It’s raining discounts all over the real and web markets.
Everything seems to be on discount and everyone claims selling at lowest price
ever. It’s all becoming so damn overwhelming and the next discount announcement
will make me nauseous. The discount percentages are also mind boggling it
starts at 50%off and goes up to 80% off. Sellers are complaining that it’s
getting unsustainable for them to offer such heavy discounts. But it’s not
making the buyers happy either. Every time I buy something I have the feeling
that I have made a bad deal I would have got the stuff somewhere else for a
lower price. The joy of getting something new is masked by the anxiousness of
making the right decision.
At first I thought I was saving time when I was shopping
online. I was saving time by not physically going to the markets and wandering
from one shop to another. But now I realize that I am spending more time while
shopping online. The amount of time and energy I am spending researching for the
deals of products that I don’t even want to buy is far much more than what I would
have spent had I gone to a market. I spend hours going through the website
window shopping and sometimes adding stuff to cart adding anything that like not
necessarily need. At the end of the numerous hours wasted I simply close the
window and forget about the cart.
Sometimes the websites remind me about the items in my cart
and sometimes they don’t either ways I rarely go back to the cart and buy
stuff.
Sometimes I really need to buy something and I spend not just hours but days researching about the product and then its deals and buy the stuff hoping that I have made the right deal only to realize the very next day that i could have wasted some more time and found a better deal.
All this is crazy. If time is money as they say, I am really wasting a lot of it shopping for things I don't need and in return getting some discount. The sad part is I will still continue with the madness because I feel I will be saving money.
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