How to find the best deals at outlet mall:

haha subby. we all feel your pain

Honest Bender: How to find the best deals at outlet mall:

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Looking at jeans on amazon; they are more expensive and you can't try them on.

Go to the clearance racks just like every other store.

Outlet mall tip (I worked at one in college): Most have email newsletters now, and when they have one day sales, they'll send out an email.

Also, during the week, when it's slow, you tend to find those one days sales, and on Tuesday/Wed is when the larger shipments come in, so you can find the better merchandise then, as it hasn't been ravaged by retarded weekend shoppers like it's the End of Times.

Be a weird size -- my brother is on the short side, and is always able to find top-end fancy shoes, suits, etc. at insanely low prices (eg $2K suits reduced to $200) because these are always left over and unsold from the real stores, who send them to the outlets to get them out of their inventory.

Average-sized guys like me get screwed at the outlets. Either there is nothing available, or the stuff is "outlet direct" shoddier merchandise.

/CSB
//Outlet stores stopped being good when they stopped being real factory outlets and became just giant cheap malls in outer-ring suburbs with the same damn stores as everywhere else

Carth: Honest Bender: How to find the best deals at outlet mall:

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Looking at jeans on amazon; they are more expensive and you can't try them on.


Same item:



Link (new window) Amazon has it for $38.65

Link (new window) Toys R Us $19.99

I love Amazon but don't assume it is a good deal.

jst3p: I love Amazon but don't assume it is a good deal.

That's a third party seller fulfilled by amazon. You almost always get farked on those.

If you want to see depression made real, visit the JC Penny Outlet store in Kansas City. I'd look up the address/link a Google Map but I'm afraid my CPU would commit suicide rather than follow those instructions.

It's worse than the worst Wal-Mart experience you can imagine. At least at Wal-Mart there are products you would actually want or find useful. All you'll find at JC Penny Outlet is a bunch of sad people shuffling around, trying to convince themselves they need patio furniture with 1 chair, or some decorative fireplace tools.

You want deals? I've got two words for you--and they are not "frog" and "pants".

Buy. Used.

BAM! Massive savings. T-shirts for $5, books for $2, $300 coat for $30. Brand-name products, if that's important to you, at bargain-bin prices. Okay, you have to examine the stitching and so forth, but frankly, you should be doing that anyway. Some customers--not all, but it doesn't take many--have all the foresight, forbearance, and fine-motor control of a blind puppy on meth, and that doesn't change just because you're at the Bay instead of Value Village.

Women be shoppin'.

IrateShadow: jst3p: I love Amazon but don't assume it is a good deal.

That's a third party seller fulfilled by amazon. You almost always get farked on those.

No shiat. I'm shopping for a new wireless mouse, and Amazon (itself) is selling the Logitech 5500 mouse plus keyboard for $110, and some 3rd party people are selling the same for $260 or so, and 3rd parties are selling just the mouse for $250, all while the Amazon-sold package is less than half and in stock, free shipping for everybody.

I wish my mouse would have crapped out during or before all the BF and year-end sales, not after. Prolly gonna wait until the Performance Mouse MX goes down to $50 again.

My sister-in-law works for a high-end retailer that makes slightly shoddier stuff for their outlet. So I'm getting a kick out of the replies...

Remember, they don't want the merchandise to be too bad because that would reflect poorly on them. But the outlet stuff is not designed with the same care or QC as the stuff meant for the retail stores.

Helen_Arigby: You want deals? I've got two words for you--and they are not "frog" and "pants".

Buy. Used.

BAM! Massive savings. T-shirts for $5, books for $2, $300 coat for $30. Brand-name products, if that's important to you, at bargain-bin prices. Okay, you have to examine the stitching and so forth, but frankly, you should be doing that anyway. Some customers--not all, but it doesn't take many--have all the foresight, forbearance, and fine-motor control of a blind puppy on meth, and that doesn't change just because you're at the Bay instead of Value Village.

Buy somebody else's pit stains?

Homey don't play that.

Tax Boy: Outlet stores stopped being good when they stopped being real factory outlets and became just giant cheap malls in outer-ring suburbs with the same damn stores as everywhere else

If you'd only posted this sooner, you could have saved all these other nice people the trouble.

Outlet malls around here are more expansive (if not equal) to the non-outlet equivalent. And that is after said "discount" which is applied after really high markup. Profiting...how does it work


/wife and I saw a spatula at Williams and Sonoma Outlet for $15 with 20% off
//same spatula at the non-outlet store is $10 ... Go figure
///furniture stored are horrible at this

Buy off-season. I was wandering the local outlet mall one August. A leather goods store had a really nice insulated suede coat marked down from $500 to $50. Yes, I bought it.