How to Find Online Coupon Codes
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010One of the best ways to save money on an online purchase is to do a quick search for coupons or coupon codes right before you checkout. Unlike in a store where you’d have to have the coupon with you before you checkout, shopping online means you can abandon your cart for a while to search for a coupon. Fortunately it only takes a few minutes to do some searches to find if there are any active, valid, and available coupon codes for your purchase.
Whenever I do this, my first stop is to RetailMeNot.com. In minutes you can find out whether a coupon code is available for your store, of which they cover 65,000. One of the nice features of RetailMeNot is that visitors can vote as to whether or not a coupon is still valid, so that feedback can be important to know whether or not you should pursue a particular code. The last thing you want is to spend 30 minutes finding another dollar to spend (perhaps for a $10 off $100 code) only to learn the coupon is invalid.
If RetailMeNot comes up empty, do a search with Google. That will yield a treasure trove of coupon sites that might have a valid code you can use. Even if you don’t think a code exists, try looking it up because you never know. Even traditional brick and mortar stores offer coupons, for example Home Depot offers a ton of Home Depot coupons entirely online for free shipping, dollar off, free haul away, etc. I bet you didn’t know they even HAD coupons!
Finally, if you’ve searched half a dozen sites, tried RetailMeNot, and are still not able to find one… it’s possible one doesn’t exist. At this point you need to decide – buy it now or wait for a coupon? If you can wait, it often pays to wait for a sale or some other promotion. If you can’t, it’s time to pull the trigger.