You are living at the best time in history to purchase merchandise at the best price. Twenty five years ago I bought my first evaporative cooler. Evaporative Coolers, or Swamp Coolers as they are also called, are not common enough that you would see sales or advertisements at most stores. This would require people to drive to a hardware store or air conditioning supply house to purchase a Cooler. Because of this you would often would buy the Cooler at the first store that had them. Now we can sit at our home or work and type in a few words on our computer and up comes dozens, or sometimes hundreds of businesses that offer a product at a competitive price. You can save money buying any product this way.

The first thing that you will need to do is decide on the Cooler brand and model number that is best for you. You may have a brand that you have used in the past and prefer. I prefer Champion or Tradewinds when buying residential Evaporative Coolers. Champion and Essick carry a large line of commercial Coolers. Most people will not remember the model numbers of Evaporative Coolers. If you are replacing an old Cooler, usually you can find a model number label somewhere on the outside of the Cooler unit. Finding a model number online is very easy. Let"s say you were looking for a residential Evaporative Cooler for a 1500 square foot home. Type in Tradewinds Coolers on Google, Yahoo or any other search engine you prefer. I just did this and using Google I received 130,000 results. The first page showed the manufacturers website and 7 businesses with websites that sold Tradewinds Coolers. Most of these businesses had a color picture of each Tradewinds Cooler along with a description of the Cooler, price, and the size home each unit would cool. Some of these businesses sold larger commercial Coolers as well as residential units. One of the businesses toward the bottom of the first page even had the online brochure exactly like the ones that come with a new unit.

When you see the right Cooler for your home or business I recommend checking at least the first page of businesses which will give you around seven different prices for the Cooler. Make sure that you e-mail each business and ask for the shipping cost to your zip code. Even though the Cooler prices may be very similar I have seen over a hundred dollars difference in these businesses shipping costs on the same residential Cooler. As you can see it could save you money to spend a little time online while shopping for Residential, Commercial, or Portable Evaporative Coolers.