Frugal Shopping: One CD and Five Different Offersby Mary Ann Romans | More from this Blogger 03 Feb 2007 07:01 PM Are you getting the best deal on your purchase when you shop? I'll show you how one CD can have five different prices and how you can find the best offer. I am always surprised that more people don't research their purchases before they buy. It is so easy to do in this age of the internet. E-mail offers, retail stores with web sites, and of course savings forums and the Deals Blog here on Families.com make comparison shopping relatively painless. Prompted by an offer from Borders in my e-mail, I decided I wanted to reward all of my hard work this past month with a new Nora Jones music CD. This is a rare purchase for me, as the last time I actually bought new music for myself (no Raffi doesn't count) was probably at least 6 years ago. But, I did well this month for working at home, and friends have been raving about the music of Nora Jones. I was looking forward to having some relaxing time to myself. But before any purchase, no matter how small, I like to do a little research. I needed to make sure that the Borders offer was really the best deal. Here is that new CD with five different prices, so you can see how a little looking around can save you as much as $12 on that Nora Jones CD! This is a hot CD, (she is dubbed the Queen of the Starbucks generation) so I knew I shouldn't have too much trouble finding it in for sale in different places. All of the prices I am about to list are for brand new CDs at regular retail stores. At the grocery store, the CD was offered for $21.99. Don't worry, I was only there for milk, since I am still doing my pantry challenge. The grocery store has got to be the worst place to buy CDs and DVDs, in terms of price. The Borders offer was a coupon bring their normal price of the CD from $18.99 to only $12.99 CDUniverse.com had the CD for $14.64 plus shipping. Since they specialize in CDs, I might have thought they would have the lowest price, but of course I was wrong. Amazon.com is selling the CD for only $9.99. Of course, there is still shipping involved, unless you either have their Amazon Prime service or will be buying at least $25 on the site to cancel out the shipping cost. Best Buy also offers the CD for $9.99, and they include a bonus downloadable exclusive interview. What is more, Bestbuy.com will ship it for free with no other purchase required. You can see how much the offers vary for this one CD. So google, visit the forums and keep your eyes open before a purchase to be sure to get the best deal. Related Articles: Do Those Book Reward Programs Really Pay? Learn more about Mary Ann Romans  Mary Ann Romans is a freelance writer, wife and mother of three children. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, the kids and a 16-pound cat. Relevantfrugal tags User Comments Memartha (306) 02 Jan 2009 05:37 PMThere's always eBay. I bought Patti Austin for $0.01 Community Tags deal, music, nora jones Discuss this article
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