How many times have you clicked through to a sales page and found a claim like "If you don't upgrade in the next 12 hours the price is going to go up!" or "Buy now, you will never find a better price!" Pretty common huh? What is even weirder is when you try to click off the sales page and you will get a pop up telling you "WAIT! If you don't leave now you will get an even better price" Sometimes these last ditch offers go on to lower the price a even second time. I recently saw one offer that dropped the original "discounted" price of $97 to $67 then to $47 ... may have gone lower but I bought at $47 so I can't say. Then the upgrade was offered at $97 and when I attempted to click off that page it was reduced to $27.
The lesson to be learned is NEVER buy at the first price offered. Shopping on the internet is like browsing a sidewalk or yard sale. The first price is a starting place, not what the seller expects you to pay. If you are bound and determined to buy yet another internet get rich quick scheme or just gotta have that new traffic grabbing tool, click off the sales page a couple of times and save yourself a few dollars. You may even come to your senses and bypass it entirely.
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