Cheap First-Dibs

You may wonder what I meant by "Cheap First-Dibs" in my title but you will soon understand. The holiday season is coming around and everyone wants to find the best deals. Most of the time everyone else gets all of the good sales and you get left with nothing but the normal high-cost of whatever it was you were going to buy. Well here is what to do to have the "First-Dibs" of everything you want.

1. Look in the newspaper, on the internet, as an employee, call the store, or do whatever you need to in order to find out when everything goes on sale. Specifically whatever it is that you want.
2. Now that you know when the sales will start, find out what hours the store operates. Not just for the sales date but for a few days before that too just to be safe. Example: The sales date starts out on Friday the 24th, find out the store hours for Wednesday as well as Thursday specifically. Mainly you just need to know the previous day.
3. Now that you know the sales date and the store hours here comes the actual going-out-to-buy part.
4. Go to the store about an hour or an hour and a half before closing time. When the time is getting pretty near to an end make sure you seem really interested in you product. Maybe even ask one of the store employees to help you out.
5. Take as much time as you can to delay your purchase for the method in which this process works is not full proof or guaranteed.
6. Make sure that when you purchase the item, it is past the hours for the store. [Example: The store is open from 8am-10pm. Stay and finally make your purchase at around 10:30 or so.]
7. Now hopefully everything will work out and you will have purchased your item at the sales price for upcoming sale.

--How it works/Own experience--

This is how it works. The store computers are programmed to sell at their normal price during regular operating times. This would mean that if the store is open on a regular day the price is going to stay the same from opening time till closing time. Typically it doesn’t change. However during holidays and similar events it does change. The key for me was finding out WHEN it changes. Most often the computers are pre-programmed to change on a specific date as to adjust for the sales. Well how I figured it out was like this. My family was looking to buy a T.V. and it was the Thursday before the 4th of July weekend sale. We went to the store near closing time and looked at all of our choices. Finally after closing time we had made our purchase. It was actually cheaper then the sale because the computers had changed to readjust to the sales weekend. So we got "Cheap First-Dibs" on the T.V. of our choice!

I can not say that this will work every time but it is at least worth a try!