{"id":115,"date":"2004-03-01T19:12:14","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/01\/how-to-save-136-on-a-40gb-ipod\/"},"modified":"2004-03-01T19:12:14","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T02:12:14","slug":"how-to-save-136-on-a-40gb-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/01\/how-to-save-136-on-a-40gb-ipod\/","title":{"rendered":"How to save $136 on a 40GB iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, I love Amazon<\/A>. It’s not that the site is easy to use, loads quickly, has great wishlist functionality, and ships virtually everything for free. It’s that you can save a heck of a lot of money if you do it right.<\/p>\n

Last week, I decided that I no longer wanted to be the last kid on my cube block to have an iPod<\/A>. I managed to control myself though and not buy one immediately. I looked around a bit for the best price (from someplace legitimate) and found that Amazon would be cheapest, at least for me.<\/p>\n

Checking out dealmac<\/A>, Amazon regularly has sales on the 40GB iPod for $463<\/A> or $36 off. I figured if I waited long enough, they would have another one. Sure enough, today they did and I snatched one up.<\/p>\n

But I didn’t pay $463. I paid $362 after cashing in gift certificate from my last quarter’s referral credit and a certificate from my Amazon.com visa<\/A>. Of course, this purchase will count towards credit for those same rebates, so I’ll get a $30 referral credit<\/A> (to myself!) and another $12 back eventually for using their credit card.<\/p>\n

Net cost: $362.69 or 27% off with no shipping and no tax. Not bad at all. And while I chose the free super saver shipping, they appear to be preparing it to ship right now. Sometimes I’ve even seen packages arrive from them before I got the shipping notice, literally overnight. Can you tell I’m excited? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

40GB is a lot of music. Now I just need to figure out where to get cheap iPod accessories…<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I miscalculated the referral credit and my actual cost was $362! Woo hoo! It arrived today and iTunes is almost done copying 6,000 songs onto it. Yum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, I love Amazon. It’s not that the site is easy to use, loads quickly, has great wishlist functionality, and ships virtually everything for free. It’s that you can save a heck of a lot of money if you do it right. Last week, I decided that I no longer wanted to be the last …<\/p>\n

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