One of my favourite places to buy some good value online deals nowadays is the website iBOOD. It offers a new low priced item everyday. The good thing is that they have so called iBOOD hunts every now and then, where offers run all day long and the fastest bidder gets the item. There are also ‘mystery boxes’ for sale, which always contain a lot more value then the price of the box and can be very exciting to order.
There’s always something cool about buying good value deals. This applies to goods bought online as well as in actual stores. It is proven that the purchase of goods can create a natural high. This is the same high that people can experience when eating chocolate or when you achieve something that you really wanted and put a lot of effort into. I experienced this last time when iBOOD had one of their famous ‘hunts’. I was planning to buy a cheap laptop, as I know that these are particularly well priced. When I was finally able to order this item it made me feel great and was definitely worth the wait.
The type of goods that are offered on the site are mostly electronics. Many of the items are modern goods but as shown on the picture below, the occasional vacuumcleaner can also be found. Up to this day, iBOOD is only available in most European countries. If you are living outside of Europe, the only way to use their service is to do your shopping through a European friend. Bad thing about this is you will lose some of your profit to shipping costs. With the pace the site is growing at though, it wouldn’t surprise me if iBOOD would soon be operating internationally.
Whenever I check the prices that iBOOD is selling at, it can sometimes come close or be cheaper than wholesale prices. Because iBOOD offers their products throughout the whole of Europe, they are able to buy very large supplies from the source.
The brilliance of iBOOD comes into play whenever they run out of stock. Because they handle with this problem in their own special way, they are able to stay so cheap and outperform all of their competition. What they will do with unsold stock is either put it in one of their famous ‘mystery boxes’ or make the item appear in one of their iBOOD hunts. When a hunt takes place they will continuously offer new products on one day until they are sold out, or when a certain time has passed. Because a lot of people are waiting for that one item they are looking for, they are more likely to do impulse buying. They will often buy more then they initially wanted which results in iBOOD making a good profit on items that other companies would still have in their warehouse collecting dust. This video on Youtube, which was made by ‘stefontube’, shows the iBOOD mania very well in a funny way.
To add to the iBOOD mania, they mostly have two mystery boxes coming along during a hunt. These boxes are much talked about and created a hype and therefor very popular. You know that a box offers great value for money but you just never know what exactly is in it. This makes it very exciting to get one. By doing this iBOOD is able to get rid of their unsold items, which are still awesome products but just less wanted then the top products, and create a massive flow to their website. If you ask me this is one of the greatest marketing tricks ever by any online shop. It’s not without a reason that the site was chosen as site of the year in many different countries.
If you are curious about what kind of products you could find in a mystery box, you can check it out for yourself. Many people make unboxing video’s of their box and put it on Youtube. This is stimulated by iBOOD as you can win a prize if your unboxing video is original or funny. I have actually bought 2 iBOOD mystery boxes during a recent hunt. I will make a post about them as soon as I get them delivered and describe the content of both boxes with some pictures.
Doing some shopping on iBOOD can definitely be a lot of fun and deliver you good deals. I do have to warn you though, be careful not to end up with products you didn’t intend to buy…
