One of
few universal traits in people is joy of finding a bargain. From rich and poor, young and old, east, west – you name it – thought of getting something below ticket price is great.If you want to get people to stand in January snow for six hours, then lop 50 per cent of your shop’s big ticket items. Even garage sales can pull in hundreds of people, despite fact that most of stuff is second-hand.
Human beings, it seems, have been hot-wired for bargains from year dot. So far anthropologists have yet to find evidence of a tribe who paid 10 per cent above odds. If they ever did exist, they all probably died out in debtors’ prison.
Even when people have more money than they know what to do with it, sense of a bargain usually prevails. Just ask Herb Kelleher, who founded no-frills airline Southwest. You won’t find him paying full price, and he’s not short of a few dollars.
Yet for all of that, running along side of our desire for a bargain is almost pathological dislike among many of us to spend a lot of our time actually looking for a bargain.
Sure, if it lands on our doorstep, we’ll grab it. And if we don’t mind queuing in snow, then that wide-screen TV is yours Sir for just $100. (OK, I jest, make that $50).
But when there’s a game on, or when you just want to hang out, hell, sure a bargain can wait. Except, of course, it rarely does. The early bird usually gets his bargain as well as a cheap breakfast.
So, what if you had someone who did queuing for you? Not only that, but what if they were not tied to vendor in any way and helped with possible pitfalls as well?
That’s where Bargain.com comes in, and we are not just talking fridge freezers here. This is big stuff: cars, http://www.bargain.com/fe/autos/ and houses, http://www.bargain.com/fe/homes/. Yes, houses - thousands and thousands of them, from condos to mansions, East, West, North and South.
