Monday, December 1, 2008

Beauty Supplies

By Jimmy Johnson

There are a number of ways to find beauty supplies online at wholesale prices. Products range from cosmetics to perfume to salon equipment and the prices are very reasonable if you take a little time to search. Buying beauty supplies online is a convenient way to access a plethora of products, but it helps to do a little homework first.

Before you run off and start searching, take the time to read this for a few tips to make it easier and faster to find what you are looking for. For one thing, you don't want to just find a beauty supply site and start trolling through it to find what you want. What will happen is you will get bogged down among the thousands of products available and either end up with a whole bunch of items that you never intended to buy, or you will get frustrated and end up with absolutely nothing. So try to stay on target while you are shopping.

What you need to do before you start is to write a list of the specific products you are looking for so you don't get sidetracked. Think of it like going grocery shopping with a shopping list, if there is no produce on your list then you know you can skip that section. Likewise, if there's no perfume on your list then you are less likely to get sucked into the vortex of perfume shopping online.

Try to spend some time comparing prices, instead of just choosing the first site that carries what you want. Look at one or two other sites that have the same product and see who offers the best price. This may be a bit time consuming, but otherwise you may end up paying more than you need to. Make sure you account for shipping in your calculations, it can make a huge difference, but we'll talk about that in a movement.

If this sounds time consuming, you are right, it is. There is an easier way though. Use an online shopping comparison site like BizRate.com to do the work for you. All you have to do is to enter a few key search terms for your product, and BizRate will find all the sites that sell your product and tell you who they are and what your product will cost. You can sort the results from low to high to see which beauty supply websites are offering the best prices. By clicking on a link in BizRate's site you will be taken directly to the seller's website and the product you are looking for.

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.

If you still want to buy locally then before you head out to window-shop and compare prices you may want to check out a site called Cairo.com which posts the prices of beauty items in your local stores online. All you have to do is enter the name of the product and your zip code and it will tell you how much the item costs if you buy it locally. Think how much time you will save! - 15995

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