The Deal Seeker: Bargains Are in the Bag
by Christina Tynan-Wood
I have been procrastinating. I sit down at my computer to work but find myself shopping. “Just one look at eBags.com,” I tell myself. “And then I’ll work.”
I confess, I am a hardened bag hoarder. And there is a Memorial Day weekend sale going on right now on the site with decent deals. Do I need another bag? No. Although if I get that new tablet I’m looking at, I will need something to carry it in. Right?
Since I am a haggler, and since I was on eBags anyway, I decided to negotiate some sweet, exclusive deals there on bags for tech gear.
Hedgren Bella Attache
The sweet Hedgren Bella Attache bag — in small or medium — is brand-new. It’s from a European line of bags only recently available in the U.S. And stylish Bella comes in gray, red, and black, and it has all the pockets I look for in a tech bag, each lined with a fuzzy softness that will baby and keep your fragile gear clean. The small attaché has a padded interior pocket that neatly fits a MacBook Air or the Asus Transformer Book Chi with just enough room for extras like a notebook, pen, charger, and mouse. It also has another soft pocket for a small tablet.
It’s easy on the eyes and compact enough that you won’t mind hauling it all day. The medium size is the same thing, a bit bigger, for those of you who haul a larger computer.
Just for us, eBags.com is dropping the price from its usual $119 for the small and $129 for the medium by 20 percent, starting today. See the deal on eBags.com.
SwissGear Travel Gear ScanSmart 1900
Want something less girly? Or a bag to haul it all? I also got you set up with a deal on this SwissGear Travel Gear ScanSmart Backpack 1900. It’s a big backpack with pockets for all your tech gear. It will get you to school, work, or probably even through the weekend. Use this link (just for Deal Seekers) and you will get 20 percent off the sale price, bringing your out-of-pocket cost down to $52.
Cricket Wireless flash sale
I also found a couple of deals on tech you might want to put in a bag you already own. Cricket Wireless is having a flash sale beginning today, through May 31. So if you dropped your phone and want a new one for less than it would cost to get the screen fixed, check out these price drops:
The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime drops to $129.99, for both new and current customers.
The ZTE Grand X (4G) is now $99.99.
The Motorola Moto E (LTE) is way down to $49.99.
Even the brand-new Nokia Lumia 640 (pictured), a big-screen Windows smartphone, is $129.99 today. And it comes with a free year of Office 365 Personal + Skype Calling.
Kinivo Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit
Call me the Gadget Seeker, too: You can toss the Kinivo BTC455 in your bag and convert your old car — or the rental, or whatever you end up driving — into a good imitation of a current car with smartphone integration. The gadget connects your phone to a car’s sound system via Bluetooth, so you can answer the phone hands-free and stream your own music instead of being at the mercy of local radio.
Starting today, it drops from $75 to $40, putting this right in striking distance of an impulse purchase.
