Christmas In The Net

It's that time of the year again and I find myself shuffling through store after store trying desperately to cross out names on my Christmas list. I think I almost got it down, now. But once again, I'm reminded of just exactly why I love Quixtar so much.

Look, this is a pro-Quixtar site, all right? Let's just get over that little factoid and move on away from all of the eye-rollers who shouldn't be here in the first place. I'm at the local Super Walmart today, grabbing groceries and I go ahead and stop by the electronics department to pick up a wireless Gamecube controller for my buddy. I see a power adapter for a car there, same wattage as we have on Quixtar, except it's 2 dollars more than ours. I know it's not big, but in an age where every little bit counts, $2 (and more if you consider I get money back from my purchases as well as IBO discount) is plenty for me to change my buying habits. Of course I can't really speak since I was at Walmart but they just don't ship frozen chicken fast enough, yet.

Besides, my upline, mentors and diamonds have even come out and said that there's no shame in buying elsewhere. If we don't have what you want, then it only makes sense to keep shopping onward until you find it. But this is beside the point. Once again, I've found another item that we beat in price and I'm pretty sure I could have found more (because I have in the past many times) had I looked longer. Doesn't matter, point stands.

So I'm waiting in line - key words here "waiting" and "line" and the woman ahead of me is bickering to the cashier lady how something that is marked $2.80 was advertised at $1.90 and so off they went, holding the rest of us up, and I got to thinking again (I know, the sky is parting, look! It's JESUS!) , this is also why I love shopping online.

When something is marked one price, I know that's the price I'm going to be paying at checkout. There is no arguement because it's already calculated from the front page to the web cart. I get to see the receipt before I check out, knowing exactly how much I'm spending and what I'm spending it on. And if I don't want to buy something when I'm checking out, there's no hassle or embarassment in leaving it behind. I simply replace the number with a 0 and "update cart" and viola! It's fixed! From far away I can understand how this sounds like a small ordeal, but it's not. It's a convenience. A huge one.

No lines! None! When I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go. I click "check out" and I'm done. The website (and most as of late) remembers my card so I don't have to go through all of that garbage. And in a couple of days it's at my doorstep. Do I have to wait for it? Sure, but that's why I practiced the least ammount of personal responsibility ever required of anything in life to make the order early enough and now I'm saved a couple of bucks in gas. Damn. I kind of wish I'd budget all of this stuff just to see how much I'm saving on this deal.

There's really no hassle and that's the greatest convenience of it. No bad attitudes from all-too-eager last-minute shoppers. No time wasted sifting through a dense lot for a parking space. No senseless traffic. And if something's out of stock, I know about it beforehand.

Give me a break. Too many people complain too much. Quixtar kicks ass Santa-style and that's all there is to it.

I'm still getting my tech gear from Newegg. ;)