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Welcome to Chris W. Smith's Shopping Page!
RETAIL STORES
Amazon This gargantuan store lists over 3 million books, CD's, and videos. Listen to CD's prior to purchase and receive special discounts and shopping incentives.
CDnow The site is driven by a search engine that enables searches by musical artist, album title, song title, or record label ikeyword format. The enormous database of musical information is cross referenced in similar fashion.
Land's End and L. L. Bean Men's and women's clothing.
Olympic Mountain Gems, Inc. Gemstones and jewelry.
TARGET This department store is my favorite place to buy clothes (shoes and Honors™ brand clothes) and electronics (where I bought WebTv™).
Victoria's Secret Lingerie
BARGAIN SUPERSTORES / MALLS
7-24 Outlet This site's creators claim they scour the Internet looking for bargains, and most of the offerings are technologically oriented, such as cellular phones and DVD's. Nearly all the products are last year's models, but most offer full product warranties.
The All-Internet Shopping Directory Another Internet shopping directory.
Bargains Online This online bargain mall offers a wide vaiety of discount offers, with a specials / discounts link for a view of current specials.
BuyCentral This site combines an online shopping guide, online shopping search agent, and a bargain news center in one convenient location.
eShop Microsoft's electronic shopping guide.
iMALL A directory style menu of shopping choices containing a search engine.
SalesSales.com This online shopping search site states it "continually monitors the Internet looking fo ronline merchants that are offering deep discounts and specials on their products and services." A nice feature of this site is hourly updates. Products featured when we visited ranged from antiques to computers.
Web Warehouse Your directory of world wide web shopping sites includes events, tickets, and other hard to categorize items.
SHOPPING AGENTS
Bottom Dollar Wide variety of categories, but limited to number of web pages searched.
Excite Product Finder ("Jango") searches a number of major discounters for a wide variety of products; allows search by maximum price.
KillerApp This site is restricted to computers, but offers Speed Dial feature that facilitates searching.
Life Minders E-mail reminder service reminds you of release dates for your favorite book, video, game, and music releases as well as reminders of personal holidays (anniversaries, birthdays, etc.) and other maintenance reminders (auto maintenance, etc.).
My Simon Scans more than 1,200 retail sites for products in a variety of categories.
Perfect Present Picker Select a gift for your Secret Santa, Secret Admirer, Boss, or picky relative by answering a survey about the recipient and shopping for suggested items based on the survey results.
Price Watch Specializes in computer equipment and electronics and is an excellent resource for those items.
Roboshopper Limited number of categories; allows users to create a customized start page with links to favorite sites.
Shopfind No listed categories; provides a general search by keyword only.
Web Market Nice variety of categories; searches only the top online merchants.
ONLINE SHOPPING GUIDES
Consumer World this helpful site provides a lising of hundreds of bargain and discount sites, a price comparison agent, product reviews, and more.
eSmarts This independent shopping guide offers a free e-mail newsletter packed with discount offers, bargain-hunting tips, Internet coupons, and merchandise directories. eSmarts is a personal shopping assistant.
DISCOUNTS, COUPONS, FREEBIES, AND NEWSLETTERS
U-pons Planet U
is a marketing company that specializes in "electronic consumer promotions".
Catalogworld
CoolSavings
Offers online coupons and aims to become the destination for savings before
consmers shop both online and offline. Sign up for the CoolSavings Squealer,
a free newsletter that keeps you up-to-date on special offers.
e-centives Gives members a personal account
area for storing special offers when ready to shop.
ValuPage Print out the online grocery coupons
for use in local stores.
The Internet Coupon Directory Network
with other coupon users at the Swap board.
Jelly Belly President Reagan's favorite
company mails free samples to U.S. and Canadian addresses daily.
Totally Free Stuff From the home page,
choose one of 30 categories from Audio Tapes to Web Page Designs in which
to troll for freebies.
Weekly Freebie Compilation
Archived and weekly updated links to sites offering free products.
No Junk Free Stuff Offers a free
newsletter and features a list of freebies; each freebie is accompanied
by brief paragraph about what you are signing up to receive, the information
you will need to provide, whether there are flavor, size, or product choices,
and if the item ever arrived.
Free Mania Free movie rentals, music CD's,
and printable coupons.
#1 Freebies Most of the freebies
at Phree Ryder are the result of signing up for a service or agreeing
to surf the Web and report back, but there are a few notable exceptions.
Petrix.com Free t-shirts!
Suzi Coupons Coupon Central with
direct links to manufacturers websites.
Catalogs Free catalogs delivered to your
mailbox from the clearing house.
Unsubscribe Appeal
to Popular Demand to have your name removed from junk mail and telemarketers
lists.
