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            Patti Luciano is one of the cofounders of a website designed to help students save money.  Price savvy students started in September of 2008.  Patti is a junior at St John Fisher College majoring in communications with a minor in marketing.

            She decided to make the site for a class classed integrated marketing communications.  Patti currently works in banking and sees on a daily basis how much the economy is affecting college students. 

            Patti contributes to the site by posting blogs that consist of deals found or money saving tips.  Patti is dedicated to helping students save money.  She believes this site will help not only college students but also anybody that visits the site.

The site came up and running in September of 2008. Their goal is to get as many college students as possible to check out their site and use information from it.

The site consists of blogs, podcasts and video which includes interviews, opinions and information on money saving tips.

The site will continue to grow through out the 2008 year. The students owners of the site encourage anyone to post the deals they find or best practices of money saving.

Haley clips coupons every Sunday and will only purchase items if it is on sale.  She is constantly telling everyone where to find deals and how to get them.  She is an accounting major at Brockport so she is extremely cautious with her money. 

            In a recent interview with Haley she tells the founders of Price Savvy students all of her secret money saving tips and a day in the life of how she does it. Haley realizes what a challenge it is and loves to help others in her situation on how to save money.  She interacts with the customers at Citizens bank all the time telling people how you can make your money work for you, not work for your money.

For the past few years I’ve been tearing up old books and magazines, and selling them on eBay. Other people’s “rubbish” is earning me $20 a time – sometimes a great deal more – every single day!

It’s an easy business and items other people throw away can attract fierce bidding and incredible profits for me and other lucky sellers.

We’re selling prints and advertisements, crochet and woodworking patterns, recipe books and other niche market publications, alongside hundreds more totally different items, all taken from books, magazines and newspapers that are available in profusion and cost very little.

Let’s start with old prints, they’re incredibly good sellers, especially popular themes like: animals, sports (especially golf and horse racing), royalty, music hall artists, topographical (named locations) and children.

Very early magazines contained lots of prints, the best being Illustrated London News, The Graphic, Sketch, Sphere, and all you do is remove prints carefully, trim the rough edges, package to protect and make them more attractive, then list them on eBay. These tips will help you get started in this hugely profitable business:

 
• Frame your prints for extra add-on value. Look for old (antique and modern) picture frames at boot and garage sales, flea markets and collectors’ fairs, and make a point of visiting auctions where boxes of frames can be bought at a pittance.
• Have black and white prints and engravings hand colored and mounted or framed to increase the value of even the most common and cheapest print.
• Give a Certificate of Authenticity. This is simply a sheet of paper, with or without decorative border, which testifies that the print is original and taken from a specific source published on a particular date. The certificate is always taped lightly to the back of the print in the mount so that it cannot be removed and added to another print obtained elsewhere.
• Make your listing for the print descriptive and include details that are likely to attract bidders and be sure to include words they might use to find products like yours.
• Make sure your listings include age, theme, date and source of your prints.
• If your original book is special, say a first edition, or a limited edition, say so in your listing. To people viewing your listings it might make the difference between a sale and giving your product the miss.
• Take great care removing prints from publications. We tend to open the book midway and fold it back on itself, making it very easy to break or weaken the spine and therefore loosen the pages.
• A great place to get quality mounts very inexpensively is on eBay itself. Go to the search facility, request a search for items locally (so many available it isn’t worth looking long distance), and use keywords like: “mounts”, “photo mounts”, and wait for a nice selection of suppliers to appear, some selling items by auction, others offering “Buy It Now”.
• When you find a good supplier stick to that person and even buy their items outside of eBay without breaking eBay’s rules of course.

There’s more to it than just prints, you have the pick of dozens of different products to sell, all from old books and magazines, and just a few minutes easy work. Did I say “work”, this isn’t work, this is exciting stuff!

          For example, take the end caps. They advertise great deals which lures you into other things. Take the microwave example that they give in frontline which is priced at $30. With such a low price of $30, you already have the mindset that “Wow, this item is really cheap, everything else in the store must be too!” This is how Wal-mart gets you. One would then proceed to look at the rest of the microwaves, with the idea that they must all be the lowest price, and purchase the one that they actually want with more features. This microwave may be priced at $80 but if you go to Lowe’s you can find this same exact model for $60! But that doesn’t matter, because in your mind Wal-mart is cheaper than Lowe’s.

          Ever notice how Wal-mart changed their slogan from “Always Low prices” to “Save Money. Live Better”? This is because a study was conducted and Wal-mart was not always the low prices. Target and Kmart did not think this was fair, hence the slogan change. It is also not fair that they exploit their workers and pay the very minimal of wages to their workers internationally. So next time you think of going to Wal-mart, keep in mind that they are not the cheapest in town; it is all a marketing scheme to make you think they are.

           For more information, take a look at this article. This information is coming from John Lehman, whom worked for Wal-mart for seventeen years in four states. What you will find here is shocking!

This blog was written by Sarah

Today, November 4th, is election day. As you go out to vote today, you are not only voicing your opinions and making a statement. You can also get freebies as well! Starbucks is giving away a free tall coffee to anyone who can prove they voted. Ben& Jerrys also is giving away a free scoop of ice cream to those who get their vote out. Last but not least, if you live near a Krispy Kreme (unfortunately the Rochester area doesn’t have one anymore) you can get a free donut! So take advantage of these freebies and more important GO VOTE!!