Thursday, January 1, 2009

Beauty Supplies

By Jimmy Johnson

Are you tired of paying the over-inflated, drugstore prices for cosmetics, perfumes and other beauty supplies? Join the club. Did you know that you can get discount beauty supplies, from makeup to perfume to salon quality equipment, all for way less than you would pay in a retail store? If you didn't know before, you do now.

Before you run off and start searching, take the time to read this for a few tips to make it easier and faster to find what you are looking for. For one thing, you don't want to just find a beauty supply site and start trolling through it to find what you want. What will happen is you will get bogged down among the thousands of products available and either end up with a whole bunch of items that you never intended to buy, or you will get frustrated and end up with absolutely nothing. So try to stay on target while you are shopping.

Rather than entering a search for "beauty supplies" or "wholesale beauty supplies" you need to narrow it down, or else you will get hit with thousands of sites that may or may not have the product that you want. By keeping in mind your product when you are searching you can quickly target onto the websites that carry this product and save yourself some time searching.

Try to spend some time comparing prices, instead of just choosing the first site that carries what you want. Look at one or two other sites that have the same product and see who offers the best price. This may be a bit time consuming, but otherwise you may end up paying more than you need to. Make sure you account for shipping in your calculations, it can make a huge difference, but we'll talk about that in a movement.

Instead of searching through separate websites for your product, you may just want to go to a site that searches all the sites for you, like BizRate.com. This site will allow you to enter your product and then it will search all the websites that sell your product and return the prices that they are offering. All you have to do is pick the one that has the lowest price, and BizRate can even sort it by price for you so you don't have to sort through them.

Another thing to consider when shopping online is shipping. The cost of shipping your beauty products can offset the savings of discount internet shopping very quickly. Many sites offer free shipping during specials and during promotions, but free shipping is actually quite rare unless you are spending a lot of money. The cost of shipping the item may be more expensive than the product itself.

There is an option for finding the most reasonably priced beauty items in storefronts without taking the time to enter each store, compare and finally buy. Cairo.com is a site that compares prices of products in your local stores. Just enter your zip code and the product you are trying to buy and Cairo provides a list of local stores that carry that item and how much they charge. This saves you a lot of footwork. You may be surprised at the savings you can make just by taking a little time to research before buying your beauty supplies. - 15252

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