Beth Pinsker

Beth Pinsker is the editorial director of dealnews.com and was formerly the editor of AOL's WalletPop.com. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters and spends her days thinking about saving money.

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Online Shopping Guide to Geek Chic

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How much of a premium are you willing to shell out for something as cool as a Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter?

Why the Best Online Customer Service Is Invisible

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Forget customer service rankings. Think how satisfied you'd be if you picked online stores that simply worked right in the first place.

How to Snag Free or $1 Summer Beach Reads

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If your vacation plans include a little light summer reading, you couldn’t ask for lighter fare this year. While the downloads might be wispier than air itself, most books, digital downloads or not, still come with a hefty price tag.

5 Ways to Stretch Your Summer Vacation Dollars

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Fears of a double-dip recession are no doubt crippling a lot of people’s summer travel plans. Between small business owners who are canceling their vacations altogether to families planning yet another year of staycations, this can be pretty sour news to swallow. But if there’s anything we’ve learned from the past several years of recession, it’s that there are ways to get around the high costs of anything, from buying a new huge flat-screen TV to traveling in style, as long as you follow a few frugal rules.

What’s the Best Stuff to Buy in June?

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Movie tickets, 3-D Blu-ray players and tools for dad, for starters. But avoid video games and anything too summery.