KMart: How To Save Money Shopping Online At KMart

We've been revisiting Kmart's website for our shopping review of Kmart coupons, Kmart sales and Kmart shipping and return policies. There have been a few updates - we even clarified something on their site that was confusing and suggested Kmart update their own site to reflect correct info. That's the beauty of Centsible: we read the fine print for you and analyze it, calling customer service if we have to, so you can know exactly how to be the smartest shopper possible.

Kmart's Shipping Policies

You may not know it, but KMart is owned by Sears. The shipping and returns policies of the two stores often overlap. Its difficult to tell if the shipping rates at Kmart have gone up since we last checked in 2009: Kmart prices its shipping by item and also the delivery preference. A couple things are new with Kmart's shipping however.

Shipping to Alaska and Hawaii

First, Kmart now ships to both Alaska and Hawaii: their website gives conflicting information on this one so we called them up and asked. The customer service team had to inquire themselves but did confirm that shipping is available to these two states now. K-mart also now offers both a Ship Vantage program and Go-fer shop online and pick-up in store program.

Ship Vantage Membership

When you participate in Kmart's Ship Vantage, you'll receive free standard shipping at both Kmart and Sears for 12 months. 2-day shipping runs $0.99 per item and overnight shipping is $3.99 per item. You'll get a free 30-day trial of the program when you sign up. If you choose to keep it, you'll be charged $79.99 for the year of this service.

Go-Fer Shop Online and Pick-Up In Store

Kmart now offers a facility where you can shop online for items and pick them up in store. Not all of Kmarts items are eligible for this service: look for the "Go-fer" logo. Some items are available the same day and can be picked up 2 hours after ordering online. Other items are "available the next day" and you will receive a confirmation email within 2 hours of ordering with a time frame that your order will be available for pick up.

Kmart's Return Policy

We did note on Kmart's returns policy that you must now include the original packaging with your returned item and also several aditional items have been added to the list of items that can only be exchanged for an identical item after the packaging has been opened. The returns policy at Kmart remains comparable to that of other stores.

All in all, we've seen a HUGE improvement in Kmart's online site over the past few years. Go ahead and check it out for yourself - you'll be surprised!

New Look for Centsible in 2010!

Bite-size pieces of information

Centsible is starting off 2010 with a brand new look! We've got tons of bargains and are updating our savvy shopping information daily. Things can get out of hand sometimes though and when it hits you all at once it can get a little overwhelming. We've gone ahead and broken things down into more manageable chunks for you. Go ahead and have a look at Centsible's new home page!

Shop A Variety of Different Ways

Sometimes you may want to shop by store. Other times you may want to see a list of shops presented by department. There may also be times when you have a specific style or type of purchase in mind and want to do some online window shopping by viewing a selection of products from our online retailers. Shopping in all of these different ways has always been possible at Centsible, we've just never made the options and possibilities as obvious before. Give each of these shopping strategies a try: you might find a new favorite store!

Know all of the ways that you can save by shopping online

There is more to savvy online shopping than just promo codes, online sales and free shipping offers. The everyday cost of a retailer's items comes in to play. What is the big deal of a 50% discount when a certain store charges twice as much for their products in the first place? Is free shipping really a deal when the every day flat rate is just around $5? Can you get your order minus paying sales tax if you shop through someone else? Centsible is here to help you look at the big shopping picture. Read up on how to account shipping rates in to your savings strategy. Check out store's sales tax policy to see if you can get an additional percentage chopped off your bill. Quickly navigate to Centsible's hand-picked online clearance racks and featured sales.

Don't coupon codes matter?

Of course they do! A good deal is only a deal if its not shrouded in extra shipping fees, sales tax and inflated prices. Once you've done your savvy shopping online at Centsible's virtual shopping mall, check and see if you can add an online coupon or promo code to your shopping to sweeten the deal.

What are you waiting for? Go ahead and make another trip to Centsible.net and make sure you're not overlooking any way to save money when shopping online!

Centsible's New Stores Series #6 - Maidenform.com

Shopping Tips for Maidenform.com: Coupon/Promo Codes, Sales and Free Shipping

What is Maidenform.com

Maidenform.com is the online store for Maidenform brand intimates. Other brands that are also sold are Flexees Shapewear, Control It! Swimwear and Lilyette bras. Maidenform, Lilyette and Flexees are sold online at Macys online: you can also shop for these intimates online at Maidenform. You won't pay sales tax on your Maidenform order unless your order is shipping to North Carolina. Its up to you to decide what is the better deal based on your timing and the destination of your package: no sales tax with Maidenform.com or frequent "buy one get one" or "buy two get one" Maidenform deals at Macys..

What does Maidenform sell?

To put it simply, Maidenform sells undergarments, swimwear and sleepwear. These products can fall under the names of Lilyette, Maidenform, Flexees and Control It!. Within these different brand names (all available at Maidenform.com) you can purchase: nursing bras, sports bras, push-up bras, camisoles, back smoothers, soft-cup bras, demi-cup bras, T-back or "racer back" bras, minimizers, strapless bras, full-figure bras, adhesive bras, concealers / comfort accessories / enhancers, pajama sets, gowns, chemises, activewear, robes, bikinis, tangas, thongs, hipsters, briefs, G-strings, boy shorts, girl panties, high leg brief, full briefs, waist nipper briefs, waist nippers, body briefers, thigh slimmers, boy shorts, control slips, control camisoles, control thongs and the Control It! shaping swimwear collection. (Did you even know there were that many options available in womens undergarments?)

Maidenform Shipping

Deliveries from Maidenform are priced based upon the speed of delivery requested and the pre-tax total of your order: orders shipping within the United States via standard shipping and totaling over $75 SHIP FOR FREE. (This would be another thing to consider when weighing up whether or not you should purchase your Maidenform products from Maidenform's Official site or through Macy's online). Both 2nd Day Air and Next Day Air service is available for orders shipping to the United States and these names refer to business days as no deliveries are made on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays. Expedited delivery is not available to US Territories, Alaska, Hawaii or Canada. Orders can be placed for shipment out of the US to Canada only and this is done through CanadaExpress.

Sometimes its a better deal to shop for Maidenform, Lilyette and Flexees online at Macys, sometimes you'll get a better deal if you shop at Maidenform.com itself. Shop with Centsible at either Macy's or Maidenform and use our tips to see where your dollar will go further.

Centsible's New Stores Series #5 - Beautorium.com

Shopping Tips for Beautorium.com: Coupon/Promo Codes, Sales and Free Shipping

What is Beautorium.com Beautorium.com is an organic bath & body store based in North Carolina. They stock products from some of the finest names in organic cosmetics and skincare: Afterglow Cosmetics, Dr. Hauschka, Exuberance, Farfalla, Juice Beauty, John Masters, Korres, Laboratoire Cattier, Logona, Marina Cosmetics, Melvita, Naturopatch, Revolution Organics, Pangea Organics, Saaf, Rain Africa, Sophyto, Red Flower, Suki, Trilogy, Under The Canopy and Weleda. Beautorium.com is able to ship to the United States, Canada, select other countries outside of the U.S. and APO/FPO addresses. Beautorium.com exclusively uses UPS to ship their products and UPS can't ship to P.O. boxes so that is one place where Beautorium won't ship. Beautorium.com carries these organic products hailing from all over the world. You won't pay sales tax on them though unless your order is shipping to North Carolina.

What does Beautorium.com sell? Beauty products, of course! We've let you know about the brands and that they're world-wide and organic, but what sort of products exactly do they stock? You can buy aromatherapy patches, anti-aging products, face care, bath & shower products, pregnancy and new baby products, men's items, hair care, kits/gifts/home fragrance, wellness products, cosmetics, candles, spawear and skincare solutions.

Beautorium.com Shipping Deliveries from Beautorium.com don't follow a schedule of prices: they instead depend upon the zip code for delivery and the particular items being shipped. Both 2nd Day Air and Next Day Air service is available for orders shipping to the United States. Orders totaling $100 or more ship for free to the United States via standard shipping. Orders shipping to Canada take between 4 and 12 days to ship and orders shipping to other locations outside of the US take between 6 and 10 days to ship. Orders shipping within the United States with ground shipping have a delivery time based upon their proximity to North Carolina.

Other benefits of shopping online at Beautorium.com There are a few! Aside from no sales tax for orders not shipping to North Carolina and free shipping on orders totaling $100 or more, you'll also get a free natural tote bag with every order totaling $50 or more. Beautorium has an excellent free sample program and offers many freebies with purchase on a regular basis. What are you waiting for shop online at Beautorium now and use Centsible's review as your guide to savvy savings!

Centsible's New Stores Series - #4 Flower.com

Shopping Tips for Flower.com: Coupon/Promo Codes, Sales and Free Shipping

What is Flower.com Flower.com is a floral network based in Los Angeles, CA. THEY ARE NOT A FLORIST! They coordinate floral deliveries all over the United States and much of the rest of the world. In fact, the main two locations you can't send flowers to are Post Office Box Addresses and APO/FPO addresses. As such, you won't pay any tax on your order UNLESS IT IS SHIPPING TO CALIFORNIA.

What does Flower.com sell? Flowers, of course! More than that that though, you can also purchase gift baskets containing spa products, gourmet foods and regional cuisines, cookies, cakes, balloons, teddy bears and cakes at flower.com. The various flowers are fulfilled by subscribing florists in flower.com's network. Gift baskets will be sent in the post.

Flower.com Shipping Deliveries from Flower.com start at $9.99 and depend upon whether or not expedited delivery is required, the type of product and other factors. Flower.com prides itself on paying great attention to funeral flowers. They liaise with funeral homes regarding viewing information and delivery times and will even look up the exact address of the funeral home and / or zip code if you are unable to provide it. Be sure to specify if this is the purpose of your flower order: also if it is a birthday or anniversary delivery as it was noted that they do show special attention towards birthday and anniversary floral orders. Flower.com DOES offer Sunday delivery: this is not a common thing in the floral delivery world! Flower.com operates a floral network that also allows them to deliver flowers to most destinations worldwide. In fact, the only destinations explicitly stated on flower.com they they CANNOT deliver to are Post Office Box Addresses and APO / FPO addresses.

A few more questions..

Honestly, Centsible has a few more questions on Flower.com. For example, what exactly IS their floral network? Are they in collaboration with any other major florists? What is the delivery schedule and price list for items such as gift baskets? We've sent an email to Flower.com and will be posting our findings at our main site, Centsible.net.

Click here to read Centsible's full review of Flower.com

Centsible's New Stores Series - #3 Chocolate.com

Shopping Tips for Chocolate.com: Coupon/Promo Codes, Sales and Free Shipping

What is Chocolate.com Chocolate.com brings more shopping power to you through Centsible's online shopping mall. Not a chocolatier or chocolate factory themselves, Chocolate.com instead showcases some of the United States finest chocolatiers. In fact, we even looked up and listed all chocolate.com's represented chocolate makers by state for your convenience. Knowing where the chocolate makers are located can be helpful if you're looking to save on your shipping costs or you want your chocolate to arrive at its quickest! The best way to use this listing is to do a product search at chocolate.com on the chocolatier's name. Some of your chocolate shop's confections will show up in the search, just click on the link of the Chocolatier name to visit chocolate.com's page on them. Chocolate.com represents many fine chocolate-makers in the following areas: Canada, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Of course you can get your chocolate delivered to ANY state and even a few select countries OUTSIDE the US, but the cost and delivery time depend both on your order's destination AND the fulfilling chocolatier.

What does Chocolate.com sell? Chocolate, of course! More than that that though, you can also purchase fudge, brownies, cookies and cakes at chocolate.com. Some of the represeneted chocolatiers also offer gift baskets. The variety of chocolates is also astounding. There are organic and fair-trade chocolates, certified Kosher chocolate, sugar-free goodies, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate.. You can have photos imprinted on chocolates, serve personalized wedding favors, make corporate orders. Chocolate.com offers many treats specific to the holidays: Halloween, Easter, Valentines Day and Christmas to name a few of the more popular Chocolate holidays.

Chocolate.com Shipping All shipping for Chocolate.com is arranged through UPS, but the individual chocolate shops are responsible for the actual packaging. One thing is static across the board though: you won't pay sales tax on your orders placed through Chocolate.com! Your shipping costs will actually vary based upon the location to where you are delivering your order and the specific chocolate shop that will be fulfilling your order. As Chocolate.com uses UPS exclusively for deliveries, there is no delivery to Post Office Box addresses and deliveries are only made Monday through Friday, exclusive of public holidays.

For a selection of boutique chocolatiers and to support small independent business, you want to visit Chocolate.com. Shop Chocolate.com now with Centsible's full review.

Centsible's New Stores Series - #1 Adagio Tea

A New Decade At Centsible

We're starting off not only a new year here at Centsible, but also a new decade! Centsible.net has loads of new merchants in our online shopping mall, so we thought we'd start a new series here on the blog to introduce individually each of our new merchants.

Adagio Tea

Adagio Tea is not a new store itself, but they are new to Centsible's online shopping mall. They've been reviewed many times on HGTV, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Epicurious, TIME, Food and Wine and many other publications. And now they're here on Centsible!

What exactly do they sell at Adagio Teas? Of course they sell tea, either in individual orders or sampler sets. Varieties within the following types of tea are available: black, flavored, chai, oolong, white, green, herbal, rooibos, decaf, blooms, blends and iced tea. They also see teaware: teapots, tea chests, teapot warmers, teapots, cups & saucers, mugs and more. Items for the pantry include honey, sugars and cookies. And of course Adagio Teas does gift sets.

Adagio Teas Shipping

Some of the benefits to ordering from Adagio Teas: no sales tax except on orders shipping to either California or New Jersey, free gift wrapping on ALL gifts, flat rate shipping at the low prices of $3.75 for ground shipping or $9.75 for Second Day Delivery, free shipping on orders of $50 or more.

Where does Adagio ship? Adagio Teas ships to the 48 continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, P.O. Boxes, APO/FPO addresses and select countries outside the United States. Addresses outside the US, Post Office Box Addresses and addresses classified by UPS as "rural" have surcharges for delivery.

Shop online at Adagio Teas with Centsible

Give Adagio Teas a visit and read Centsible's online shopping review of Adagio Teas now.

Christmas Shopping - Deadlines To Order By For Christmas Delivery on Standard Shipping

Guaranteed Christmas Delivery

A caveat to online holiday shopping

The holidays are quickly approaching and so are the deadlines to get your gifts ordered for timely delivery. There are so many benefits to ordering online. You'll save time, you might save on sales tax and, to top it all off, its just so convenient! You have to plan ahead when shopping online though, and that's where Centsible comes in to the picture.

Its a lot of work reading the fine print!

All year long we're checking out the shipping and sales tax policies of the stores we review. We're comparing one shop's prices to another's and figuring out all of the different places you can go online to purchase specific brands or items. We take note of the return policies and call your attention to anything that might present an issue with your shopping. We spell out the different ways you can ship your order and how long it will approximately take for the package to arrive at its destination. We'll even make phone calls if our questions aren't answered: answering questions like when sales tax IS or IS NOT charged and when the cutoff date is for orders to be delivered by Christmas.

Do you have the time to search through websites checking the shipping policies or phoning customer service to ask questions? Probably not. Just check out what we've found and save yourself some time. And money.

Be sure to take advantage of Centsible's Online Shopping Reviews this holiday season.

Centsible is a lot more than just a "coupon website". Sure we're a deal aggregator too (remember Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday?), but we go even further than that. Looking to get free shipping? There's no doubt we're the best site online to help you get that. BUT, we're also the best place to shop online for the holidays and make sure it gets there on time.

Be watching Centsible tweets, Centsible Facebook postings and our blog postings right here (why not subscribe to the blog and our datafeeds) or Subscribe by Email. And of course, you should be shopping online at Centsible.

Over the next few days we'll be contacting ALL of the stores we cover to find out this holiday's shipping deadlines for timely delivery. That's over 100 stores! We already have our directories up with ordering deadlines for christmas delivery with ground shipping, ordering deadlines for christmas delivery with 2nd day or expedited shipping and ordering deadlines for christmas delivery with overnight shipping. These pages will be filling up quickly, so keep an eye on them along with our tweets and Facebook posts.

More Cyber Monday Deals Added At Centsible

We've just added a lot more Cyber Monday Deals over at Centsible. Keep looking for these throughout the day today! Here's a quick round-up of what's going on in these latest additions to our listing of Cyber Monday Specials.

• Aeropostale - Get between 50% and 70% off sitewide. Orders totaling $75 or more at Aeropostale's children's division, P.S., get a free teddy bear included.


• Barnes & Noble - Most DVDs priced at half-price, some are even discounted more.


• The Great Indoors - Take an extra 10% off storewide and get 15% off on major appliances with your choice of either no interest & no payments or free delivery.


• iRobot - Take $100 off the iRobot Scooba® (380 degrees floor-washing robot).


• K-Mart - K-Mart has a lot of things going on for Cyber Monday. In addition to the deals we've already posted to the site and blogged about, they're offering savings in the following departments: baby (unspecified savings), bed & bath (up to 50% savings), Christmas Décor (an extra 10% or take 25% off Martha Stewart and Jaclyn Smith Holiday Items), yoga & Pilates (20% discount prices), Kenmore small kitchen appliances (up to 40% deductions), slippers (up to 40% off), shoes (buy one and get one 50% off) and save up to 50% on women's Pink K and Joe Boxer sleepwear and robes. Take $100 off fitness equipment, $10 off jewelry purchases of $100 or more & take $20 off if your purchase reaches $200 (requires the use of K-Mart promo codes either SAVE10FJ112609 or SAVE20FJ112609, $120 off Panasonic's 32" LCD HDTV and $50 off on Element's 19" LCD HDTV. Finally all Pixos & Chixos are on sale at K-Mart. Don't forget to use the K-Mart promo code KMART5OFF50 to take $5 off qualifying purchases of $50 or more. Many of these savings at K-Mart are going on all week, through December 5


• Motorola - get a DROID for $40 off.


• Perfumania - Get a free gift with every purchase on Cyber Monday only. Through the holidays you can take 20% off fragrance gift sets and 10% off top fragrances.


• Samsonite - Take an additional 20% off clearance luggage while supplies last.


• Sears - Like K-Mart, Sears has many Cyber Monday deals. Find 15% discounts on appliances with either free delivery or 12mo. no interest & no payments, 10% off vacuums and floorcare, a free DieHard emergency kit with the purchase of 4 Michelin tires, discounts of up to 55% on bedding and bath items from Serta and Sunbeam as well as 50% off all mattresses. Holiday decorations and Christmas trees are 33% off, holiday toys are 40% off and use Sears promo code SWEEPS10 to take an extra 10% off fine jewelry. You'll find even more discounts in window treatments, office furniture, children's dresswear and the women's department.


• Target - Get up to 30% off select shoes.

Our entry into the blogosphere!

After many months of thinking "We need to start a blog..", here it is!  Welcome to Centsible.net's brand new blog!  We'll be using this blog to feature "Deals of the Day".  These will be coupons, sales or promos that we think are too hot to miss.

We've got ideas for other blogs too (as well as an RSS feed) - let us play around with this one for a while and see what materializes.  Centsible.net is always trying to help you keep an eye out on how to make cents of the internet.  Be sure to visit our homepage at Centsible.net, as well as the Deal Discussion Forums hosted by Centsible. We hope this blog helps you make Centsible.net an everyday part of your life!

We've been getting bigger and better and continue to do so!  Welcome on board and let us help you save some money!

Regards,

Laura

Webmaster - Centsible.net