Monthly Archives: August 2009

JetBlue and United offer ultra cheap airline tix via Twitter

Posted on August 3, 2009 | Leave a comment

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Looking for a quick, cheap getaway? A bargain may be just a tweet away.

JetBlue and United airlines are offering their Twitter followers first dibs on some discounted fares, using the uber-trendy form of messaging to quickly connect with customers and fill seats on flights that might otherwise take off less than full.

Like the e-mails that many airlines began to send out in the 1990s, tweets are presenting a new, faster way to promote sales. And in fitting with this latest mode of instant communication, travelers have to decide quickly whether to fly.

JetBlue posted its first “Cheep” on July 6, a $9 one-way trip from JFK to Nantucket. Since then the carrier has generally notified Twitterers about sales on Mondays, giving them about eight hours or as long as there are available seats to book a trip for that or the following weekend.

For the full article, visit:

http://m.usatoday.com/604606/news/;jsessionid=0C306FA7BE25A80848DA7407BD5AFE27.wap2

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TIME – In the Recession, Shoppers Are Becoming Hagglers

Posted on August 2, 2009 | Leave a comment

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Think you should haggle only when buying a car or shopping in the streets of Morocco? In this recession, if you’re not bargaining for everything everywhere, you’re needlessly draining your wallet. According to the consulting firm America’s Research Group, in October, 56% of consumers said they had recently tried to negotiate at retail outlets other than car dealerships. Of those hagglers, 50% got deals. When the company repeated the survey in May, 72% of consumers said they had tried to haggle, and a stunning 80% were successful. “What you can do today is unbelievable,” says Herb Cohen, an expert dealmaker and the author of the 1980 classic You Can Negotiate Anything. “Americans may finally learn that price tags weren’t put there by the big printer in the sky.”

Read the whole article, with haggling tips, here at Time.com: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1913774,00.html

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