How to Get the Best Deals on Area Rugs

By using just a few simple strategies, you can find the best deals on area rugs—online and locally. These strategies will save you time and unnecessary trips to the store. Here’s what you do:

Join Email Lists

If you find the perfect area rug at an online store, but it’s not on sale, there are two ways to find out when it gets discounted:

1. check the website constantly, or
2. get an email notification when it goes on sale.

The only way to get notified by email is when you sign up on the website to receive the company newsletter or email blasts. While this can lead to unwanted emails, like when you’re shopping at a store that carry many other items not related to decorating, it saves you time and reminds you when there’s an opportunity to get a good deal on area rugs.

Search NexTag for Deals

Go to www.nexttag.com and type in “area rug” or add a brand name to be more specific. This website is a huge time saver, making it easy for you to compare prices among several online stores at once, including Amazon. You’ll get a list back with images of area rugs for sale at different online outlets, in ascending order with the lowest price listed first. With one click you can compare prices, and there’s sure to be some stores you’ve never heard of and didn’t know to check. You could spend hours if you tried to do the same search yourself by typing in “area rugs” using a search engine like Yahoo!, Bing or Google.

Amazon Has Lots of Deals

Like NexTag, www.amazon.com displays a number of area rugs for sale by individual sellers and stores, which you can sort in ascending or descending order according to the list price. However, all of the sellers are on Amazon only, whereas NexTag includes Amazon sellers and others as well. Check Amazon for great deals by looking for prices that were crossed out to show a discount price. Add an item to your Amazon wish list until it goes on sale. Shop the day after Thanksgiving on “Black Friday” if you can to take advantage of Amazon’s “Lightning Deals” in their home and garden section. They lower prices by 40, 50, 60 and 70 percent on many items, and it could be that area rug that you couldn’t afford otherwise.

Local  Stores that Sell Areas Rugs

You might prefer walking into the store and making a purchase that way.You get to feel the rug and take fabric with you to hold up against the area rug to ensure a perfect match. The way to get the best deals in local stores is to wait for store wide and other sales. You can get the best deals when there’s a sale on area rugs specifically, plus an overall “take an additional 20 percent off all purchases” type of sale. You don’t want to drive to the store all the time to discover a sale, so join their mailing list if you don’t already get their sales flier in the mail.They may not always announce it in the newspaper, although that’s another way to find out about sales.

Area rugs can get expensive, so don’t ignore these strategies. Find the best deal possible, so that you can enjoy your purchase.