There are a lot of different places you can get a PS3, but right off the bat I’m going to recommend that you buy one online for several reasons:
- There’s no good reason not to. Unless you need one as a birthday present for someone who’s birthday is tomorrow (and even then there’s overnight shipping) and you can actually find one available locally, there just isn’t a good reason to prefer buying one over the counter, and there’s usually a lot of good reasons not to do that (keep reading).
- You’ll tend to get better deals and better bundles online.
- You generally will not pay tax if you order online, whereas you definitely will unless you live in a state without sales tax (there are 5: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon)–this will almost always make a big difference in the price: if you’re paying $300 for a PS3 (that’s about the minimum you’ll get a new one for right at this moment) plus a 5% sales tax (relatively low–it’s higher than this in most states) that’s an additional $15 you’re paying that you wouldn’t have if you would’ve ordered online. But, I hear you saying, “you’ll pay for shipping and that will end up negating the money you would’ve saved by not paying tax!”: probably not. A lot of places, like Amazon, offer free shipping.
- As I previously mentioned, you often won’t pay for shipping by ordering online.
- You won’t have warranties and other crap you don’t want pushed on you by sales people.
- You’ll be able to use coupons (keep checking back here, I’m going to post any I can find, but also use Google) that you wouldn’t have been able to use in a store anywhere because coupon codes are typically online-only.
I disagree, mainly because the treatment I see given to packages when individually delivered. The worse treatment prize goes to UPS but I’ve seen FedEx boxes also dinged up. I don’t think its a good idea to have a sensitive compact electronic device tossed over and dropped in your front door. At least in a store you can choose and clearly see that the box you’re choosing is not banged up.
Well delivery in the mail can’t be worse than how it arrives at the store. I work at a retail store in the warehouse and you wouldn’t believe how badly they pack those semis, TVs all jacked up, heavy washers on top of small dryers, ups and fedex generally aren’t to blame, its the initial warehouse the product was shipped from.
so you all are sayin dat i shouldnt buy online the way the boxes are treated?? i ordered a game and ups delivered it with da bubble sheet as the protection. should i buy it or not online
Good site, where did you come up with the knowledge in this piece? I’m happy I found it though, ill be checking back soon to see what other articles you have.