When you Search for “Shipping Boxes”

What do you do when you need to find out about something?  Unless you are Amish, or part of an indigenous tribe, you more than likely turn to the internet.  If you are an American between the ages of 9 and 86 you probably turn to the internet immediately using your smart phone or tablet.  Outside of those parameters and you probably use your desktop at home, at work, or at the library.  Or, if you are Caribbean you will go to your local internet café.  All jokes aside, these stereotypes are pretty accurate (because stereotypes tend to be, right?). 

What do you do when you need to find the best deal on shipping boxes?  You open Google, or Bing, and you type in “best deal on shipping boxes”.  What happens next is both wonderful and terrifying.  As if reading your mind, the screen becomes filled with unlimited options.  At the top of the page you are going to see the pictures for some ads, advertising price and website.  Your internet search could possible stop here as your eye catches something that you want to check out further.  This time, though, that’s probably not going to be good enough, since you are trying to find the best deal.  To the right you can see a list of related searches that other people have made: best prices for moving boxes, best boxes for packing books, or cheap shipping boxes.  All the same, you are probably going to continue on your original path and begin to scroll the different options that are listed below all of this.

Unless there is a website that has already made price comparisons for what you are looking for, you are probably going to have to do it on your own.  So then you start probably start at the top.  You open the first website and either write down or make a mental note (not suggested) of what this place is charging for what amount of product.  And then you back out and go to the next website and do the same thing.  You should probably go through a couple pages of the search results before making a decision.  Usually the first sites listed are the ones who have a ton of money to spend on their marketing campaign.  You will probably even recognize who they are.  This is usually an indicator that their products will be priced higher because they are attached to the reputable name.  Keep looking!  Once you’ve made enough comparisons you can decide which way is the best to go.