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Shopping, Travel, and Other
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Consumer Assistance Verify your retailers and service providers, and check up on manufacturers and prices. |
Online Auction of Everything At least, almost everything. Be very very sure you know what you're buying! If you are careful, excellent results will obtain. |
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Books Online bookselling has been excellent since early days of the Web. |
Surplus & Other
Creativity at
Relatively Low Cost These companies specialize in interesting items at low cost, by way of manufacturers' closeouts, seconds, et cetera. Lots of interesting stuff here, particularly if you like to build things. |
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Computer Equipment and Supplies Excellent for good prices in general, and for hard-to-find parts, and also, ink and toner. |
Travel Airlines, lodging, and car rentals are very smooth online these days. |
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Musical Very useful for anything you can't buy locally. Also in here is a source of excellent pro audio equipement at unusual low prices. |
Miscellaneous Shopping Other items. At the moment, this includes large general web stores, gadgetry, and a great source of rechargeable batteries and chargers. |
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Package Tracking Most online sellers will provide you with a tracking number, and here?s where to use it. |
Miscellaneous Services Other services. At the moment, this includes two methods of sending USPS mail directly from your computer. |
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Better Business
Bureau
Online Check your online retailers here. |
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ConsumerGuide Lots of excellent product review information here. Far better than Consumer Reports. Their Automotive and Consumer Goods sections are especially excellent, and as far as we know, unique. |
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NADAguides.com Check market-standard vehicle pricing and research data, both new and used |
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Digital
Camera
HQ Reviews of possibly every digital camera made. |
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BAMM (Books-A-Million) Excllent book store, with better prices on lots of new books than any other source we've seen. |
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Barnes & Noble Very good for new books, both online and offline. |
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Amazon.com The original online book store. Still very good. A very wide variety of used books and other general merchandise is now also being sold here. For out of print books most especially, this site is excellent. |
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BibleCo A very good place to buy Bibles and related items; good selection, prices, and shipping. |
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alibris The very best place online to buy used books. alibris is extremely thorough, one can buy from its own stock as well as from other sources; and prices are very good. Do choose carefully; shipping prices vary a whole lot from copy to copy. |
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CDW General computer parts, highly reliable. |
Price-Less
Inkjet
For inkjet ink (also often, laser toner), very good prices, low shipping costs, and fast service |
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Axion
Technologies General and hard-to-find computer parts. |
supermediastore.com For laser toner and inkjet ink, very good prices, low shipping costs, and fast service |
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PC Parts Unlimited Excellent parts at low prices. |
cleansweepsupply.com Lots of supplies, including inkjet ink & laser toner, known for fast service |
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| Pacific Geek Great stuff, some of it rather unusual; great prices. |
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| Price Watch Search many suppliers for good prices. |
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JDR Microdevices General computer and electronic parts. High quality. |
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Travelocity Check worldwide flight prices, book flights and set up reservations for lodging, rent cars, and much more, for a very large number of destinations |
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MapQuest Online road maps and driving directions, hotels and dining info, within the USA |
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VacationFun.com Online vacation travel resource, excellent for Missouri and several other places |
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Flyfish.com Fly fishing resource guide, locations means methods and equipment, Missouri and many other places are well-covered |
| Musician's
Friend Musical instruments and equipment of many kinds. U.S.A. site. |
| Coast
to Coast Music Harmonicas, guitars, and other instruments and accessories sold online. U.S.A. site. |
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Minstrels Music Many different musical instruments sold online. In the U.K. Excellent ability to deliver harmonicas not available in the U.S.A., e.g., the entire Tombo line. |
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Elderly Instruments An excellent place to shop for acoustical instruments of all kinds. U.S.A. site. |
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Sheet Music
Direct Buy, download, and view first-page demos of sheet music in a great many different genre. |
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Parts Express Good pro audio and other electronic equipment at excellent prices, with excellent service too. |
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eBay The first and almost certainly the best. Just about anything can be had on eBay, though one must be careful. The only other downsides are eBay's restrictions on payment methods, and high sellers' fees. |
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Yahoo! Auctions The only known major competitor to eBay. Not as large yet, but is often worth a look. |
| American Science & Surplus |
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Computer
Surplus
Outlet
Computer parts at low prices. Not the newest parts, but the vast majority are not obsolete. |
| Forest City Surplus |
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Alltronics All electronics, mostly components. |
| Federal Express |
| UPS |
| Airborne Express |
| U.S. Postal Service |
| Precious
Plunder Stainless steel and Czech crystal jewelry. If you know a woman with long hair, take a good look at their Fob Hairpieces. |
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Clean
Sweep
Supply Many different kinds of products, at very good prices. Very fast service. Free shipping on orders $40 or more. Most items are not in the categories on the front page, so be sure to try the search box. |
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Yahoo! Shopping All sorts of shopping online, courtesy of Yahoo |
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CDnow A great music store on the Internet. Also has videotapes and DVD. |
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Edmund Scientific on
the
Web Interesting techno-gadgets, unusual toys, and professional optics of many kinds. |
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Thomas
Distributing This is a truly excellent source of NiMH (nickel metal hydride) rechargeable batteries and chargers. They come in all standard sizes, and are immensely better than the NiCD (nickel cadmium) rechargeables people have been used to for many years. NiMH rechargeables hold a lot more power and can be recharged many many more times than NiCD?s. And this place has NiMH?s for far less money than any retail outlet we have seen. |
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NetGram Send U.S. postal mail direct from your PC, to anywhere in the world. Great for convenience, not so good for price. |
| Postful Ditto NetGram, but quite a bit faster, at least for this writer in Topeka, Kansas, USA. |
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NetPost Mailing Online Ditto the above, via USPS itself, within the USA only. Very good on price, but there are significant mailing list minimums. |
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