Savvy shopping for geeks, chic

Tis the season for spending to ramp up a touch in anticipation of gift-buying and glitz-laden events of Christmas and New Year, and Savvy Circle has teamed with an eclectic and still-expanding coterie of electronic, household and fashion goods purveyors to bring online a free service to that may add value to your shopping experience.

With its bookmark plugin, Savvy Circle members may browse a directory of stores and easily tag and save to the site a shopping list of everything from a coveted home theater system to that couture piece epitomizing timeless craftsmanship. When the item’s price drops, the user is immediately notified. Simple, swish, and easy.

The site will soon sport features that will make the service even more unique and compelling. For now, consumers may price watch items from smaller boutiques as well powersellers including Amazon, Best Buy, Ikea, Target, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Barneys New York. Useful whether you are

• propeller head cool, in search of digital gadgetry,
• furnishing the home in geo-pop contemporary,
• a haute bohème fashionista
• comparison shopping for Microsoft’s X-box 360
• sorting out some holiday reads,
• shopping for a Walmart toy,
• purchasing a Chanel acid jolt makeup palette,
• appliancing the kitchen,
• looking for a gourmet gift,
• thinking on a new PDA with style + function,
• or pregnant and merely in need of rockin some new pants.

A few of the available merchants:

Case in point: If you are in the market for a cheap and portable computational device, CNET points out that the demand for laptops is reaching an all-time high this holiday season. “Best Buy is countering Wal-Mart’s offer by selling a Toshiba L25-S1192 laptop with an Intel Celeron M370 processor with 256MB of memory, 40GB hard disk drive and wireless capabilities for $379.99.”

Bookmark such comparable items on various sites, and you will hear it first from Savvy Circle when prices further fall.

Written October 20, 2007