If you are looking at treadmills for sale to compare treadmill models, prices, features and so on, why not first sit down with a pencil and paper. Work out a few things. Because without some basic information it isn’t easy to compare treadmills and get right result for you. There is no point in spending time doing a treadmill comparison without knowing exactly what you want.

There are some basic things to work out. Some of them are pretty obvious but, guess what, so many people don’t do them never less.

Firstly, work out your budget. It sounds trite, wouldn’t everyone do that? Well, no. There are plenty of people who spend some time trying to compare treadmills with each other and can’t really afford to buy what they want. Treadmills can range enormously in price. You can buy a basic model for less than $500, or you can spend many thousands. Work out what price bracket you fit into.

Part of this is to work out how important your treadmill is going to be in your life. Are you a fitness fanatic who I going to be on your treadmill 1 or 2 hours a day every day? Or are you just someone who has decided that it might be a good idea to do some exercise, and a treadmill seems like a good way to do it?

There are many who start out with all best intentions, and then fall by wayside once they find that exercise, even on a treadmill, isn’t necessarily all that easy to keep up. Plenty of used treadmills have been sold with very little use.

No point in trying to compare treadmills prices, models, features and so on if you are going to use it a couple of times and lose interest. If you feel that this might be you, then don’t even start a treadmill comparison until you have been down to local gym and used their treadmills often enough to be absolutely sure that you will be committed to using your treadmill once you buy it.

The best treadmill in world is no use in cupboard (if you can fit it in).

A “discount treadmill” can be any one of a number of things. And discount treadmills means different things to different people.

To some people it can just mean cheap treadmills. These are people who just want a treadmill, but don’t want to pay a lot. As long as it does job that’s fine. Nothing flash, just a cheap treadmill.

What are best ways to get a cheap treadmill? Well there’s a few and we’ll look at them in a minute.

To other people a discount treadmill is a new treadmill at a significantly reduced new price. It doesn’t have to be cheap, in fact they may well be looking for expensive treadmills, as long as they find them at discount prices.

Discount prices for treadmills are not easy to find, either for new expensive treadmills, or new cheap ones. The best place to find best prices for treadmills in on net. No doubt.

Why are there more discount treadmills on net? Think about this. A regular treadmill store needs to sell treadmills to someone who walks in door. So it needs to be close to customers. To be close to lots of customers it needs lots of stores close to lots of people. That means a lot of expensive buildings situated on lots of expensive real estate. That leads to high overheads.

An online store, on other hand, can have one large building to service it’s entire market. And where can it locate it? Cheap real estate. One building and cheap real estate add up to lower overheads. Hence that store can compete higher on price than a local store.

Many discount treadmills are sold direct by manufacturer to end user. This also cuts out one or more layers of profit between manufacturer and customer so manufacturer can compete even more on price, although if they also have other stores selling their products they need to be careful not to put their own distributors out of business.

So, if you’re looking for discount treadmills, then do it on net. How do you find best prices? Well of course that is age old question, and one incapable of complete answer. Because of course online business is business none less and all stores need to compete. On price as well as other factors.

However like regular business, there are opportunities to pick up a discount treadmill. Online stores have sales too. So if you’re prepared to wait and bide your time then you can pick up a good deal if you catch a sale.