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I hate buyers remorse. I hate being told by a flash sales site like gilt.com that I'm getting the best price, when I'm not. I want emotional satisfaction and the thrill of getting what I want at the best price too, so I can buy even more of what I want!

Camelcamelcamel gives you a quick snapshot of what the best going rate is for thousands of products. You can even put in a bid price and get an alert if the price drops into your budget or what you're willing to pay. When there's one left of an item, I'm secretly hoping maybe some behind the scenes web genie might just play my game and lower their already close out clearance price. Who knows, right?!?

This site allows you to spend wisely, if there even is such a thing! You can even price shop for the parts needed to fix your old washer and dryer so you don't have to buy new! You just need a handy man in case you're too busy shopping to be bothered picking up a screwdriver.

I like camelcamelcamel because it lets me BE the screwdriver instead of the other way around! Get my drift?

It takes a few more seconds, okay minutes, to be an informed consumer. If we all join together we can demand better products at lower prices. If you don't want dollars to fly out of your wallet like birds just because you are impulsive, reign in those binges with this site. It's like the extra seconds you need to say NO! It's protection for yourself from nasty product advertisers that put a sexy lady on an automobile when what's truly sexy is the gal who actually designed the car and has an engineering degree and is smart about everything she lays out, especially her money!

I ordered some boots. Noticed they were shipped from ky. Looked up warehouses there. Turns out amazon and zappos have warehouses in same city. Looked on amazon for boot. They sold it for $100 less than gilt. I called cust service to price match so we both could avoid return hassle. It's only $7.95 to return merch over $199. Mine was over that limit. They were only willing to go down $50. Meanwhile, gilt responded to my email request for price match. They said they couldn't do a thing. I wrote back indicating their phone customer service gave me a different story. Bottom line is gilt is good at flash sales that play on your emotions. They aren't good at fulfillment and even tho they own their warehouse it uses the same robots as amazon and is possibly under lease. Gilt is just a middleman. Wait til you can get the product for much less money since they are unwilling to actually do any customer service. I won't buy from them again. Even Nordstom rack had the same shoe for less. They shouldn't need to price match if they were actually pricing the products competitively. There's a lot you can read about the business model and what happens behind the scenes. Gilt should be called jilt.