Just before Christmas everybody is holding on to their wallets like a virgin to their panties.
I’m no different. But now that Christmas is over, we survived the holy season with just a few additional dents in our bellies and thighs, our friends and family are happy and well fed, it’s time to fulfill ourselves some wishes.
My boyfriend and I have been talking about purchasing a new laptop or tablet for quite a while now.
While he’d like a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (please click here to see one of those wondermachines), I don’t have a clue what he’s talking about. All this talk about GB’s, RAM, SSD and whatnot sounds like gibberish to me and quite frankly makes me nauseous. So I put him in charge to find the best bang for our buck.
After tossing the idea of a new laptop or tablet around for quite a while and reading loads of reviews on the internet, today we decided to go for it and actually purchase.
Braving the thousands of people who had the same idea we went into Best Buy and educated ourselves on this topic.
After seeing many items,reading and talking a lot of gibberish and me mostly being confused we chose to buy the HP Envy.
(The Surface Pro (the kind we want) is just not in our budget right now.)
With a screen size of 15.6″, touchscreen, all the right gibberish and a price of $1099.99 it’s a good deal compared to other brands and specs. And considering this HP model was released only 2 or 3 months ago (according to our sales guy Adam).
Unfortunately we weren’t able to purchase as they weren’t available. Neither in store nor online. 😦
Now my frugal me comes out and whispers that we should check out other options as we were bummed not being able to take this beauty home right away, although we already picked a nice bag for it.
Now it becomes interesting:
Back in the truck I decide to pull up my EBATES App.
With this App you earn cash back of your online purchases and even on In-Store purchases if you connect your credit card with it. You’ll get alerts of the deals they offer when in store. It doesn’t only sound great,it is.
If you sign up now and with this link you receive a $10 bonus on your first purchase.
I am already awaiting my first cheque of about $90, just for shopping online twice and purchasing things that I would have bought anyway.
So I checked this App and received 8% cash back for my purchase in the HP online store. Plus HP is offering an $125 -OFF Coupon until January 2nd 2017 on your purchase. (Limitations may apply).
The Coupon Code is:BWKPC125
That means with $125 OFF plus 8% cash back I saved incredible $202.29 with just opening 1 single App.
If this doesn’t get you excited, I don’t know what will. 😉
Of course I still wasn’t able to take the Laptop home right away but what is a few days waiting time considering these savings.
Sorry Best Buy for not purchasing with you.
Thank you HP and EBATES for making my day!
If somebody from HP or Microsoft is reading this, we will be happy to write a review about your products. Just send us the product you want reviewed. We’d still need a external Blu-Ray-Reader/Burner and of course a Surface Pro 4 with i5 or i7 Intel processor and at least 8 GB RAM. My boyfriend knows the gibberish and I can write, so we are certainly qualified as a team! 😉
Thanks for reading and I wish you a Happy and healthy new year! I’ll see you there!
Prettylilsomethin 