Category: Deals

Amazon is the latest e-commerce retailer to offer free shipping on all pre-holiday purchases, regardless of membership status.

Amazon typically offers free two-day shipping to Prime members, who pay $119 for the privilege. Otherwise, shoppers must hit a $25 purchase minimum to access free shipping.

“All Amazon customers can enjoy free shipping with no minimum purchase amount on orders that will arrive in time for the Christmas holiday,” the company announced on its website.

It also noted that eligible items typically ship in five to eight days.

The promotion started Nov. 5 and is available “for a limited time.”

Amazon’s offer is likely in response to increasing competition from other retailers that hope to lure customers to their e-commerce options.

Target announced Oct. 23 that it would offer free two-day shipping to all online shoppers without requiring a minimum order size. That promotion began Nov. 1 and will continue through Dec. 22. Target typically has a $35 minimum order requirement to access free shipping.

Meanwhile, Walmart announced the same day that it’s expanding its free two-day shipping option to Marketplace items sold by third parties.

“In the coming months, you will see millions of additional items with the two-day free shipping label,” the company announced. Walmart.com will still require a $35 minimum order for free two-day shipping.

Customers in search of the best shipping deal for their online holiday shopping should watch the fine print for deadlines and restrictions that could delay delivery of those gifts

One Last Free-Shipping Hurrah?

These free shipping offers are enticing for customers, but retailers may not be so generous next holiday season.

The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a 9% to 12% increase for the parcel select shipping service used by Amazon for the last leg of delivery. FedEx also announced that ground and home delivery shipping rates will increase by an average of 4.9%.

These increases don’t go into effect until January 2019. But they surely have major e-commerce players preparing to adjust their shipping strategies or make up for the increase in other ways — potentially by increasing prices.

Source: The Penny Hoarder

Here’s the full list of the Echo, Fire, Kindle and other Amazon gear and their upcoming sale prices!

If you’re in the market for an Amazon Echo, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Kindle or the like, don’t buy it now. Because the Black Friday deals, they’re a-coming — and we’ve got the full list of what and when.

Amazon is kicking off its device deals starting Nov. 16, adding more items in the days leading up to Black Friday. Some of these prices rival Prime Day and some are even better.

Starting Friday, Nov. 16

A full week ahead of Black Friday, it’s all about the tablets:

• Fire 7 Kids Edition tablet: $69.99 ($30 off)
• All-New Fire HD 8 Kids Edition tablet: $89.99 ($40 off)
• Fire HD 10 tablet with Alexa Hands-Free: $99.99 ($50 off)
• Fire HD 10 Kids Edition tablet: $149.99 ($50 off)

Starting Sunday, Nov. 18

Ladies and gentlemen, start your streaming. Here come the Fire TV deals:

• Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote: $24.99 ($15 off)
• Fire TV Stick 4K with all-new Alexa Voice Remote: $34.99 ($15 off)
• Fire TV Cube with Far-Field Voice Control and 4K UHD/HDR: $59.99 ($60 off)

Starting Wednesday, Nov. 21

Here’s your shot at a Blink security camera system. (Blink is owned by Amazon.)

• Blink XT 1-camera system: $78.99 ($51 off)
• You can also get a three-camera system for $229.99 ($90 off)

Starting Thursday, Nov. 22

Happy Turkey Day! Here come the Echos and everything else:

• Echo Dot (second-gen): $19.99 ($20 off)
• Echo Dot (third-gen): $24 ($25.99 off)
• Echo (second-gen): $69 ($30.99 off)
• Echo Plus: $109.99 ($40 off)
• All-New Echo Show: $179.99 ($50 off)
• Echo Spot: $89.99 ($40 off)
• Amazon Smart Plug: $5 with the purchase of any Echo device ($19.99 off)
• Fire 7 tablet with Alexa: $29.99 ($20 off)
• Fire HD 8 tablet with Hands-Free Alexa: $49.99 ($30 off)
• Fire HD 8 tablet and Show Mode Dock bundle: $79.99 ($39.99 off)
• Fire HD 10 tablet and Show Mode Dock bundle: $144.99 ($59.99 off)
• Kindle Paperwhite (seventh-gen): $79.99 ($40 off)

Now for the big question: What gear will you be getting?

Source: CNet.com

Of the top Black Friday retailers that put out flyers every year, Walmart has always been a leader in the brick-and-mortar category.

The mega-store is known for offering deals on products in almost every category, from smart TVs to children’s toys. As such, it has become a one-stop destination for many savvy shoppers.

Walmart Black Friday Hours

11/22 – Thanksgiving Day – 6 PM to 12 AM

11/23 -Black Friday – 6 AM

Store hours may vary by state.

Walmart Black Friday Deals

This year, Walmart is making it even easier for buyers to snap up great deals by expanding its online retail offerings. Available as of November 1, shoppers can access a whole host of great deals, (which were made available to users with an “Early Access Pass” earlier this week).

These discounted items, which will be available from now up to Black Friday, are listed at up to 40 percent off regular prices. These deals also give us an idea of the kinds of sales to expect on Black Friday itself.

Featured items include:

• 82-inch Samsung 4K Ultra HD Smart QLED TV, on sale for $1,102 off regular price (you read that right)
• 64GB iPhone X with Free $55 Airtime, listed with a $55 discount

Anyone who has shopped at Walmart during Black Friday before knows that it usually brings forward incredible deals on TVs, cell phones from Samsung and Apple, laptops from HP, gaming consoles, and other home electronics. The retailer’s ad from last year delivered an impressive 32 pages of discounted products.

The company also has a habit of matching whatever the other major retailers offer; for example, Walmart will be offering free two-day shipping for orders of $35 or more, just like Target announced last month.

This goes for its sale prices as well as its offers on shipping and returns.

It’s unlikely that any other store will be able to match Walmart’s prices on smartphones, and the store has historically offered the cheapest large 4K TVs from notable retailers. If either is on your wish list this year, be sure to keep your eyes on Walmart as the next few weeks progress.

Doors open for the Black Friday weekend sale at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving night, November 22, though you can shop the entire day online, too.

Source: Digitaltrends.com

Airlines are not allowed to charter flights between two countries if they are not already based out of either of those countries.

That’s why you won’t find Delta selling trips between Canada and France, or Malaysia Airlines flying between the U.S. and England.

Except, as the Wall Street Journal notes, when a 1944 treaty allows it. “Some airlines are allowed to carry customers between two non-native countries, usually when a fuel stop is involved,” writes Scott McCartney, the Journal’s Middle Seat columnist. “It’s called the fifth freedom. Established with an international treaty in 1944, the nine aviation freedoms lay out what commercial airlines can and can’t do throughout the world.”

The other aviation freedoms outlined in the treaty deal with things like the right to fly over one country on the way to another, while the fifth allows a carrier to “sell tickets on standalone city-to-city routes in countries that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to operate in,” as long as it’s along a route that originates or ends in the airline’s home country, writes Airfare Watchdog.

And that means you might be able to find a bargain on a new carrier:

In many cases, these carriers offer better products, departure times, and overall service than their U.S. based competitors on these routes.

Especially in instances where you can choose an airline like Singapore or Cathay Pacific who regularly top the best airline awards over a local carrier’s offering.

Hawaii to Japan is a common route on these flights, though there are a lot of options, as Airfare Watchdog highlights. You could take a flight from Los Angeles to London or Tokyo operated by Air New Zealand, for example, or from New York to Milan or Athens via Emirates.

Singapore Airlines offers a “daily trip from JFK to Frankfurt to Singapore and back,” per the Journal. Singapore is the only airline that offers a flight from Texas to northern England.

You can find the flights on sites like Airfare Watchdog or by checking on the carriers’ websites, including Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Korean Air, and Singapore Airlines.

Source: Lifehacker.com

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A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.

I soon realised that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

But nothing the copy said could convince her and so it didn’t take long until a few insidious Copy Writers ambushed her, made her drunk with Longe and Parole and dragged her into their agency, where they abused her for their projects again and again. And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her.

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Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way when she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains

One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia.

Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline.

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A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.

I soon realised that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

But nothing the copy said could convince her and so it didn’t take long until a few insidious Copy Writers ambushed her, made her drunk with Longe and Parole and dragged her into their agency, where they abused her for their projects again and again. And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia

Because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown.

And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her. Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts.

Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way when she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains

One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia.

Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline.

This is an example of a WordPress post, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many posts as you like in order to share with your readers what is on your mind.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.

I soon realised that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

But nothing the copy said could convince her and so it didn’t take long until a few insidious Copy Writers ambushed her, made her drunk with Longe and Parole and dragged her into their agency, where they abused her for their projects again and again. And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia

Because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown.

And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her. Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts.

Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way when she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains

One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia.

Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline.

This is an example of a WordPress post, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many posts as you like in order to share with your readers what is on your mind.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.

I soon realised that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

But nothing the copy said could convince her and so it didn’t take long until a few insidious Copy Writers ambushed her, made her drunk with Longe and Parole and dragged her into their agency, where they abused her for their projects again and again. And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia

Because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown.

And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her. Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts.

Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way when she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains

One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia.

Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline.

This is an example of a WordPress post, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many posts as you like in order to share with your readers what is on your mind.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.

I soon realised that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

But nothing the copy said could convince her and so it didn’t take long until a few insidious Copy Writers ambushed her, made her drunk with Longe and Parole and dragged her into their agency, where they abused her for their projects again and again. And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia

Because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown.

And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her. Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts.

Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way when she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains

One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia.

Put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline.