On-line shopping

DIY

Ezee-Fix is a domestic appliance spares distributor with a fantastic range of spare parts (including our exclusive vacuum cleaner paper dust bags, (belts and filters) and a commitment to give a personal service which is the cornerstone of our business
ProEco great range of efficiency products that will help reduce your energy and water consumption

Computer consumables

IJT direct printer refills (free delivery on orders over £14.95) is much cheaper than buying the printer manufacturers refills.

Everyday treats (if this isn't a contradiction in terms!)

CD Wow! sells most CDs at £8.99 with no delivery charge, a saving of a fiver or so on high-street prices.
DVD Price Check is a mighty fine price-comparison website that searches dozens of UK and overseas websites to find you a better deal on DVDs.

Big purchases and electrical goods

You'll find a huge selection of household, electrical, computer equipment and other goods listed on these popular shopbots (price-comparison websites): Kelkoo, Amazon, DealTime and Pricerunner.

Travel and leisure

For cheaper holidays, flights, hotels and hire cars, check out ebookers, Expedia, Lastminute and Travelocity.

Supermarket savings

Fixture Ferrets lists all the bargains at seven leading supermarket chains. You can view offers by store, product type and promotional category, plus there's a handy search facility. Fantastic for buying in bulk!
Another site for serious supermarket savings is TrollyDolly, which list prices for almost every grocery item under the sun.
Naughtycodes.com {Coupon codes}organizes the available codes alphabetically by store name

Telephone services

www.saynoto0870.com This site lists normal numbers for Companies that have 0845 & 0870 numbers. Most 0845 & 870 numbers cost MORE to call that a National Call to their normal number. This site lists the normal number for the companies

Then sign up with www.18866.com (2p for any length UK and very cheap international calls) and really make use of those geographical numbers!

Euphony Communications Limited

Here is a very comprehensive telephone tariff comparison at http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/

IDT pre-pay International Phone Card

Free (US) long distance PhoneFree.com

If you want to get the very lowest international rates take a look at http://www.just-dial.com/ and http://www.telediscount.co.uk/ - the
second one gives calls to the USA and others at your local rate using an 0845 number.

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Books

Bookbrain compares prices of – you guessed it – books from around thirteen different booksellers, including big names such as Amazon. One online bookseller that is consistently competitive is Swotbooks. For Motley Fool books and merchandise, pay a visit to our Fool Shop!

Cheap IT books (often those on just superseded products)

Buying second hand booksTry http://www.abebooks.com/ This is a book database where booksellers from anywhere submit their titles and prices to the database manager. They are then seen by everyone who does a search. Online 2nd hand UK bookstore www.bibliofind.com another excellent site for finding second-hand books, http://www.addall.com/used You might also like: http://books.interdart.co.uk/books/links.html and another site: http://www.justbooks.co.uk/index.asp

Books On-Line

StreetsOnline Exchange Books: Rare, Out of Print, Signed, First Editions, New, Old Music: CDs, Vinyl Records, Memorabilia, T-shirts, Tickets, New Bands, Specialist Films: DVDs, Videos, Hardware, Photographs, Posters, Hardware: Consoles, Out of Stock Games, Hardware, Add-ons, Software

OTHER

http://www.trylocally.com/ A recent start up trying to get into the local for sale ads business

http://www.ufindus.com/ UK services search also try http://www.118118.com/ and the other general shopping sites further down the list

Find out what your neighbours paid for their house (last 3 years only) Nethouseprices is a free public service and always will be. We provide access to UK house prices in England, Scotland and Wales, as recorded by the Land Registry (since April 2000) and the Registers of Scotland (since May 2000).

One of the things that you'll notice about Ikea's products is that they all have unique, Scandinavian-sounding names: ALFREDE BLOMMA table-runners, FJARRAN candlesticks, SMULAN children's tables, and so on. Where do these product names come from? Well, Margaret Marks (with the help of an article in German in Stern), has found the answer:
http://www.margaret-marks.com/Transblawg/archives/000314.html

http://www.adtrader.co.uk/ classified adverts by local area shows how far away from you each advertiser is and gives optional Email notification if what you are looking for turns up

www.memorisethis.com Supposed to match gifts to the type of person - and emails you of anniversarys and birthdays www.surpriseyourwoman.com

Check out Improveline's new, free directory of the building trades!

Domestic and General 08705-490000 "Flying Toolbox" - Sony TV exteneded warranty - this site list approved repairers for other stuff

P2U 24 hour pharmacist's advice and 24 hour delivery (if ordered before 11am) to your door including prescriptions or 0800-072-2121

AutpPA parking barriers

BT Cellnet now O2

The Direct Marketing Association - preference registrations

Home Improvement Professionals At Improveline.com - Europe's No1 Site Welcome To Improveline

BIZLAND UK MOBILE PHONE INDUSTRY COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORY

Building and other major housework "link-up" service

DeBarCode is cool, and works because a bar code is usually just a representation the Universal Product Code If I ever want to find a company's web site, I just type in the UPC here and I find out if they do or don't have a web presence.

Beeb dot com

Books, CDs and tapes at USA prices + free fast delivery

Surprise your woman

Laptops from Morgan Computers - some big clear out deals - see also http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/system/index.html http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/ http://www.nottingham-computer-exchange.co.uk/

Barclaycard Indigo Square - on-line shopping - comparisons possible between shops featured

buy.com ????? Software ?and other stuff?

www.streetsonline.co.uk audio, video and games only

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