These are some favorite online shopping websites and tools for finding great Christmas gifts and discounts. These online shopping resources include price comparison search engines, cashback programs, Firefox add-ons, coupons and promotional code directories, deal websites and forums, gift card depots, and other places for finding great holiday sales and savings.
Gifts.com – This website makes shopping for that hard to buy for person a snap. It takes a unique approach to shopping for others by categorizing gifts according to personality type, age, gender, and other demographics to help you make a wise shopping decision.
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PriceAdvance Firefox Add-on – This extraordinary tool runs in the background of your Firefox browser as your shopping online and displays a small pop up price comparison window from other stores when a better price is found for the item you are viewing.
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RetailMeNot – A coupon, promotional code, and rebates website that makes it very easy to find great discounts for all sorts of products and services. The discounts are voted on by users according to their working status. Thus if a coupon or promotional code is no longer valid, it will be voted down and the success rate of use will be poor. Hence, great working discounts are destined to rise to the top of the list, making it quick and easy to save a few extra bucks on gifts.
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Live Search Cashback – Microsoft’s Live Cashback program takes the commissioned sales it makes from merchants and passes it on to you instead of keeping it. It has also rolled this whole concept in an comparison price search engine. Thus you will always be able to not only find the best price for any gift but you’ll be able beat it with the extra cashback savings you’ll receive.
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Dealighted – If you’re looking for some excellent last minute special savings and super hot deals this is the place for you. Dealighted scours the web’s most popular deal websites and forums to deliver you the creme de la creme of the best available online shopping deals.
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Amazon – This is a no brainer and has to be on the list because Amazon can usually beat any price online and it does not a merchant member of the Microsoft’s Live Cashback program. Amazon also has a wealth of user reviews and other indispensibly helpful shopping information.
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Shopping.com – Still one of the best shopping comparison websites around that is easy to browse and offers some great features like letting you compare different brands of products and helping your narrow your choices based on categorical specifications for a given type of product.
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SkyMall – Made popular through their airline shopping catalogs, this online store offers unique and cool gifts, gadgets, and home innovations that you won’t find anywhere else.
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eBay – It’s not just for auctions anymore; eBay has moved to more of fixed pricing strategy to compete with the likes of Amazon. Thus you can purchase things faster and find quick deals. This could be an excellent option for finding post Christmas deals as well since prices will be lowered and people will be trying to offload gifts they didn’t need or want.
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Gift Cards – An easy go to solution for hard to buy for people or mass gift mailings. This can save you time and money while at the same time giving the recipient the flexibility to purchase a gift for his/her self from any merchant.
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I have used Gifts.com before – a really great site. I used it last christmas because i wanted to find the right gift for each of my family members and it worked out just fine. Everyone loved their gifts and I was happy and my money was well spent.
Twitter/Share/BookmarkI occasionally go to Ebay and I’ve heard that RetailMeNot.com is a Hot site. My favorite site though is Dealio.com – they have a price comparison toolbar that I can use right from my browser. That’s one of the things I like about it. You should consider adding it to your list making it 11
I find the web site http://www.buyvenue.com to be a great help when I want to shop online and find best products at best prices.
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