Assorted:
Respond.com
You tell them what you are looking for and they send your request out to a bunch of sellers who will contact you. Very good service.
Shopzilla is a mall site. You can get comparison pricing, reviews, etc.
Shopping.com is a mall site. You can get comparison pricing, reviews, etc.
PriceRunner does comparison shopping to find you the best prices on the Web.
PriceGrabber does comparison shopping to find you the best prices on the Web.
Smarter.com does comparison shopping to find you the best prices on the Web.
Become.com does comparison shopping to find you the best prices on the Web.
TheFind.com does a nice job of comparing prices. It also has a lot more vendors than the usual comparison sites. The site does not take payments for placement on the list.
Dealazon - daily deals at Amazon.
FatWallet Forums - newly discovered deals in a forum type environment.
SlickDeals Forums
Buzzillions - shopping site with user reviews built in.
Surprise - great collection of ideas for gifts sorted by occasion and the characteristic of the recipient.
Infomercials has links to all that good stuff sold on TV.
World Shipping Directory
Expedia - travel - book flights, car, room
ConsumerDirect - some prices seem discounted - limited variety.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Gift Shop Web Page is done in the best of taste although the toe-tag key chain is over the edge.
SpaceShots for Sale "...you have the opportunity to enjoy an astronaut's view of our world. Spectacular, brilliant satellite images taken from 450 miles up in space. These poster size digital images are out of this world..." .
TicketMaster where you can order tickets for concerts and sports events.
UPS allows you to track your shipments.
Smart Ship allows you to compare shipping charges from various shipping companies.
Yahoo's Classified Ads
Classifieds 2000 has good car ads and also has other categories of classified ads.
The IRS has a Web site which explains, among other things, how to file your tax form via the telephone.
Andy's Garage Sale has objects for sale that are usually found in your attic or garage.
America's Charities is a federation of non-profit, charitable organizations. Charitable giving is an important facet of American life, more than anywhere else in the world. This site details charitable organizations and workplace-giving campaigns.
Liberty Village Premium Outlets in Flemington, NJ.
Reading Outlet Center and Berks County Outlets
Bucks County Visitors Guide
TraderOnline is classified ads divided into 10 to 12 categories.
Farmer's Market Online tries to pattern itself after a farmer's market.
Making a Go of it on the Web has what sounds like good advice on going commercial.
The Office Station charges a finder's fee for used office furniture. You can buy or sell here.
Consumer Reports - not much for free here. They also have some blogs.
Netmarket - variety of products, well designed site, good prices
Cybershop and iMall are two of the new breed of e-malls.
Prime Outlets give you a list of stores in outlet malls, directions, etc.
DrugStore Buy everything you need online.
Unclaimed Baggage where you can buy the lost shoes of others.
Buyer's Index is a collection of links to commercial sites organized into categories with a search engine to assist you.
Custom Jigsaw Puzzles from your photograph.
SmartHome has electronic gadgets for the home.
Improvements for things around the house and garden.
BodyTrends sells healthy devices as does Human Kinetics.
Wick's End sells candles.
Carparts.com - you enter your make and model and you can buy parts for your car (as well as accessories).
Underwriters Labs Database of certified electrical products and the companies that make them.
Eathan Allen furniture.
SalesMountain shows sales that are going on at local brick and mortar stores. You select the product category and state.
SalesCircular shows sales that are going on at local brick and mortar stores. You select the product category and state.
Spree.com has a cash-back program when you shop at major vendors through their site.
eWanted - you post the price that you're willing to pay for a specific product and sellers start bidding for your bucks.
Edmund Scientific has geeky scientific products but also has cool stuff to tinker with.
Unique Gifts has some special gifts with special prices (if you know what I mean).
The Science Company sells science stuff like weather stations.
The Atomic Clock Store sells clocks, weather stations, and other somewhat geeky stuff.
Direct Casket sells caskets directly to you. No longer are you held captive by some thieving mortician.
Christmas Place sells nothing but Christmas decorations.
The Unemployed Philospher's Guild sells stuff like Freudian Slippers and the fabulous Light-Up Starry Night Pillow.
TravelSmith sells bags, gadgets, and clothing for the traveler.
Letravelstore sells bags and gadgets for the traveler.
Wonderfully Whacky Gifts has "unique and unusual gifts".
Johnson Smith Co. - has a small collection of sites that sell gadgets and unusual gifts.
Big List of Toys and Games - biglist of toys and games - has a pretty large collection of links to interesting toys, games, and gifts.
Dealtime will find the book, music, or movie you want and compare prices, including shipping, at a bunch of online stores.
Gift Certificates sells gift certificates for about 200 big name stores and restaurants. You buy 'super certificates' that the receiver can then trade in for a certificate for a specific merchant. Small charge for service.
Give Anything sells gift certificates for about 200 big name stores and restaurants. You buy 'super certificates' that the receiver can then trade in for a certificate for a specific merchant. Small charge for service.
Gift Cards sells gift cards for about 100 different merchants.
Craig's List is a mish-mash of stuff for sale, job postings, services offered, etc. Separate listings for a small number of metro areas.
Minimus sells small size stuff like samples and travel size stuff.
Archie McPhee sells ... well ... librarian action figures, meat air freshener, windup hopping lederhosen, etc.
Uncrate - a shopping blog for men who like to buy 'stuff'.
Outblush - a shopping blog for women who like to buy 'stuff'.
Mighty Goods - displays 'stuff' that you can buy on the Web. Mostly cool, but useless, stuff.
Iliketotallyloveit.com reviews gadgets and stuff that folks have voted into the list - kind of like digg but reviews gadgets instead of news.
Books:
- Amazon Books
has books for sale, short interviews with authors, books in the news, etc. They will send you e-mail notification when your favorite author publishes or a book about your favorite subject is published. Best of the big three book sites.
- Barnes & Noble Books Their prices are not as good as Amazon's but they seem to have a larger, if not different, inventory.
- Borders - the third in the big three.
- Powell's Books is big and cheap - maybe bigger and cheaper than Amazon.
- Book Close Outs has gotten good reviews and sells books cheap.
- Booksontape
- Que Books - technical books.
- mySimon searches for books, tapes, movies, and CDs. Shows a comparison of prices on various sites.
- AddAll searches for book prices in thiry online book stores.
- AllBookStores does an excellent job of searching for book prices in online book stores.
- Audible.com is a large site handling books on tape.
- Book Finder finds books for sale on the Web.
- Powells.com - new and used books for sale.
- Strand Bookstore - new and used books for sale.
- Abebooks - New and used books along with reader reviews. The site has a search feature that finds books at other sellers and compares prices although the results have a lot of hits that are duplicates or are just not useful.
Computer Stuff:
- The better online computer stores (as far as the press is concerned) are:
- Outpost.com sells computer products as well as other unrelated mechandise. Has free overnight shipping. Price gaurantee.
- CNet Shopper searches for computer products on the Web. Shows comparison prices.
- ZDNet's Computer Review includes a review of specific machines as well as the results of their annual survey of users which rates the vendors.
- Computer Shopper
from ZDNet has a wizard that helps you figure out how much computer you need.
- New Egg
sells parts, usually pretty cheap.
- TechBargains - great site for computer related bargains on the Web - coupons, percentage discounts, free shipping, etc.
- Dealsplus is a collection of current deals on tech goodies and computer equipment. The layout is not as good as TechBargains so it takes longer to find anything..
- Popdeal aggregates the hot deals from various sites that aggregate these deals.
- AntiRebate - has discounted stuff that doesn't require use of a rebate. Mostly electronic stuff.
- Dealnews.com lists current bargains - mostly computer related.
- Stealdeals lists current bargains - mostly electronic.
- TechForLess has a rapidly changing inventory but the prices are worth checking out.
- Comp-U-Plus has very good prices for hardware and software.
- Shopper.net has a nice collection of reviews linked to stores where you can purchase the products.
- CNet Rebate Center - on the CNET Shopper site, has information on current rebate offers.
- The Tech Zone has hardware reviews, forums, how-to, and a collection of hot deals.
- Furniture Online has computer furniture.
- Affiliated Remarketing and PC Today sell used equipment. And PC Appraiser can help you find out it the deal is worth it.
- Circuit City
- About.com Reviews has links to reviews of computers by brand name.
- Cyber Guys sell all kinds of computer parts.
- J&N Computer Service sells parts, CPU/motherboard bundles, etc.
- Minatour sells parts, CPU/motherboard bundles, etc. They have a form that lets you piece together a PC.
- Motherboards.org reviews motherboards.
- PC Power and Cooling sells power supplies and cooling fans.
- PCWorld Price Grabber searches the Web for specific equipment and gives comparative prices.
- Monarch Computer sells computer parts including motherboard/CPU bundles.
- Guru3d reviews video cards and has some troubleshooting information.
- Everything USB sells stuff that you can attach to your computer via its USB ports.
- Second Wind PC sells refurbished equipment.
- sDiego sells refurbished PC's.
- CNet's Used Stuff has links to refurbished PC equipment.
- Bargain Finder - from PCWorld, has a list of deals on computers and related equipment. Some deals are very short lived.
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Catalogs:
- CatalogCity is dedicated to catalogs. It has a large index and has samples of the actual catalog so you can see what it looks like.
- Free Catalogz has 100+ free catalogs.
- Catalog Link has free catalogs in many categories.
- iVillage has items from various catalogs in many categories with links to the catalog site.
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Art:
- Art.com This site lets you pick posters and reproductions of paintings which you can frame and mat using their interactive tools. Very nice site although it can be tedious to browse since they only show 6 pictures at a time.
- Vintage PosterWorks where you can buy posters from days of old.
- Museum Shop sells goods associated with museums like books, tapes, jewelry, etc. Very unusual stuff.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Store
- Paintings Direct
- All About Art- sells art - mostly reprints, very few posters.
- Tides of Timesells photos taken in Cape May.
- EasyArt sells prints and photography.
- Poster Shop
- Art Print Collection
- Art Prints Inc
- eBay is the largest and includes a person-to-person auction.
- Wigix is an eBay wannabe.
- GetItNext - is a very nice eBay front-end that makes it easier to use eBay.
- Last Minute Auction - eBay auctions with less than an hour to go.
- Swapthing Before you get into the auctions, you might want to consider a swap.
- How to Protect Yourself When Using an Auction from ZDNet.
- Good Advice on Auctions from Cnet.
- OnSale sells new computer, audio, and photo equipment at auction prices. Now run by Egghead.
- PC World's Auction Article is a great introduction to auction sites and includes tips on how to bid, how to avoid being burned, etc.
- Priceline Bid on airline tickets, groceries, gasoline, loans, etc.
- BidNAsk is another auction style sales site.
- USA Web's Auction Sites is a 'portal' to a lot of auction related material and sites.
- Auction Addict is a person-to-person auction site.
- OnSale sells new computer, audio, and photo equipment at auction prices.
- Surplus Auction is an Egghead site.
- Universal Studios Auction - where you can bid on various objects from their movies.
- Auction Guide Reviews of auction sites, tips, how to bid - this is a pretty good introduction to the auction circus.
- E-Escrow is an escrow service. You pay them to act as the middleperson in your Web dealings.
- CNET Computer Auction is a full service site with escrow service, reviews on sellers, etc.
- NexTag - allows you to bid - has charts showing prices and bids - good information about what a decent price should be for specific products, although the categories are limited. Also has a price history chart showing a product's cost over time so you can get an idea what it would cost.
- Auctions is an auction hub.
- Sell It On The Web has advice for the newbie.
- Strong Numbers If you want to sell or buy something, this site will search the auction sites to find the price history of similar items.
- The Bank Rate shows you credit card rates at various institutions and has a search engine to help you find one that meets your criteria.
- The Cardtrak Online has surveys of rates on cards, plus promotions, industry news, and helpful hints.
- The Credit Cards has information about credit cards in general. Also, has a search engine for credit cards and rates. Has news on credit unions, credit companies, etc. Has best credit cards with frequent flier miles, best with rebates, best platinum, etc.
- The ABC Guides has various information on credit cards.
- MasterCard
- Visa
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