Daniel Boone Regional Library

Shop & Save

• “How to cut your food budget in half"
  (MSN Money, November 2012)
  
• “How to spend less for gasoline”
  (Consumer Reports, June 2011)
  
• “Saving well, spending less”
  (Updated daily)
  

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Coupons & Rebates

• The Bargainist
  “Find the best deals” with updates several times a day. One of PC Mag's top 10 coupon sites.
• Thecouponclippers.com
  Self-advertised as the “largest online grocery clipping service”, coupons may be ordered for a small handling fee.
• DailyeDeals.com
  Sign up for discount promotions and coupons to be e-mailed each week.
• Dealcatcher.com
  Special online deals, comparison prices, rebates and printable coupons from online vendors such as buy.com, bluefly.com and from major U.S. retailers like BestBuy and Sears.
• E coupons
  Search by category or by store for all types of coupons and promotional deals.
• Groupon
  Sends daily emails to subscribers with deals from local businesses. Discounts offered typically range from 50%-90%.

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Comparison Shopping

• BestBookBuys
  “Search dozens of bookstores to find the lowest price.”
• DealTime.com
  A service of shopping.com owned by eBay, includes consumer reviews and buying guides from eBay.
• MyGroceryDeals.com
  Sign up for free e-mail alerts on items for sale in your local grocery stores.
• MySimon.com
  Has links to short reviews from Consumer Reports
• Shopping.com
  This eBay company offers one-stop online shopping with the “world’s largest product catalog.” Many products have hundreds of customer reviews.
• Yahoo
  Shop by brand, store or category. Find the latest coupons or promotional codes for a large number of products and featured merchants.

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Product Reviews

• Consumer Reports
  Consumer Reports features unbiased ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel.
• Consumer World
  
• The Consumerist
  Independent blog “biased toward the consumer” about a wide variety of consumer issues, including consumer rights, scams, sales and deals. Complain about products or service: “We live and die by our reader tips.”
• Epinions.com
  A service of Shopping.com, a major comparison shopping online service, featuring customer product reviews, buying and how-to guides.

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Social Shopping Sites and Classifieds

• Craigslist
  Third on Time magazine’s “Sites We Can’t Live Without.” Craigslist remains the largest online classified marketplace in spite of emerging competition and scam alerts.
• Etsy
  The “place to buy and sell all things handmade.”
• freecycle.org
  A grassroots movement of people who are giving (and getting) items for free.

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