Deals or No Deals!

Whew it's been a while, but now is the perfect time to come back and talk tech, "Tis the season" so to speak. This week we are going to talk about a few stores and websites that either have awesome deals for tech (among other things) or point you to where the deals are. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, everyone should know where to get the most bang for the buck.

Let’s start off with one of my favorite deals website: Woot.com. Woot has nine sections that range from technology to wines and you can always find something that peeks your interest. There are a few caveats to this website though with the first being the primary item is only up for one day in most instances with some notable exceptions, i.e. the Woot-off. The way they operate is that the primary item on the nine tabs is up from the beginning to the close of the day or it’s sold out, whichever happens first. Luckily the Woot Plus items are up there for a few days, normally 2-5 days. Now the fun really happens when the Woot-offs happen. A Woot-off is when the primary item for the individual tab changes to another item when they sell out. The longest one I witnessed went on for 6 days before I stopped counting. 

The next I want to tackle is Slickdeal.net. Slickdeals is a collector of deals around the web and its all community sources. Other user’s scourer the internet for deals and post them in a forum style interface. You can literally find anything tech or otherwise, on the site. I generally use it to background check other websites prices to see if I can find my tech cheaper. You do have to be a little careful as some of the vendors that pop up aren't exactly big or well-known ones, do your homework before you buy and you should be fine. If you get a chance look in the Freebies section, you never know what you might find.

The next two are technology specific sites and we are going to kick it off with Logicbuy.com. Logicbuy has been around for a while but I am relatively new (6 months-ish) to the, but the deals that they have on prefab systems and parts is hard to beat. They are also an aggregator that’s pulls the best tech deals from all around the web. What you really want to watch out for with them is parts. They have the best prices on part anywhere, especially solid state drives and graphics cards. If its hardware related go here first.

Last but certainly not least is one of my personal favorite sites, Microcenter.com. Microcenter is one of those chain stores that actually have deals and everything you could want from, a PC and Mac perspective, it’s where I got the laptop that I am writing this on. My favorite part is that the still have actual stores and you can purchase items online and pick them up at the store. This is beyond convenient when you have to have the part for your gaming build TODAY, but by far the staff make the experience. My local store has a section called the Build-it yourself corner, where they have staff that can help you with your issues as you build a PC. If you are lucky enough to have one near you, utilize this store, for the unlucky ones there is a web store so don’t fret.

To change up the flow for a second, I want to talk about another site that most of you probably haven't heard of its called Giveawayofday.com. Giveawayoftheday has free licensed third party software that you can download. Everyday they have a different piece of software that the "Give Away". I get a lot of my niche software here and believe me some of the things you will find here will make the daily trip here worth it.

I am sure that you noticed that I left major chain stores like Amazon out of this post. That is because everyone knows them. I wanted to give you a view of some of the lesser known but fantastic sites to make your PC or Mac dreams happen this holiday season. On a side note, I am still torn between a iPad Mini or a Nexus 7 as my go to tablet. Let me know what all of you think I should get and as always stay tuned, I might buy an extra to give away if I get enough buzz for it.

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