The Internet has sure changed the way I shop and I assume that's so for most of you as well. Today I needed two small electronics items, a 2 GB SanDisk MicroSD card for my phone and a USB 2.0 cable for my new printer (printers often don't come with cables included anymore, which is lame).

Here's what the MicroSD card looks like:

Here's what the printer cable looks like:

So I went over to the Best Buy store to purchase these items. Luckily, I had checked prices online a little first. Otherwise I wouldn't have known how high the prices were. When I got there, the memory card was $34.99 plus tax and the printer cable was also $34.99 plus tax. The total with tax was $75.05.

Instead of purchasing right then and there I decided to wait and then look up prices online again. I purchased the memory card online for a total of $14.49 shipped and the printer cable for a total of $7.94 shpped. Not only that, but I got a 10-foot printer cable instead of a 6-foot cable. Thus, my total expense was $22.43 ,saving me $52.62.

That's $50 more in my pocket. Strong.

I find buying certain things online to be difficult. One example would be pants. You just gotta try on a pair of pants before you buy them. Having said that, learning to use the Net to buy most things is probably penny wise and pound wise too.

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