When I caught up with my friend Sean at a local coffee shop, he vowed not to make any New Year's resolutions. He joked, "I'm doing everything right." But my friend holds an MBA from a top Swedish business school and is underemployed. Somehow our ...

Whether you're buying or selling, we're all looking to win when it comes to online shopping. But if you really want to find a great deal, you need to move your emotions away from the mouse pad. Take it from an experienced online shopper, you have ...

Julia Scott of Bargainbabe.com says when it comes to finding the best prices, sometimes knowing what to say is as important as knowing where to shop. "I've negotiated deals on so many things, T-shirts, hotel rooms, just by asking" says Scott. ...

You can negotiate anything. American negotiator Herb Cohen wrote these immortal words more than 30 years ago. Was he right or was he right? Whenever we go shopping, we take for granted the prices posted on the goods we're looking for. Some of us, ...

Mundo Media has relaunched its social commerce site Living Deal with an aim to promote small business and reward consumers who make referrals with cash. The Living Deal website enables small businesses to promote food, drink, attractions and ...

The Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) is reminding consumers that realtors' commissions and contracts are negotiable - and always have been. "Correcting misconceptions about commissions is something that is very common for realtors," said ...

I always think of fall as the time to visit antique shops. Maybe it's the romance of the falling leaves and wood fire smells that I associate with looking around at old objects -- a harkening back to simpler, pre-digital times. (Although in truth I'd ...

These offers usually come early in a year. It's logical: having tried to make everybody's Christmas, many of us overextend ourselves and are close to fainting when it comes to opening our credit card statements. And that's when we see ads and ...