My shopping online....

Quite surprised this year with buying online, although I have always preferred to get out to the shops and buy myself rather than order online, but this year I decided to do a bit more online, did I save money? of course! 

My fist buy was WWE Smackdown v Raw 2010 for PSP a little hunting around and I found this at Game for £15.95 just about half price.

My second item was Need for Speed for Xbox 360, Gamestation came up trumps here at an amazing £24.95

Off to sportsdirect.com where this time I purchased World cup replica ball at £12.99 (£2.00 less than most places) and Nike Mercurial Veloci V Junior SG for £24.99 another good saving. What impressed me most about this was that I placed the order Wednesday lunchtime and the order was delivered Thursday lunchtime.

A Kodak ESP 3250 Printer from Currys although not ordered online, I reserved to pick up and saved £8.00

One thing I did purchase instore was an iPod touch 32GB, which as my wife works for Sainsburys we used her discount card and got 15% off, the bargain here was I also got a £25.00 itunes gift card free with the multi-buy offer. ipod touch and gift card £195.00

So not a bad shop this week, with good savings too... Thanks merchants!

Good or Bad 2009

An bit of an dodgy / slow start to the year. Especially with Justsalou website, which I thought would have done better at the start of the year when people are thinking about their holidays.

Come March things started to roll and I soon started to see it was not going to be that bad after all, with the site now in its second full year.  2008 saw 13184 visits and 43675 page views with 2009 to date coming in at 23,814 visits and 78,332 page visits, which considering the Euro and the recession I was quite pleased with.

Last year I decided to have a go at the Gift and presents market, nothing big, more of 'something to do' than anything else. In November this year I decided to have a play around again with JustThese, much happier with it now and just need to get some content on there. An ond link from the TimesOnline christmas gift guide for 2008 is getting more visitors to the site than it did last year, even though the product it was linking to is no longer available on there.

Most visitors from Google are for the phrase 'gifts under £5.00' which I seem to be placed No2 and No.3 for so can't be too bad. As for sales nothing great as yet, but there are sales and good commission sales too with the highest priced sale from the site at £154.95.

All in all not a bad year, with better results than 2008 so I cannot grumble, but most of all it has given me that push to carry on for a 2010.