I agree, great thread Maizey. I use most of these already. I would definitely add http://www.freestufftimes.com to the list as well.

great thread, I just sent it to all my friends!

nonprofitshoppingmall.com, everyday giving starts here.

Everybody likes to get %%% sales discount.
Here is a great opportunity (for our US friends) to give these discounts to nonprofit-organisations of your flavour. I'm sure,there is something similar for other regions. Because I have Fibromyalgia I have chosen the National Fibromyalgia Association as an example. http://www.fmaware.org/site/PageServer
From the homesite:
"I found a great way to support our favorite causes. By shopping from this site, a portion of every dollar we spend goes directly to a nonprofit organization that we choose. This site has all our favorite stores - with their same great products, services and prices and no extra fees. Best of all, we get a hand in directing who benefits from the shopping we already do. It's so easy to use we should start here for everything we buy online."

http://nonprofitshoppingmall.com/shop/index/

Price!pinx is about saving you money with just one click. How? You tell us the products you want to buy online, we monitor the price, and send you a price drop alert right away. So easy! It is a free service my aunt uses. Comes in handy for buying PC parts/ cameras etc. She uses it a lot. It's only US unless it changed recently.

And if you are going to buy anything on line check out BBBOnLine a free service or for brick and mortars
Better Business Bureaus for both US and CA.

TY Maizey i am sure these links will help me when i need them much is appreciated:) Keep up the awesome work

Boy maizy.. you sure compiled that list quickly!! It's GREAT! You really DO know how to put things together, so again I'm quoting your statement "I am fairly new to forums and not too certain on how they are structured or what works well". To use an old saying, "You've come a long way baby"!! LOL *-)

I'm afraid that by following up on all the links we're getting here, who has time to play their favorite games? Just kidding, of course!

Lee - All of the price protector sites will notify you via email if there is a price drop. I used Price Protector in November when I bought a camera at Amazon. The price came down 3X and each time I received an email from Price Protector. I notified Amazon ASAP and each time my credit card balance was credited within 24 hours. I saved a total of over $10! I've also saved a couple of bucks on other purchases. :)
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funkymom, LeKanaw & copmom - You are welcome. Saving money & getting things at a bargain are always fun. I can't wait for summer and the rummage/garage sales!

Everyone likes a bargain, if you goto places like regnow you can pick it up (software that is) a lot cheaper than via the website.

The amazon deal is great, you just got to keep checking close of day for 30 days to make sure you can get some monies back.

Not had one yet, hopefully will soon.

Thank u MzDaze
With the *rapid* & *accurate* (heumm hemmmm) search engine of this site, finding anything is almost impossible.
You really did an excellent job putting everything 2geder here. Already BM'ed!!

funkymom - Thank you. It took a little longer to put together than I thought it would. Had to make certain that the links didn't break the rules. Hopefully, they are all OK. :)

maizey- you rock!

any site that i can think of off-hand, is already included in your list.

thank you.
:D

Recently, there's been some forum users who have been looking for tips and advice on buying printers, cameras and such. In response, other users have given their opinions and links to finding the best deals and product reviews. I thought it would be helpful to centralize all of our links for locating product deals, coupons, reviews, price protection for price drops and specialized searches. So after some discussion with other users and administration, here is that thread.

Below is my contribution. Please, add your links and opinions.

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Please, do not post links to vendor sites.

When posting links, we must abide by the GOTD Forum Rules. Pay particular attention to the following:

Please report any posts/links in this thread that are suspect of breaking the forum rules.
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Time Sensitive Deals & Coupons:

Dealhack - Free online coupons, coupon codes, rebates and shopping deals. Motto: We search...You save

The Bargainist - Deals, Sales, Tips, Freebies & Coupons. About: "From gadgets to clothes, you'll always read about the hottest bargains, sales, coupons, and freebies right here. Updates several times per day."

Ben's Bargains - Motto: "Where ghetto dogs come for the lowdown on deals."

Deal Catcher - Free online coupons & deals. Motto: "catch the best deals online"

Deals Plus - Hot deals, online coupons & coupon codes. User submitted deals.

Slick Deals - About: "Slickdeals.net was started in November, 1999. Our goal is to feature the best deals found by the deal community." (Note: This one is via copmom!)

Strange Deals - About: "StrangeDeals is where shopping meets the long tail. We seek out the strangest, weirdest, and most interesting deals on the web and bring them directly to you."

Brad's Deals - About: "BradsDeals, published by Brad Wilson, finds and writes about online shopping deals and coupons."

Product Reviews:

alaTest - Worldwide source for reviews and product tests.

DP Reviews - Digital camera reviews and news.

DigitalCameraInfo.com - "features free, fun, and unbiased reviews to help people decide which digital camera would be best for them."

Steve's Digacam - Motto: "The consumer's best source of digital camera information and news"

epinions.com - About: "It is a premier consumer reviews platform on the Web and a reliable source for valuable consumer insight, unbiased advice, in-depth product evaluations and personalized recommendations."

Consumer World - About: "Consumer World is a public service, non-commercial* guide with over 2000 of the most useful consumer resources." Reviews, compare prices, bargains.

Consumer and Price Protection:

The Consumerist - Motto: Shoppers Bite Back. An independent blog on consumerism biased towards the consumer. Also, has links to good deals.

Price Protector - Motto: Get Your Money Back!

RefundPlease.com - Motto: "Helping you get a price drop refund"

FlamingoWorld - Online Coupons, Compare Prices, Discounts, Deal Alerts and Price Drops.

Amazing Refund: Amazon Price Drop Protection

Amazing Refund UK: Amazon.co.uk Price Drop Protection

Specialized Search Tools:

spotzon - Search for items with free shipping at amazon.

Search Ebay for Misspellings, mispellings or even misspelings. - "Hundreds of auctions on Ebay get overlooked because of mis-spelled item names and descriptions. If you can find these auctions, you stand a good chance of getting a low price for the items, simply because other people can't find the auction."

Buyers Index - About: "Search 20,000 Web shopping sites and mail order catalogs with over 300 million product
offerings for your home or business."

DVD Price Search - About:"Besides keeping you informed of the latest DVD coupons, bargains and specials on the web, DVD Price Search helps you compare prices on the newest and hottest DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies."

PriceSCAN.com - About: "your unbiased guide to finding the lowest prices on books, computers, digital photography, electronics, prescription drugs, home & garden, movies, music, office equipment, sporting goods, video games, watches and more.

retrevo - About: "We operate a smart but simple web site that makes finding, buying and using electronics fun. Our vision is to simplify and enhance people's digital lifestyle."

I buy a lot of their products. Just buying one gets you in to a lot of their deals. If you wait on their upgrades most of them are around $9.99. Which is really nice if you have 4 machines and want to have a license for every machine.

WOP3 is a great program. I like it better than their version 4.

I haven't bought anything from them, though I am on their newsletter and they do give freebies from time to time. Their latest gift Ashampoo Winoptimizer Platinum 3, a good program, but it isn't this on this computer it's on another one in the house.

Interesting. I have NOT bought anything from them using this offer, but I HAVE purchased other products from the at very good prices through their newsletter offers and I have been satisfied with the products. Perhaps a better route would be to sign up for their newsletters to get their special offers. I get about one per week and they are easily ignored if I am not interested. Just go to the main web page and look for a Newsletter link.

Ashampoo annoy me when they do these things.

I offered them £3.00 for a product which was $9.99 so at todays exchange rate £4.40.

They refused it, then a week later it was then given away for free, made no sense to me.

I will not advise anyone going via these offers as they take your name, address, email, debit/credit card details before telling you NO!

Can you trust them with your details stored on servers?

Thanks for the post VampireRat. Its nice to see ashampoo offering there software that way. I wonder though..........could it be because there products are one of the more easier to.................?

http://www.ashampoo-root03.com/muao/muao_en.htm

All Ashampoo products seem to be available.

"Just offer what the products are worth to you. If we accept your
offer, we will email you the registration codes for the software.
If we don't accept your offer, we will notify you via email.

MAKE YOUR LOW BID NOW - WE MAY ACCEPT IT TODAY!"

Even for the expensive products, I suggest you start at $9.99. They have sold some of them for that price in the past. Not accepted? Try $14.99.