Holiday Shopping Guides
This site shares information about sales or other special offers. The “Hot Deals” forum has tips from veteran bargain hunters on money-saving offers they’ve discovered.
Another place to find out about sales or other special offers that are not widely advertised.
This site lets you skip combing the Sunday paper for advertisments and lets you know what’s on sale at local stores. You can choose national retailers or limit your search to stores in your state.
SalesCircular keeps you up to date on which stores are featuring sales on which items. It also lets you search for specific categories of products, such as GPS units, digital cameras, MP3 players or sweaters.
PriceSpider lets you check the price history for various items at hundreds of stores across the country for the last six months.
This alerts you when the price drops on a product you want to buy. You can set the site to search at one store or hundreds of online stores in its database, contacting you when your item reaches a price level that you indicate.
This site lets you compare the cost of shipping that package using DHL, FedEx, UPS, the U.S. Postal Service and Purolator. Just put in the “to” and “from” zip codes and the weight and view your options, listed by carrier, based on delivery speed.