20 Online Shopping Secrets So Good You’ll Want to Keep Them to Yourself

Put a few items in your cart—and then abandon them

Clearly, online retailers love the chase. As soon as you leave items unpurchased in your cart, some stores will email you a discount code in an effort to get you to finish the checkout process.

You know, the creepy emails with the subject lines like, “Looks like you left something behind…” All you have to do is make sure that you’re signed into your account when filling up your cart; otherwise, the retailer won’t know where to send a code. Savvy shoppers swear by this strategy.