before Shopping

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Dizziness because every payday money received quickly disappeared somewhere? Perhaps, it’s time for you to shop more abstinence. However, a number of small purchases if stacked would result in large par to break the bag.

From now on, each will make a purchase, first ask yourself the following questions:

1. Should it be purchased?
Think again, what you do have to buy the goods or can borrow? Today few people do not exchange (swap) a type of goods, such as fashion swap to exchange items with friends a bunch of fashion.

2. Is that the best deals?
Before making a purchase that break down the bag, it is worth comparing the price of the same in one store to another store. Perform the same trick if you make a purchase online. Do not hesitate to bid price and ask for a discount, especially if you buy in large quantities.

3. Are you emotional?
If you’re tempted to spend money to go shopping, consider whether the mood is not good. Research shows we tend to spend more money when you’re emotional. So, better to go back home to think again and sleep, before deciding whether you really want to buy the object.

4. Are you tempted to discount?
Do you really need a pair of black trousers for the office, or whether you just tempted to buy it because the temptation discount? Sometimes, we are tempted to buy something because the price offered was so good, so unfortunately missed. How else to pull the offer, do not buy something if you’ll never wear it.

5. Do you like and need?
Do not make a purchase before the answer to both questions is’ yes. ” If you’re not really stunned and needed something, better do not try to buy it.

6. Whether you can afford?
If you do not have savings in banks or excess funds to purchase an item, undo those intentions. No matter whatever goods are cheap, it’s better not waste your money.

Efficient and Smart Shopping

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

In addition to meeting the needs, some people sometimes spending as well as finalize the desire to shop alone. So consequently, the budget for expenditure is often missed.

Here are tips for having smart shopping.

1. Make a shopping list for items needed regularly every month in accordance with a monthly budget that has been made.
2. Always carry a shopping list every time you shop and stick to it! It is important to avoid buying unnecessary items.
3. Get used to go shopping on a regular basis such as every one or two months based on the “needs” and not “will” even if just for a walk.
4. Shop at wholesale center than in the mini market. In addition to variety of goods available are incomplete, the prize usually more expensive.
5. Buying goods with higher numbers will be more profitable because it is cheaper. This of course can only be done if your cash flow allows.
6. Do research to find places to shop that always give the cheapest price and often promote. Who knows you get the stuff that happened to you want to buy at low prices.
7. Shopping smart choose good quality goods at economical price. Feel free to use generic products for use every day such as cleaning the floor for example.
8. Do not forget, choose places to shop that gives free parking will add value to your efficient shopping.
9. If using a credit card, make sure you can fully pay off on time.
10. When tempted, remember always “Spend less = save more”, the more you save, the sooner our financial goals achieved.
11. Shop smart! Choose the goods with good quality and price are looking for the cheapest goods. It’s not funny, buy cheap sandals 25 thousand, but each week and then buy again broken. Why not choose the price of 100 thousand, but it can be preserved for months.
12. Still with smart shopping! If you have a credit card, check on your bill, you’ll find a number of points from the use of your credit card. change point is appropriate availability and your needs.
13. And about shopping with a point, in Indonesia also have an online store to shop with a point. Goods in sell variety of TVs, mobile phones, computers to motorcycles. How to buy it so easy! Simply register as a customer with a Rp. 50.000, – and set the status of your customer. And recommend shopping easy and intelligent it to your colleagues. Every one colleague you recommend joining a subscriber, you will get 1 point. Collect number of these points and redeem the goods you’re interested and you need.

Shopping in Balad, Jeddah

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Not like Mecca and Medina, the city of Jeddah is known for its rich tourist and historical sites. Richest city in the Middle East and Western Asia is better known as the trade area and shopping centers. Shopping tourism lovers can browse the various shopping areas that offer various products with different prices in the city located on the shores of the Red Sea.

One area that could become a paradise for shoppers is to Balad. In addition to having high-class shopping center offering the latest products from leading fashion brands from Milan and Paris, the old city area in Jeddah is also packed with traditional and open-market traders who offer a variety of fashion products and souvenirs with a relatively cheap price.

At night, this shopping center crowded by visitors. The density of the shopping center located in the Corniche area culminated during the pilgrimage season since taking the pilgrims usually come to Jeddah to buy souvenirs.

Carpet, abaya (traditional dress of Arab women in black-red), various brand perfume with unique packaging, prayer beads, prayer rugs, watches, leather goods, hoods, pasmina, to eye shadow and Hena can be purchased at the shopping center every time came close a few prayers today.

Most of the goods sold in this market are imported from other countries such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and of course China. Almost all products sold in the market souvenirs Balad, including prayer beads and calligraphy, are imported from China. Imported goods from China are the average sale price is very cheap and wholesale. Unit price of stone beads of different colors only one riyal and the unit price of different skin wallet only between 10 riyals to 15 riyals.

In Balad, the selling price of each product varies according to its quality and negotiable. Some traders also can speak Indonesian though limited in numbers so that visitors from Indonesia who could not speak Arabic can still make a bargain price.

Among all stores in Balad, Ali Cheap Shop is a store of the most widely visited Indonesian pilgrims. Although the name Ali Cheap, but the price of goods sold in this store is actually relatively more expensive than the price of goods at another store.

Simple Abaya at other stores sell for 35 riyals to 40 riyals, in a shop Cheap Ali offered at 60 riyals.

Indonesian on average to shop in this store because the transaction can be done with the Indonesian language. All the waiters at this store Indonesian people, shop owners also fluent in Indonesian.

Know What kinds of Watch You Need Before Buying

Friday, October 1st, 2010

The desire to have something sometimes unstoppable. An urgent desire often blinding logical mind, then be someone consumptive.
Not least due to the wishes of those who want to meet the lifestyle eventually regret that items purchased were not used because it does not suit your needs. To avoid such incidents, it’s good to know the types and kinds of watches.
1.Analog watch is the oldest type of clock. Types of these watches have a three-needle time, which is showing signs of hour long needles, short needles for minutes, and a thin needle to second. ”
2.Digital watch is showing the time with digital numbers, using the system (LCD liquid crystal display).
3.Ana stands for analog-digital, where this kind of watches have either an analog clock or digital.
4.Quartz watch is a watch that uses a quartz mechanism, which is a type of quartz crystal that serves as an energy source that hour. The advantages are quartz watches that leads to accurate and time with very affordable price.
5.Automatic watch also known as self-winding watch. These mechanical watches do not require a battery for driving source of these hours. When the hour is imposed, every movement sipemakai will move a rotor component (looks like a disk) that is always spinning on the axis axis. The rotor will generate energy which is then distributed on a per to save power so that the watch will always work as long as charged.
6.Water resistant watch is a watch that has a certain resilience in the water. Each water resistant watch has a limit of endurance in the water depth varies.
7.Chronograph watch is a watch that has three buttons at the right side. Top button is used to measure the seconds that can measure the speed of up to 1 / 100
(Hundredth), sec. Then the center button serves to set the hours and minutes, the same as a regular on the watch. While the bottom button to stop the second function is turned on by the top button and turn it to its original position, namely at number 12.
8. Luxury watch is exclusive watches are made with high quality materials, such as gold, platinum, diamonds and other precious stones. To compensate for the outside view, usually watch it also uses a complex machine with hundreds of small parts. Users are usually from middle to upper class.

Shopping Clothes at Low Prices

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Clothing product margins are higher, because of the high cost of care or service. When shopping at the boutique clothing, we usually can find a fitting room, beautiful decor, and friendly store clerk who serves. Indeed more comfortable, but comfort must be purchased with high-margin goods that it had. That is why discount on items also usually larger than a food product.
What is your goal to buy clothing, whether it is a party dress, work clothes or Moslem? Want to be like the artist, dressed in trendy continue? Or style general models are more season, or dressy clothing ignored me home. Everything has a price. For those who wear Muslim clothing can be stylish too trendy.
Super stylish trendy, we would become the center of attention. Many talked about, on condition we have to dress models most new clothes every time. Of course, was that the cost burden. Cost is high.
General style will be much cheaper. The model is still new though not the most brand new. This group of people can still shop the new items “through mode” one-two months. Stores usually start to discount a new item that was not sold within one to three months.
Group of people dressed in cool clothes should be able to get a cheaper price or very cheap. Many items are considered to have passed by fashion discount shop sold a decent amount. Moreover, the goods have entered the category of goods clearance or slow-moving goods, discount can be above 50%. You choose which one, please fill in your own.

Habit of treating clothing boutiques are not the same things right. But for clothing products that have passed its time, especially goods that have long slept in the warehouse are usually sold at a discount.
There are at least three things that really count in the discount fashion shop. First item is past models, usually if one to three months from the displayed items are not received, then it started to apply a discount price. The second group is defective, for example, the size of the stitches are not symmetrical or not perfect, although on the face of an invisible disability. And the other is the death of goods at the end of the year is still stacked in the warehouse. This discount can be great bargains discount alias.

The clothes are priced relatively less expensive type of clothes that fall into category Basic. Into it, including work wear clothing or pants with a brand that has been widely known. Cheaper prices for bulk are produced. Clothes do not know any of this type through mode or “is not the time” because it did not recognize the season. Choose clothing that can mix and match, can be set-pair, which when added all the accessories like we have lots of clothes.