Patience and non-emotional buying can save you money!
This week I was trying to purchase some sheets from Brooklinen.com and I became frustrated when they wanted to charge me ~$7.99 for shipping when I was already going to spend over $200 on their product ($228 to be exact). So I began googling “Brooklinen discount codes” and “Brooklinen free shipping codes”. There were a few floating out there via a google search but none of them worked for me at checkout.
So, I left my items in my online cart and continued on with my day. Then the next day I get an email from Brooklinen saying that I can get free shipping when I checkout.
I was too busy at work to go to back to the website to complete my checkout, so again, I ignored the email and put off my purchase.
Then, the following day (2 days later from when I had everything in my online cart ready to go but didn’t hit purchase) I get another email from Brooklinen for $15 off my order. This peaked my interest so I clicked on the email which took me to the Brooklinen webpage where my items were still in my cart.
However, to my surprise, it appears that the site was having a 15% off sale (+ free shipping). I am not sure if the 15% is due to the “reminder” email from Brooklinen or just happened to be a coincidence. But, it suckered me in and I finally completed my purchase with 15% off and free shipping.
Moral of the story is, if you can wait to make your purchase, discounts may come your way. Disclaimer that the savings and this savings tactic may vary by site. I suspect the company got my email, etc, when I placed my items in my cart and that they were able to track that I had items waiting but did not make a purchase. Waiting 2 days saved me $34.20!