Several months ago, I contracted with an accountant through Elance to help me with my books. I was using GnuCash at the time and she was willing to give it a try. (I have used GnuCash for several years in my business and it suited me well.) My accountant was able to help me to a point, but I finally realized that I needed to switch to an industry standard accounting package if I was to continue to work with outsourced help.

On the recommendation of my accountant, I am switching to QuickBooks. She recommended that I buy either the 2006, 2007, or 2008 version on eBay to save money. I buy and sell on eBay, so this sounded like a good idea. For about a week, I watched some auctions, hoping to get a bargain. This wasn’t working out so good. Older versions of QuickBooks were selling close to the retail price of new versions!

So it was on to one of my favorite sites for price shopping, NexTag. I found better prices here and even started to purchase from one of the companies listed. Then, just before completing the checkout process, I decided to try amazon.com. Here, I found the best price yet for QuickBooks Pro 2009 ! It was even better then eBay’s prices for QuickBooks Pro 2007.

It just goes to show that it pays to shop around. I’m going to place my order now.