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We were recently in an Izod outlet store doing some shopping and looking for some great deals. If you time it right , the deals at Izod can be even better and this is why we decided to write a post about the savings and more when you use text messaging.

We went to IZOD on Nov 11th, Veterans day when the sales are supposed to be the best. Well imagine buying a sweater for $75, then having it discounted first by 70% and then have an additional 30% added to it. Pretty good deal , right. Well it gets even better.

I had previously provided my email id to IZOD and they routinely send out additional discount coupons which if you can take advantage of them, make it a pretty good deal. In this case they sent us an additional coupon of 21% off if we shopped on Nov 10th or 11th. So now  a $75 sweater is discounted down to $12.71!!!!!!!

Text Messaging Saves Money

Now the reason I decided to add this particular post to this blog is of course text messaging messaging that almost every store is using in some manner these days.  Well while I am waiting in line, the store broadcasts a message over the loud speaker system advertising that if you send a test message to Izod, they will send a message back to you giving you a $5 coupon back to you which you can apply to your purchase. It gets spread over the cost of everything we are buying so in the case of the sweater we got another 53 cents off the cost of the sweater bringing it down to $12.18. What a deal!

Text Messaging Costs

Now in this case the test msg I sent cost me ten cents and the one I received cost me 10 cents. Pretty small and the rate you pay really depends on the deal that you have with your phone company. So my $5 coupon cost me 20 cents so I netted another $4.80. Pretty good deal for sending a text message. I sent a third text message to stop future messages to avoid having to pay further costs for text messages received.

Canadian vs. American Text messaging costs for Short code messages

So the bottom line is that there are times when it makes sense to sign up for short message code programs. It also appears that it is Canadian phone companies who are doing the gouging and not American phone companies. The same message we think would have cost $2 per message if received on a Canadian mobile phone .

If anyone can confirm this we would really like to hear about it. We do  not want to spread incorrect information, however it sure looks this way to us that Canadian phone companies are gouging the public. Let us know if you have had a similar experience.

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