Online Shopping Sale;
sample sales and sales alerts help you master online shopping

Searching for an online shopping sale can be tedious, and uneventful if you stick to the same old retailers.

Some retailers have sales twice a year, whereas others have promotions once a week!

There are many ways to take advantage of all the sales online. You can sign up for the designer sample sale services like Beyond the Rack or Hautelook. 

You can sign up to be on all your favourite retailers newsletters which is great for getting coupons, but clutters up your inbox!

Instead can sign up for a service that will send you emails at the frequency you wish telling you about all the sales available for the retailers you love. 

Designer Sample Sales

Designer Sample sales are where you can snag designer anything at a fraction of the cost. Items are limited and a sample size can run pretty small, but if you are looking for a deal it is definitely the way to shop designer. 

But now you don't have to live in a major fashion center to take advantage of designer sample sales because they have gone online.

Beyond the Rack is the Candian darling of the online sample sales. Just like offline quanitities are limited so you have to pounce. And its not just the amount of clothing that is limited so is time, sales usually only last for 24 hrs max.  But you can get designer clothing for up to 70% off!!

Want to check out what all the fuss is about? You can sign up for Beyond the Rack's online shopping sales here: www.beyondtherack.com.

Online shopping Sale Alerts

Another way to get some great deals online is to sign up for an online sales alerts service. 

Emails are sent daily (or the frequency of your choice) to your inbox with details of all your favourite retailers and brand sales.

One of these services is  Shop it to Me

I signed up for Shop it to Me and the service works great. I get an email every day and I find all the items for the retailers and brands I love ON SALE.

Plus Shop it to Me only sends me the sales for retailers that ship to Canada. This is a super feature because if I want to buy it there is no need to be disappointed that I can't get it shipped to me.

Shop it to Me even has a blog where you can get all sorts of fashion, beauty and wardrobe advice. Or check out the Trendsetters, the Shop it to Me partners that have related sites that you will definitely enjoy!

(pssst I am a Trendsetter too!)

Now you can follow your favourite online and off-line sales with a Canadian site - Salesaholics.com.

The premise is similar in that you get an email daily (or the frequency of your choice) telling you about your favourite retailers sales.

The cool thing is that you can tailor it to your city as well and the retailers are all ones that you can find in Canada or ship to Canada via their online shops.

Here are torontoShopoholic.com's additional tips for finding sales.

Know your brands and stores. If they have an online presence follow them on twitter, be a facebook fan and sign up for their newsletters. There are all sorts of deals to be found by doing this.

Follow US! torontoShopoholic.com is always blogging about our favourite sales. Check back often! Or sign up for our RSS feed, you can do that on our homepage. You can also follow us on Twitter and become our Facebook Fan!

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