Buying Another Watch

The process of buying yet another wrist watch seems to be more of a quest and a challenge to save money rather than an impulse buy.

Well, I usually know which watch I want to buy beforehand and therefore I know the product number and its basically a job of Googling that product number and finding the website with the cheapest price, although recently I have found that I usually end up at the same site in the end, well 5 out of the last 7 times that is. I ended up buying my watches at Watches Shop, and on these occasions I used their Price Match Guarantee...after searching the web first.,..to get the lowest price....but my problem is this....

Considering I was buying a watch that costs around about the 50 quid mark.... after much googling and looking on sites such as Play and Amazon I found I could buy that watch for £46.99, then I used the Price Match Guarantee on Watches Shop, this feature allows you to email them with the price and location of the watch that you want (an obviously that they also sell) and then they will email you back with a lower price. So I did this and they emailed me back with a quote of £46.45....wow another saving of 54p...was it worth the time and effort ....I mean I work for £12 an hour, yet for some weird reason I was happy to spend about 1 and a half hours on the net trying to save 3 or 4 quid !! MADNESS

Also the quote from Watches Shop...anyway they were the cheapest to begin with as they didn't charge for delivery ....they offer free delivery in the UK on all their watches....while the company I got the lowest price from were on Amazon but wanted £3.99 delivery....so actually Watches Shop who were selling at the same price where actually cheaper by 3.99 as they didn't charge for delivery.

So all that time and effort resulted in a pittance of a saving yet for some reason I got a buzz out of it.. its not just the money and time,,,its the sense of acheivement and the glory of victory...the thrill of the chase....that I did find the lowest price....but I think next time I will just go straight to the checkout on Watches Shop because its just not worth the time !!!!!!!!!!