Monday, December 1, 2008

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.

You will want to know exactly what you are searching for before you start, otherwise you will just overwhelm yourself with all the different products and either end up with a bunch of stuff that you didn't want in the first place, or nothing at all. Online stores will try very hard to distract you with sale items and special discounts to get you to buy a bunch of products that you didn't even think of. It will take a lot of willpower, but you need to stay on track.

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.

You may want to compare prices and this can be difficult and extremely time consuming if you don't have a plan. You can eliminate part of the problem by indirectly shopping for wholesale prices. You can still find wholesale prices without entering the term "wholesale" into your search.

One of the best places to visit when trying to find the best prices for beauty supplies is BizRate.com. This site does the search for you. Simply enter your product in Biz Rate's search and a list of stores that carry the product immediately appears. This way, you don't have to enter each store separately. Another appealing feature of Biz Rate is the option of organizing your search according to price. You can request that the products be listed from the lowest priced to the highest priced. This helps narrow your search even further.

Before you go ahead and pick the site offering your product for the lowest price, check out the cost of shipping first. Some sites offer flat rate shipping, so if you are buying a small item you still may be paying more for shipping then if you go to a site that ships by weight. If you are buying several items then you will want to look for a site that combines shipping so you save over buying all the items and shipping them separately.

Some of us just aren't comfortable with online shopping yet, or think that it's a hassle. In that case do you start going from store to store to find the cheapest beauty supplies? Not if you don't have to! Check out Cairo.com which offers prices of beauty supplies from stores in your area. When you enter the product plus your area code it will give you a list of stores in your area and what they are charging. Talk about a timesaver! - 15634

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