November 13, 2024 • 21 mins
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – ‘Tech Thursday on Tuesday’ and an in-depth ‘Black Friday Preview’ with regular guest contributor; (author, podcast host, and technology pundit) Marsha Collier - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, Kfi Mo Kelly, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app and it's Tech Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On a Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Marsha Collier joins me in studio. We missed you last
week because other stuff was going on last week.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Overall, there's been so much stuff going on on this
planet that think about it. In the past three weeks,
it's been earthshaking almost every week.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, literally earthshaking with the number of earthquakes we've had,
and it's just been so much going on. But having
you back in studio makes it feel just a little
bit more normal.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Thank you, Mo. And I have to tell you I
love shopping and we all have the holidays ahead of us.
We all have to buy gifts Dewey, Yeah, okay, I suppose.
And there's white elephant gifts for work and there's things
like that. We all have to do this, and I
wanted to come here today to give you some tips,
(01:02):
give everybody a bunch of tips how to organize it,
because I have to admit I am the ultimate shopper.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, I'm glad to be joined by the ultimate shopper
because we have not only the holidays, we have office parties,
we have birthdays, like my birthday's coming up, so mine too.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So you have people that you may want to shop for.
Nurse Obviously, Black Friday are November twenty ninth that a
lot of people will be spending money on. Is there
a strategy that you employ to prepare to get the
best stuff at the best prices on Black Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I'm ready. First of all, I want to tell everybody
who doesn't know, Black Friday is called Black Friday because
in business, a retailer comes should come out of the
red on Black Friday. And then that's followed by Cyber Monday,
which which is Black Friday, is the Friday after Thanksgiving.
(02:03):
Then we've got Cyber Monday, which is the Monday after Thanksgiving,
and then there's a Green Friday that I'm not real
clear about.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I just people are just finding another way to get
you separated from your money.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So you have to plan ahead. This is the thing.
We're living in an economy now. We want our dollars
to go further. We want to buy nice gifts, and
we may not be able to afford to buy the
best and the greatest. I want you to go about
the things we talk about now and look for the
(02:38):
best you can afford. I don't want you to read
reviews on the internet. If you're at Amazon, I'd like
you to read what real people have to say, like
confirm purchases, Yeah, verified Verified. They may be fake too,
but I can tell you that everywhere I looked when
I was researching Black Friday, all I found were sponsored stories.
(03:02):
Buy this. We may have links on this page, so
we make money and I'm sponsored.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Explain for people who don't know when you say sponsored, Okay.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I don't do this, But what you can do is
you can get affiliate links, put them on your website
or share them on social media, and when someone clicks
that link, for example, they if you buy after you
click on their link, there's a code in it that
gives them a commission. And it used to be that
(03:37):
everything you bought for the next week. I don't know
if it's changed. It's just something I don't really participate in,
except when I give give a link to my books.
That's about it. But they get a commission every time
you click one of those links. So if you don't
want to give them a commission. You can just copy
the name of the product and paste it into Amazon
(04:01):
or the website.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Stop giving away all my secrets because I do it
all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Right, I mean you have to and you know it
doesn't hurt. Before you actually start the physical shopping. To
clear the cache on your browser for those.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Who don't know, cacche not cash.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And you can do that by going into the settings.
You don't have to clear out your passwords and things,
but clear out what's called cookies and cookies are left
on your computer, your tablet or your phone. To let
these websites, Oh they've been here already. Let's raise the price.
Let's jerk up the price.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
They wouldn't do that, would they. Because you're a frequent shopper,
you should get benefits for that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, one would think, wouldn't one. Okay, So what you
need to do ahead of time, and this is really important,
start making your list now. If you know what that
person is into, just put that next to their name.
(05:04):
Then maybe a dollar amount so you can budget how
much you're going to be spending for Christmas. Don't forget
the people you work with, don't forget the teachers, don't
forget people you go to church with. Just put everybody.
Am I going to bake cookies? Okay, that's in there,
but have your list ahead of time, and that way
(05:26):
you won't kind of be faced on Black Friday with
oh my, what am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Let me ask you this question, because customarily for me,
I almost buy nothing on Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
One.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm not going to go to a physical location, big
box retailer.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
That's out. I'm not dealing with that mess.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I will do a lot of shopping on Friday, which
I basically turn into a cyber Friday, and I'll do
a Cyber Monday. Aren't we at a point where just
about every retailer is making either as much money or
more money on Cyber Monday than the traditional Black Friday.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Well, actually it's going back and Black Friday is cyber
Now Black Friday has taken over. So you've got number
one being Black Friday. You're going to get like televisions,
you need a new television. I guarantee you the best
prices of the year are on Cyber Friday.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I don't need to so I don't have to drive
my ass down to Target and fight with people anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
No, and let me just tell you retailers most all
will be running sales. So, for example, if you want
to buy your college student child a laptop, go to
the ACER website, search the brand, but Amazon, Walmart, Wayfair,
(06:49):
Best Buy, Target, Adorama if you're familiar with them, be
an h their photographic and Electrical and home depot, Lows
Nordstrums are going to be running, blasting sales, just blasting sales,
(07:09):
and you know, you know how much money because you
start your list tomorrow. Seriously, it doesn't pen paper. You
don't have to put it on a computer because that
way you can stick it in your pocket and carry
it around with you. And if you want to add somebody,
you just add somebody.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Let me jump in there real quick.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
We know that people are more inclined to spend money
on Black Friday. Isn't it safe to assume that these
retailers just because are going to jack up these prices
and then say that they're offering thirty percent off.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And you just thank you for that, thank you for
that softball. Uh, there's a website called Camel Camel Camm
Camel cim e l c am E l c am
E l dot com. You can go on there and
they track a product's price over time on Amazon keep
(08:08):
other places, and they display the price history on the page. Also,
Honey as a price history for other retailers like Walmart,
best Buy. So use these things, and I know Honey
is something you have to install. I don't know the
(08:29):
people of a browser is. I think it's a browser extension,
and I don't like doing that. I don't like to
give away my privacy of my browser. So if I
did that, i'd install it and uninstall it asap. I
do that with apps all the time. But I use Camel.
Camel Camel in another window to check the prices, and
(08:51):
if you see a price that looks good, you run
it on. Camel can also do a Google search on
the brand and the serial number, and once you do that,
you know where the best price is. Go get it
before it sells out.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
You gave us a lot of information, But are there
any When we come back, I would like to talk
about some maybe shopping portals which are off the beaten
path that we should also give some consideration, other than
the eBay, the Amazon or the Walmart target.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I got your covered mode, all.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Right, it's later with mo Kelly. It's tech Thursday on
a Tuesday. Marshall Callier joins me in studio k if
I AM six forty Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
As Black Friday approaches, we have tech Thursday on a Tuesday.
Am I getting any more days? And the weekend? This
intro Marshall Collier. Last day we were talked about Black Friday,
some things to do in preparation and some dudes and don'ts,
tips and tricks. But I believe most people are inclined
to go to the Amazon dot com, the Walmart dot com,
(10:02):
the Target dot com, the usual suspects. Are there any
off the beaten path where there's not only a good deal,
but possibly a good portal to visit?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Well, I got you covered. I love bargain shopping. There's
a website called I'm going to give you a few
of them woot dot com. Woot dot com that used
to be a small, really funky community type website and
people loved it. It was great. They even have a
(10:34):
particular item that they have for five dollars called.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
A bag of crap, a bag of crap.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yes, and it's paper bag and you don't know what's
in it, and that'll show up on the page every
so often everybody dives in to buy it because sometimes
that's interesting. It's got really great stuff in it. Right,
how many years have I been chasing that?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
You just buy a bag of something sight unseen?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I've bought dollars five dollars and people get electronics. They've
been bought out by Amazon, so you know there's going
to be Amazon overstock there. There's going to be item
a lot of items from Amazon. They're going to be
bought out stuff from other places. So that's a really
great place to go. I'm my family. Unfortunately at Christmas,
(11:23):
I'll say, uh been shopping at uh Wood.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Huh oh.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It sounds like that'd be great for white Elephant gifts,
Secret Santa things of that.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
My husband bought one hundred toothbrushes for eighteen dollars, just in.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Case you run out of friends, Kirk, What are you doing, Kirt?
That's ae hundred too. Are you going into business now?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
They're going in stocking stuffers?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, okay, yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So here and I brought this one for you. This
is one called Brad's Deals br D S DEA L S.
And I've been shopping these people for ages and this
is the email they sent me Saturday, and you have
to go there every day to find the deals. Thirty
one dollar heated throw, fifty percent off toys at Coal's,
(12:12):
fifty dollars Oakley Sunglasses, Here's a French door air fryer
for sixty eight bucks. Food Network ten piece cookwear for
fifty five bucks plus a ten dollars gift certificate, Nike
Max XC shoes forty nine bucks, and sixty percent off
Ralph Lauren blankets. Okay, they send this email out regularly.
(12:37):
You go to their website and you won't believe what
you see. It's pretty amazing. My other favorite, no, these
are all These three are my favorites. And Slickdeals dot
com s L I C K D E A L
S dot com another one. They will peet when people
find deals on the Internet, they post it on Slick Deals,
(13:00):
so it's kind of like a Reddit for bargain shopping,
and you never know what's going to come up there
because people will post them, other members will verify them
say yeah, I got the deal. Good thing and you
get reviews. It's really a great site. So you've got
WoT Brad Steals Slick Deals. Then consider what's it called
(13:23):
retail me.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Not retail me not?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
They have coupons, which is I'm not a big online
coupon he so.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Either mine, I never have been. I just just give
you the deal. I don't want to hunt for the coupon.
And depending on a type of coupon, a lot of
them don't work. Have you noticed that, Oh yes I have.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I haven't had one work in forever. So basically I'm
going to tell you Brad's deals. You could also go
to Groupon coupon is actually a website still still yeah,
but Brad Steals Slick Deals and woot. Trust me on this.
You will get lost and the stuff changes every day.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Is this something that you would recommend specifically for Black
Friday or Black Friday and Cyber Monday?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
For Black Friday, Cyber Monday, general amusement. When you're lying
in bed and you want to see the deals. They
have the categories at the top of the page drop
down menu. Oh look, refurbished Apple products click, oh look,
Ralph Lauren sweaters click. You'll be surprised at the amount
(14:32):
of stuff you're going to see at these websites, and
why go any why pay retail? Not in these days.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I used to spend more than I should have on
overstock dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
That was my guilty pleasure.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I got divorced and redecorated my head Overstock.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There was something about Overstock, and this was many years ago,
now that there are other comparable websites.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, when Patrick's started it, I knew him, and his
goal was to have quality merchandise, good for the customer,
and great customer service. And they had it. They had it.
The prices were incredible and they had closed out items
from furniture and clothing. It was great.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
What happened was it just competition entering the marketplace other
places like woot offerings.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Wayfair wayfair wayfair I think was a big competitor.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I was getting ready to sing the jingle because I
love jingles, I know, but I won't do it.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But so other companies have taken that market share.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, and he isn't the CEO anymore. He founded the
company and ran away with his lots and lots of money. Yeah,
that's what It's not happening to me. But is it
happening to you?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
No, I spend more money than I make online.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
We have, so listen. I came up with some things
you may not have thought about. We know ties, we
know about sock sweaters, tracksuits, all good things to look for.
Right when you're buying tracksuits and stuff like that on Amazon,
I want you to check the fabric because some of
(16:14):
the new fabric is just garbage that they're selling on Amazon.
Try and buy from a brand you're familiar with.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I definitely agree. Use a brand that you know.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Exactly because you can trust. Yeah, you can always return it,
but why.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Who wants that headache?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I don't want that headache. Now Here are some items
that I think you might like. Ums. Okay, between two
and three hundred dollars. Do you ever think to have
a home theater with a ten eighty P projector No?
That may be a nice gift. If there's somebody you
want to spend between two hundred and three hundred dollars
(16:52):
to another family that you're close.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
To, Yeah, I don't like a lot of people for
that much money.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Neither do it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
If I want to spend two three hundred dollars on
you better be like living in my house.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Well, okay, remember about a year ago I showed you
that bird feeder with the camera in it and it
had a solar panel. It was called bird Fi brd
f Y. I'm still enjoying it. I like it. It's great.
I see the squirrels. It's just wonderful. You're gonna find
(17:21):
it from sixty dollars. They have incredible deals. I think
they sell them at Walmart now that it's become really
a big brand in the US. And I think that
we found him first. Good for us. Then how about drones.
Drones come in all sizes and prices. They have little
cameras in them, and they're fun to play with until
(17:43):
you break them.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So until you break them down.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah, I wouldn't spend a lot. My husband has gone
through a couple of large drones, and yeah, well we
won't be buying anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
First you've taken away his drone privileges.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Pretty much. AR smart glasses.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Augmented reality for those time.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I'm not talking about like the Apple one three thousand
dollars I bought my husband last year. This is not AR.
But there's a ray band excuse me, ray band bows.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I saw that I saw the commercials of that. That
scares me and also excites me. I know it scares
me because you never know when you're on camera at
that point.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Well, but there's one that's just a bluetooth for music.
So when you're taking your walk in your neighborhood or
you just want to be in your own head, put
on your sunglasses, turn on the music, and just walk
and that's all it does. And you can you can
get that reasonably online.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
And I have to say it is mind blowing. I
tried one of them on Oh You did the bust
thing that she's talking about. It is insane. How you
literally put it on and you can just hear the music.
You take it off, then you hear the crowd around you.
It's so it removes all like the ambient noise for
the most part. Won't you won't hear the bus like
getting ready to almost like you have earbuds in and
(19:10):
it's just the glasses and you're.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Gonna just plots. Because I got that on woot dot com.
I bought four of them as gifts as for ninety
nine dollars apiece, and I gave them to family members.
Now we all look like family now we all look
like the Blues Brothers.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Look.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I have to say that is brilliant product integration marketing. Yeah,
with ray Band, because no one was thinking about ray
Band in a technological sense.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Well meta, Their new ar glasses are ray Ban's also.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Look.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
All I can say is but I don't want to
camera in my glasses. I went through my stage of
doing that, and I don't care. How about a dash cam.
I just bought one for my cars under one hundred bucks.
Yes you can. What a great little gift.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Somebody you care if you want to set it up
for them. I got to watch out for the runners
out there. If someone's gonna flip me the bird, I
need it on a video.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I don't appreciate you trying to drag me into this,
but I would like to pair those glasses.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Please.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah you can find them, just just search for boats.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Don't hear from you? Please? You're talking about for free
from this?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Huh? Yeah. I had to pay for them.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I don't take a lot of free stuff, and I'm
offered a lot of free stuff because I always say
to them, if I don't like it, I'm going to
tell people. And you don't want that, so just don't
give it to me unless it's something I really want.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
In witch Man, you can tell the truth and there's
nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I'm sorry I'm out of time with you, Marshall Collier,
but also we'll see you again, probably before the holidays
are here, and I'm quite sure you'll have even more
good advice.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm going to save some deals for you because we'll
see each other before.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Thanksguy, Yes, so very quickly. We have woot, we.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Have brads deals, slick deals and retail me not. Yeah,
I'd stick with the top three. Okay, all right, that's
what i'd stick. Go to their websites now, get a
field for them, and you'll see where the deals are.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Marshall call You're always great to see you.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Always good and I love the holiday season, so let's
make it a grand one.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, Kfi Mo Kelly, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app and it's Tech Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On a Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Marsha Collier joins me in studio. We missed you last
week because other stuff was going on last week.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Overall, there's been so much stuff going on on this
planet that think about it. In the past three weeks,
it's been earthshaking almost every week.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, literally earthshaking with the number of earthquakes we've had,
and it's just been so much going on. But having
you back in studio makes it feel just a little
bit more normal.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Thank you, Mo. And I have to tell you I
love shopping and we all have the holidays ahead of us.
We all have to buy gifts Dewey, Yeah, okay, I suppose.
And there's white elephant gifts for work and there's things
like that. We all have to do this, and I
wanted to come here today to give you some tips,
(01:02):
give everybody a bunch of tips how to organize it,
because I have to admit I am the ultimate shopper.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, I'm glad to be joined by the ultimate shopper
because we have not only the holidays, we have office parties,
we have birthdays, like my birthday's coming up, so mine too.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So you have people that you may want to shop for.
Nurse Obviously, Black Friday are November twenty ninth that a
lot of people will be spending money on. Is there
a strategy that you employ to prepare to get the
best stuff at the best prices on Black Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I'm ready. First of all, I want to tell everybody
who doesn't know, Black Friday is called Black Friday because
in business, a retailer comes should come out of the
red on Black Friday. And then that's followed by Cyber Monday,
which which is Black Friday, is the Friday after Thanksgiving.
(02:03):
Then we've got Cyber Monday, which is the Monday after Thanksgiving,
and then there's a Green Friday that I'm not real
clear about.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I just people are just finding another way to get
you separated from your money.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So you have to plan ahead. This is the thing.
We're living in an economy now. We want our dollars
to go further. We want to buy nice gifts, and
we may not be able to afford to buy the
best and the greatest. I want you to go about
the things we talk about now and look for the
(02:38):
best you can afford. I don't want you to read
reviews on the internet. If you're at Amazon, I'd like
you to read what real people have to say, like
confirm purchases, Yeah, verified Verified. They may be fake too,
but I can tell you that everywhere I looked when
I was researching Black Friday, all I found were sponsored stories.
(03:02):
Buy this. We may have links on this page, so
we make money and I'm sponsored.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Explain for people who don't know when you say sponsored, Okay.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I don't do this, But what you can do is
you can get affiliate links, put them on your website
or share them on social media, and when someone clicks
that link, for example, they if you buy after you
click on their link, there's a code in it that
gives them a commission. And it used to be that
(03:37):
everything you bought for the next week. I don't know
if it's changed. It's just something I don't really participate in,
except when I give give a link to my books.
That's about it. But they get a commission every time
you click one of those links. So if you don't
want to give them a commission. You can just copy
the name of the product and paste it into Amazon
(04:01):
or the website.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Stop giving away all my secrets because I do it
all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Right, I mean you have to and you know it
doesn't hurt. Before you actually start the physical shopping. To
clear the cache on your browser for those.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Who don't know, cacche not cash.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And you can do that by going into the settings.
You don't have to clear out your passwords and things,
but clear out what's called cookies and cookies are left
on your computer, your tablet or your phone. To let
these websites, Oh they've been here already. Let's raise the price.
Let's jerk up the price.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
They wouldn't do that, would they. Because you're a frequent shopper,
you should get benefits for that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, one would think, wouldn't one. Okay, So what you
need to do ahead of time, and this is really important,
start making your list now. If you know what that
person is into, just put that next to their name.
(05:04):
Then maybe a dollar amount so you can budget how
much you're going to be spending for Christmas. Don't forget
the people you work with, don't forget the teachers, don't
forget people you go to church with. Just put everybody.
Am I going to bake cookies? Okay, that's in there,
but have your list ahead of time, and that way
(05:26):
you won't kind of be faced on Black Friday with
oh my, what am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Let me ask you this question, because customarily for me,
I almost buy nothing on Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
One.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm not going to go to a physical location, big
box retailer.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
That's out. I'm not dealing with that mess.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I will do a lot of shopping on Friday, which
I basically turn into a cyber Friday, and I'll do
a Cyber Monday. Aren't we at a point where just
about every retailer is making either as much money or
more money on Cyber Monday than the traditional Black Friday.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Well, actually it's going back and Black Friday is cyber
Now Black Friday has taken over. So you've got number
one being Black Friday. You're going to get like televisions,
you need a new television. I guarantee you the best
prices of the year are on Cyber Friday.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I don't need to so I don't have to drive
my ass down to Target and fight with people anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
No, and let me just tell you retailers most all
will be running sales. So, for example, if you want
to buy your college student child a laptop, go to
the ACER website, search the brand, but Amazon, Walmart, Wayfair,
(06:49):
Best Buy, Target, Adorama if you're familiar with them, be
an h their photographic and Electrical and home depot, Lows
Nordstrums are going to be running, blasting sales, just blasting sales,
(07:09):
and you know, you know how much money because you
start your list tomorrow. Seriously, it doesn't pen paper. You
don't have to put it on a computer because that
way you can stick it in your pocket and carry
it around with you. And if you want to add somebody,
you just add somebody.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Let me jump in there real quick.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
We know that people are more inclined to spend money
on Black Friday. Isn't it safe to assume that these
retailers just because are going to jack up these prices
and then say that they're offering thirty percent off.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And you just thank you for that, thank you for
that softball. Uh, there's a website called Camel Camel Camm
Camel cim e l c am E l c am
E l dot com. You can go on there and
they track a product's price over time on Amazon keep
(08:08):
other places, and they display the price history on the page. Also,
Honey as a price history for other retailers like Walmart,
best Buy. So use these things, and I know Honey
is something you have to install. I don't know the
(08:29):
people of a browser is. I think it's a browser extension,
and I don't like doing that. I don't like to
give away my privacy of my browser. So if I
did that, i'd install it and uninstall it asap. I
do that with apps all the time. But I use Camel.
Camel Camel in another window to check the prices, and
(08:51):
if you see a price that looks good, you run
it on. Camel can also do a Google search on
the brand and the serial number, and once you do that,
you know where the best price is. Go get it
before it sells out.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
You gave us a lot of information, But are there
any When we come back, I would like to talk
about some maybe shopping portals which are off the beaten
path that we should also give some consideration, other than
the eBay, the Amazon or the Walmart target.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I got your covered mode, all.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Right, it's later with mo Kelly. It's tech Thursday on
a Tuesday. Marshall Callier joins me in studio k if
I AM six forty Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
As Black Friday approaches, we have tech Thursday on a Tuesday.
Am I getting any more days? And the weekend? This
intro Marshall Collier. Last day we were talked about Black Friday,
some things to do in preparation and some dudes and don'ts,
tips and tricks. But I believe most people are inclined
to go to the Amazon dot com, the Walmart dot com,
(10:02):
the Target dot com, the usual suspects. Are there any
off the beaten path where there's not only a good deal,
but possibly a good portal to visit?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Well, I got you covered. I love bargain shopping. There's
a website called I'm going to give you a few
of them woot dot com. Woot dot com that used
to be a small, really funky community type website and
people loved it. It was great. They even have a
(10:34):
particular item that they have for five dollars called.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
A bag of crap, a bag of crap.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yes, and it's paper bag and you don't know what's
in it, and that'll show up on the page every
so often everybody dives in to buy it because sometimes
that's interesting. It's got really great stuff in it. Right,
how many years have I been chasing that?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
You just buy a bag of something sight unseen?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I've bought dollars five dollars and people get electronics. They've
been bought out by Amazon, so you know there's going
to be Amazon overstock there. There's going to be item
a lot of items from Amazon. They're going to be
bought out stuff from other places. So that's a really
great place to go. I'm my family. Unfortunately at Christmas,
(11:23):
I'll say, uh been shopping at uh Wood.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Huh oh.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It sounds like that'd be great for white Elephant gifts,
Secret Santa things of that.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
My husband bought one hundred toothbrushes for eighteen dollars, just in.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Case you run out of friends, Kirk, What are you doing, Kirt?
That's ae hundred too. Are you going into business now?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
They're going in stocking stuffers?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, okay, yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So here and I brought this one for you. This
is one called Brad's Deals br D S DEA L S.
And I've been shopping these people for ages and this
is the email they sent me Saturday, and you have
to go there every day to find the deals. Thirty
one dollar heated throw, fifty percent off toys at Coal's,
(12:12):
fifty dollars Oakley Sunglasses, Here's a French door air fryer
for sixty eight bucks. Food Network ten piece cookwear for
fifty five bucks plus a ten dollars gift certificate, Nike
Max XC shoes forty nine bucks, and sixty percent off
Ralph Lauren blankets. Okay, they send this email out regularly.
(12:37):
You go to their website and you won't believe what
you see. It's pretty amazing. My other favorite, no, these
are all These three are my favorites. And Slickdeals dot
com s L I C K D E A L
S dot com another one. They will peet when people
find deals on the Internet, they post it on Slick Deals,
(13:00):
so it's kind of like a Reddit for bargain shopping,
and you never know what's going to come up there
because people will post them, other members will verify them
say yeah, I got the deal. Good thing and you
get reviews. It's really a great site. So you've got
WoT Brad Steals Slick Deals. Then consider what's it called
(13:23):
retail me.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Not retail me not?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
They have coupons, which is I'm not a big online
coupon he so.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Either mine, I never have been. I just just give
you the deal. I don't want to hunt for the coupon.
And depending on a type of coupon, a lot of
them don't work. Have you noticed that, Oh yes I have.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I haven't had one work in forever. So basically I'm
going to tell you Brad's deals. You could also go
to Groupon coupon is actually a website still still yeah,
but Brad Steals Slick Deals and woot. Trust me on this.
You will get lost and the stuff changes every day.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Is this something that you would recommend specifically for Black
Friday or Black Friday and Cyber Monday?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
For Black Friday, Cyber Monday, general amusement. When you're lying
in bed and you want to see the deals. They
have the categories at the top of the page drop
down menu. Oh look, refurbished Apple products click, oh look,
Ralph Lauren sweaters click. You'll be surprised at the amount
(14:32):
of stuff you're going to see at these websites, and
why go any why pay retail? Not in these days.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I used to spend more than I should have on
overstock dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
That was my guilty pleasure.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I got divorced and redecorated my head Overstock.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There was something about Overstock, and this was many years ago,
now that there are other comparable websites.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, when Patrick's started it, I knew him, and his
goal was to have quality merchandise, good for the customer,
and great customer service. And they had it. They had it.
The prices were incredible and they had closed out items
from furniture and clothing. It was great.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
What happened was it just competition entering the marketplace other
places like woot offerings.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Wayfair wayfair wayfair I think was a big competitor.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I was getting ready to sing the jingle because I
love jingles, I know, but I won't do it.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But so other companies have taken that market share.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, and he isn't the CEO anymore. He founded the
company and ran away with his lots and lots of money. Yeah,
that's what It's not happening to me. But is it
happening to you?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
No, I spend more money than I make online.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
We have, so listen. I came up with some things
you may not have thought about. We know ties, we
know about sock sweaters, tracksuits, all good things to look for.
Right when you're buying tracksuits and stuff like that on Amazon,
I want you to check the fabric because some of
(16:14):
the new fabric is just garbage that they're selling on Amazon.
Try and buy from a brand you're familiar with.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I definitely agree. Use a brand that you know.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Exactly because you can trust. Yeah, you can always return it,
but why.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Who wants that headache?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I don't want that headache. Now Here are some items
that I think you might like. Ums. Okay, between two
and three hundred dollars. Do you ever think to have
a home theater with a ten eighty P projector No?
That may be a nice gift. If there's somebody you
want to spend between two hundred and three hundred dollars
(16:52):
to another family that you're close.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
To, Yeah, I don't like a lot of people for
that much money.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Neither do it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
If I want to spend two three hundred dollars on
you better be like living in my house.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Well, okay, remember about a year ago I showed you
that bird feeder with the camera in it and it
had a solar panel. It was called bird Fi brd
f Y. I'm still enjoying it. I like it. It's great.
I see the squirrels. It's just wonderful. You're gonna find
(17:21):
it from sixty dollars. They have incredible deals. I think
they sell them at Walmart now that it's become really
a big brand in the US. And I think that
we found him first. Good for us. Then how about drones.
Drones come in all sizes and prices. They have little
cameras in them, and they're fun to play with until
(17:43):
you break them.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So until you break them down.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah, I wouldn't spend a lot. My husband has gone
through a couple of large drones, and yeah, well we
won't be buying anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
First you've taken away his drone privileges.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Pretty much. AR smart glasses.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Augmented reality for those time.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I'm not talking about like the Apple one three thousand
dollars I bought my husband last year. This is not AR.
But there's a ray band excuse me, ray band bows.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I saw that I saw the commercials of that. That
scares me and also excites me. I know it scares
me because you never know when you're on camera at
that point.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Well, but there's one that's just a bluetooth for music.
So when you're taking your walk in your neighborhood or
you just want to be in your own head, put
on your sunglasses, turn on the music, and just walk
and that's all it does. And you can you can
get that reasonably online.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
And I have to say it is mind blowing. I
tried one of them on Oh You did the bust
thing that she's talking about. It is insane. How you
literally put it on and you can just hear the music.
You take it off, then you hear the crowd around you.
It's so it removes all like the ambient noise for
the most part. Won't you won't hear the bus like
getting ready to almost like you have earbuds in and
(19:10):
it's just the glasses and you're.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Gonna just plots. Because I got that on woot dot com.
I bought four of them as gifts as for ninety
nine dollars apiece, and I gave them to family members.
Now we all look like family now we all look
like the Blues Brothers.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Look.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I have to say that is brilliant product integration marketing. Yeah,
with ray Band, because no one was thinking about ray
Band in a technological sense.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Well meta, Their new ar glasses are ray Ban's also.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Look.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
All I can say is but I don't want to
camera in my glasses. I went through my stage of
doing that, and I don't care. How about a dash cam.
I just bought one for my cars under one hundred bucks.
Yes you can. What a great little gift.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Somebody you care if you want to set it up
for them. I got to watch out for the runners
out there. If someone's gonna flip me the bird, I
need it on a video.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I don't appreciate you trying to drag me into this,
but I would like to pair those glasses.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Please.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah you can find them, just just search for boats.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Don't hear from you? Please? You're talking about for free
from this?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Huh? Yeah. I had to pay for them.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I don't take a lot of free stuff, and I'm
offered a lot of free stuff because I always say
to them, if I don't like it, I'm going to
tell people. And you don't want that, so just don't
give it to me unless it's something I really want.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
In witch Man, you can tell the truth and there's
nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I'm sorry I'm out of time with you, Marshall Collier,
but also we'll see you again, probably before the holidays
are here, and I'm quite sure you'll have even more
good advice.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm going to save some deals for you because we'll
see each other before.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Thanksguy, Yes, so very quickly. We have woot, we.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Have brads deals, slick deals and retail me not. Yeah,
I'd stick with the top three. Okay, all right, that's
what i'd stick. Go to their websites now, get a
field for them, and you'll see where the deals are.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Marshall call You're always great to see you.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Always good and I love the holiday season, so let's
make it a grand one.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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