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How are they different? Google Assistant vs. Amazon Alexa
Voice AI Showdown: Google Assistant vs. Amazon Alexa
So, you have decided to enter the 21st century and make your home a smart home – with lights, doors, temperature, and music all controlled by voice commands. To make this happen, the first thing you’ll need is a smart assistant to control all your smart home devices. The question is, which one?
Three Surprising Holiday Gifts to Yourself
The holidays are just around the corner, and that means it’s time to start looking for that perfect gift for yourself. (and maybe a few ideas for others, as well).
So what do your friends and loved ones really need? One thing they could definitely use is better ways to protect their security and privacy – at home and online.
Credit Freeze – Block Thieves, Protect your Credit with a Security Freeze
Last Update: 9/21/2018
In September 2017, Equifax got hacked affecting 143 Million customers. (Almost everyone!) Equifax is offering complimentary identity theft protection.
As you probably know, security breaches at retail companies, banks, and even government agencies have been making their way to headlines rather frequently within the past few years. At this point, if you are not concerned about identity fraud, you should be. Just this past week, Americans found out that an attack on the Office of Personnel Management had impacted 14 million more people than initially reported.
The Best Store Return Policy and Refund Policies – Extended Holiday Returns
Last Updated: 12/5/2018
Stores Hate Returns
Let's face it, any store wants you to keep what you buy and never return it. Returns are costly to process, restock, and ship. Consumers need the option of returning an item, or else they would purchase far less products.
How to Find the Best Price on Anything
Last Update: 2/16/2018
Introduction
Everybody wants to find the best price when buying items, how do the pros do it? In this article, the founders of BuyVia.com will teach you how to find the best deals on top-notch products from vendors you know and love. These shopping experts have been involved in Internet shopping since 1999, having started TechBargains and building into a top technology shopping portal and selling it to a big company.
Christmas Holiday 2018 Shipping Deadlines
Last Update: 11/29/2018
Back in the day, when all gifts had to be bought in stores, retailers would helpfully remind us how many “shopping days” there were left before Christmas - not counting the Sundays, and often Saturdays, when stores were closed. Now, in the age of the Internet, every day can be a shopping day, and store hours are any time we’re awake.
However, that doesn’t mean you can just put off all your shopping until the last minute. Because the snag with doing your Christmas shopping online is, you have to factor in delivery time to be sure your gift will arrive before Santa takes off for the year. So instead of counting shopping days until Christmas, you have to count shipping days.
Fortunately, BuyVia has taken the work out of counting for you. We’ve checked websites for all the major stores to see how long their expected delivery times are for regular shipping, express shipping, and free shipping. If a store doesn’t have this information on the Web, or the information is conflicting, we’ve called customer service to get the scoop or extrapolated from the previous year - so you can just relax and enjoy your eggnog.
Predictions for Black Friday 2018 – Cyber Monday 2018
Last Update: September 24, 2018
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is traditionally the biggest sales day of the year for retailers. Starting in 2015, stores decided to jump the traditions and start sales earlier in the MONTH! Realistically, these sales were not as good as the main event, they were more hype.
We will analyze the deals from Black Friday 2017 and Cyber Monday 2017 and produce our educated guess on Black Friday 2018 and Cyber Monday 2018 sale items.
Black Friday 2018 Ad Leak Timeline
Everybody asks, when is my favorite store going to leak their Black Friday 2018 Ad? It helps to look back at 2014 to see when the major stores had their Black Friday Ad Leak.
Be sure to look at our Black Friday Ad Scans and Deals Page
The Insider’s Shopping Guide to Black Friday Deals and Sales
Last update: 9/15/2018
Ahh, Black Friday...that delirious, manic shopping frenzy the day after Thanksgiving, and now the entire week! Black Friday marks the kickoff of the holiday buying season and retailers offer deep discounts to coax our credit cards from our wallets and purses.
Be sure to look at our Black Friday Ad Scans and Deals Page Read the full post…
Eco Friendly Green Shopping in 2018
Being green in 2018 is a lot more difficult, the recycling landscape has changed, forcing us to make major changes.
Recycling is Dead
