I have already talked in the past about how easy it is to save yourself a ton of money by calling your credit card company, but the truth is it goes way further than that.  Today I was in hollywood video store because it is closing and there is a bunch of stuff on sale.  All of the new releases were on sale for 15.99, the TV DVDs and previously viewed movies  for $5.  I grabbed the first two disks of season one of Lost because Ive heard its good and they were only $5 each.  Well, I grabbed a movie as well and took them all to the counter.  I was chatting with the assistant store manager as he was ringing things up.  He told me things were pretty slow and they weren’t selling out very fast.  As he rang up the movie it turns out it was a new release so I told him nevermind because it definitely wasn’t worth $15 to me.  So he set it aside….except then I told him

“Hey, if you want to sell it to me for five bucks, Ill take it.”  …And he did.

If you walk into king soopers and demand they give you 50% off on peanut butter, they are going to look at you funny.  But under the right situations, you really can save money, just by asking.  What have you got to lose?

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