Online shopping tips and tricks: 5 ways to make best use of festive season sales

You can’t zip through all offline stores in your town, but with online shopping you can browse through millions of listings of all kinds of products you might want. As online shoppers, especially first time users gear up for festive buying, here are some ways to help you snap up the best deals and bargains from the comfort and safety of your homes this year. While shopping in festive season sales, you need to follow these tips to get the best deals, suggests Snapdeal:

Follow Social Media: 

One of the best ways to find out about promotions and deals is to follow your shopping sites and brands on social media like Facebook, Instagram. While you see deals and discounts from them all through the year, most e-commerce websites ramp up their social positing around big events like Festival Sales.

Plan ahead:

Make a list of things you want to buy and plan your budget.  It’s hard not to snap up everything and go overboard when there’s SALE written next to it. To avoid overspending, make a list of things you need, check out all the deals available on online to get the best prices , do your research on products you want beforehand to avoid losing out on precious sale time when there are  hundreds of orders being placed every second

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Shop early: 

The best of the stocks and products are available at the beginning of the sale. Prioritize your time to shop from online sales to avoid finding out your products from your wishlist are no longer in stock.

Go beyond brands: 

Why pay Rs 1000 for a simple black t-shirt and a pair of shorts for your work from home, when you can get it for less than Rs 500? With good quality options available from smaller manufacturers and regional brands , now discover the joy of street shopping online and get more value for the money you spend. Three t-shirts at the price one, definitely rings in more value and gains.

Combine deals and discounts to maximise saving: 

Always check if the website that you are buying from, allows you to combine deals, discounts and promo codes, and use them in the right order at the checkout. For example, for some products on Snapdeal using promo code “DUM 350” can  get you additional discounts, on marked down prices. You can even get cashback by using your wallets or linked bank accounts.