You may have noticed that Black Friday and Cyber Monday came and went this past week, scorching the deal landscape in their wake. Best Buy, Staples, Amazon, Microsoft Store, Target and Dell aggressively priced online sale products...

If you hadn’t noticed, Black Friday is already here. Retailers are pulling out the stops and trying to grab consumers’ attention before their competition does. What this means for you, oh intrepid online shopper, is that you...

It’s aggressive out in the world of retail, ladies and gents. Due to the shortened shopping season, retailers have been quietly pushing out Black Friday quality deals all month and it’s only going to become more intense...

During October, we conducted our 2013 Holiday Survey of approximately 3,000 shoppers pulled from our core U.S. audience. We asked questions about online shopping, holiday shopping budgets, most wanted products, shopping on mobile devices and the act...

Shoppers are going to miss out on killer, Black Friday caliber deals throughout November by waiting for doorbusters. You read that title correctly. Black Friday is dead! Kaput! Finito! Don’t get us wrong, it’s still going...

Why do we have to pay $60 for a new video game? It seems ridiculous. And don’t get started on downloadable content (DLC) and add-ons which can raise the total price of a game to $80 or...

On any given day at Ben’s Bargains, we’ll list deals with rebates, often around 10% of the entire day’s deals. Rebates are still a fairly common marketing tool in online shopping, especially among PC component manufacturers. Video...

If you’re a regular online shopper, you may have noticed Microsoft’s commercial promoting the Bing shopping search engine over Google Shopping. In it, a couple discuss how “Google sells its shopping results, so while they look like honest...

Over the past few months, you may have noticed that there are very few memory deals (desktop and notebook) appearing on Ben’s Bargains. Did we forget? Did we start adhering to the (Apple) philosophy that you suffer...

I see dozens of new products every day on Ben’s Bargains. Every once in a while, one of these new products looks awfully familiar… You know that saying, everybody has a twin somewhere in the world? It’s...

While you’ll mostly see brand-new products at Ben’s Bargains, you’ll occasionally run across the word refurbished on some of the deals that we post. What exactly does refurbished mean, and is it just a marketing term for “used” or...

In the movie Drive, The Driver (Ryan Gosling) is a Hollywood stuntman by day and a getaway driver by night. He’s a pretty cool dude. He’s also very busy. The Driver likes to stock up on toothpicks,...