Apr
07
Automatically Avoid Spending Money on WSOs
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WSOs. Warrior Special Offers. The bane of many people’s life. And the love of many credit card companies.
If you don’t know what they are, don’t worry. I’m not supposed to link to the site in question, so I’ll stick by that even though thousands of others don’t.
I’ve started a new process when I see an interesting WSO:
1. Copy and paste the initial post outlining the WSO, pasting it into my outlining software I use for all note-taking.
2. Make a note of the author’s username on the site, and when it was posted.
3. Go through what I’ve pasted, and make sure I’ve got all relevant URLs pasted OK
Save my money for a rainy day. Come back weeks later and contact the WSO author to see if there is still an offer. If not, shucks, them’s the breaks. Far better to spend $40 on a piece of software that I’m planning to use tomorrow, than get it for $20 and then never use it because I change my plans.
April 14th, 2007 at 8:38 am
“Far better to spend $40 on a piece of software that I’m planning to use tomorrow, than get it for $20 and then never use it because I change my plans.”
Exactly!
Same thought hit me too (although not just in regard to WSO’s), seeing all the unused stuff piling up on my HD, and reflecting on how much it all cost.
April 14th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Azam,
Thanks for the comment.
I had an even bigger shock when I started using my new File Tagger software, and saw how many items I could NOT flag as having been read.
Ouch!
Andy