Patience and non-emotional buying can save you money!
This week I was trying to purchase some sheets from Brooklinen.com and I became frustrated when they wanted to charge me ~$7.99 for shipping when I was already going to spend over $200 on their product ($228 to be exact). So I began googling “Brooklinen discount codes” and “Brooklinen free shipping codes”. There were a few floating out there via a google search but none of them worked for me at checkout.
So, I left my items in my online cart and continued on with my day. Then the next day I get an email from Brooklinen saying that I can get free shipping when I checkout.
I was too busy at work to go to back to the website to complete my checkout, so again, I ignored the email and put off my purchase.
Then, the following day (2 days later from when I had everything in my online cart ready to go but didn’t hit purchase) I get another email from Brooklinen for $15 off my order. This peaked my interest so I clicked on the email which took me to the Brooklinen webpage where my items were still in my cart.
However, to my surprise, it appears that the site was having a 15% off sale (+ free shipping). I am not sure if the 15% is due to the “reminder” email from Brooklinen or just happened to be a coincidence. But, it suckered me in and I finally completed my purchase with 15% off and free shipping.
Moral of the story is, if you can wait to make your purchase, discounts may come your way. Â Disclaimer that the savings and this savings tactic may vary by site. I suspect the company got my email, etc, when I placed my items in my cart and that they were able to track that I had items waiting but did not make a purchase. Waiting 2 days saved me $34.20!