‘Tis the season for spending … and retailers will try every trick in the book to get you to get you to spend even more. According to experts, these are the common tricks retailers use during the holiday season to get you to spend more money:
- Offering free shipping: While it’s awesome to score free shipping, it usually comes with a minimum spending requirement. If you only need one stocking stuffer from a particular retailer that means you will likely buy more stuff to score the free shipping, even if you don’t really want or need it.
- Massive holiday sales: Sadly, those awesome deals you think you’re getting are actually, in many cases, just over-priced items coming down a normal price. It only seems like a great deal because the original price was marked up so high!
- 0% financing offers: Planning to get a new TV or other high-ticket item for the holidays? Beware of 0% financing schemes, which often come with hard to understand interest agreements that might not actually be all that favorable for you. You’ve got to read everything and question everything.
- Holiday music: All that holiday music piping through the mall is intended to keep you in the holiday spirit and make you more likely to spend on gifts! (Buzz 60)
