All, I see many people posting "deals" on the boards that are easily beaten by a quick search on any of the top price search engines. Hopefully this list will save some fellow bargain hunters from wasting their time and money sifting through shady or junky hot deal threads. This also has a list of eTailer review sites that will help the savvy shopper from getting defrauded.
Remember to post the full price before rebate + approximate shipping on any deal you post! Sometimes shady dealers will tack on $30 worth of shipping that will kill a deal... Key is we should be here to help each other, not for self-promotion.
Full credit goes to GeneStarWind, formerly of EOCF, for putting the vast majority of this list together!!!
Comparison Shopping Search Engines
Remember to post the full price before rebate + approximate shipping on any deal you post! Sometimes shady dealers will tack on $30 worth of shipping that will kill a deal... Key is we should be here to help each other, not for self-promotion.
Full credit goes to GeneStarWind, formerly of EOCF, for putting the vast majority of this list together!!!
Comparison Shopping Search Engines
- Pricegrabber Be warned: do not trust their site rating system
- Pricewatch Granddaddy of tech websites, still excellent for tech price comparisons
- Froogle Be sure to check the rating of any Froogle store on Resellerratings
- Yahoo! Shopping Both Yahoo! and Froogle are good for cutthroat prices. Yahoo! has a few exclusive stores and you will sometimes get more hits than the catchall selection of stores on Froogle.
- Shopping
- Bizrate
- c|net Shopper
- FatWallet One of the original forum based and the largest bargain communities online. Most deals surface here first, then move to other websites. They also have a system of "Fat Cash" that will give you a discount at participating eTailers, in addition to other discounts.
- Slick Deals good deals
- Bensbargains lots of tech bargains
- Techbargains mostly tech bargains
- DealOne Posts a daily list of good deals
- DealSea Posts a daily list of good deals
- BargainShare Another good forum-based site.
- GotApex Dell deals
- Cheap Stingy Bargains coupons, price search engine
- SecretPrices price searching engine, can have better prices than the rest; they include coupons
- Anandtech Hot Deals Tech forum's deal section
- Overclockers Cyber Deals Tech forum's deal section
- EOCF Great Deals Tech forum's deal section
- PCPer Hot Deals & Sponsor Specials Tech forum's deal section
- Reseller Ratings The best review system on the net. Their reviews require an invoice, which help prevent etailers from inflating their own stores ratings and keeping things honest
- BBB (Better Business Bureau) An influential organization that is a good place to lodge a complaint. Also has site ratings and complaint histories.
- BizRate Check their customer and product satisfaction rating here.
- Yahoo! Shopping Read the actual reviews
- FatWallet store ratings
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