Local

• Milk Pail Market, San Antonio Shopping Center, Mountain View
• Webb Ranch Farm, Alpine Road, Menlo Park
• Palo Alto Town and Country Village Shopping Center home
• Walgreens Drug Stores

General

• San Jose Mercury News - Web site helps you avoid phone trees
• Consumer Reports
• Consumer Checkbook
• Knowledge Adventure Games: good reviews of French for the Real World ($30)
• Avatars Consumers Guide To Moving & Storage
• Better Business Bureau Online
• BizRate
• 20-20 Consumer
• Voice Mail Code Sequences to get to a Human at many corporations collected and maintained by Paul English
• Consumerist: Shoppers Bite Back

Comparison Shopper

• ShoppingList.com
• SalesCircular.com
• Deal Time
• MS E-Shop
• MySimon
• Quicken
• ShopOn
• R U Sure
• Sherlock
• Deal Catcher
• **BizRate.com** Compare Prices, Store Ratings & Product Reviews
  BizRate.com -- Comparison Shopping: Special Offers
• Shopping.com - Find, Compare, and Buy Anything in Seconds

Gift Finders

• PersonalShopper.com
• FindGift
• SheFinds
• Your-Shopper
• RedEnvelope

Bargain Sites

• Find Savings Description: "Site dedicated to locating current online sales and deals for consumers. Also many resources on savings money and time."
• AmazingBargains
• AlmostShopLifting
• slickdeals
• gotapex: Deals on electronics
• FlamingoWorld
• DealCatcher
• FatWallet
• A2ZDeals
• GoodBazaar.com
• Shopping Bookmarks

Bulk Buyers

• Accompany
• Mercata

Mail Order

• Lands' End, Inc.
• The Company Store
• REI Outlet
• Zelco: Cute accessories (computer, ...): interesting item (forgotten?) in ad 1Q98 in Tech Review, but not on web site.
• Free Catalogs from CatalogLink

Stores: various

• Walgreens | Store Online |
• Costco Online

Autos

• Consumer Reports
  Sample on SUV?
• Green Guide to Cars and Trucks
• FuelEconomy.gov
• IntelliChoice (Info on Autos)
• Edmund's
• Kelley Blue Book
• Auto-By-Tel
• CarPoint (Microsoft): formerly named CarSource
  Search to see photos and lists of features, specifications,, and manufacturers as well as dealer prices.
  Connections to IntelligChoice and Auto-By-Tel (above).
• Auto Connect
• Tasha Automotive Group
• AutoSite
• Auto Town
• AutoWeb Interactive
• eAuto
• DealerNet
• iMotors.com
• cars.com - new and used car pricing, reviews and buying information
• AutoVantage - New Car Referral Search
• Auto Safety:
  • Shopping for Safer Cars from Insurance Institute for Safer Cars
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Agency, US Dept of Transportation
• Dateline Luxury Car Crash Report
• Buying a Safer Car: New Car Assessment Program (NCAP)
• Bob Is The Oil Guy
• Manufacturers
  • Daimler-Chrysler
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Ford
    Ford - Used
  • Honda
  • Subaru Of America
  • Toyota
  • Volvo Cars
    THE 1998 VOLVO S70: Comparison
• Accessories
  • Auto headlight info
  • Lenteck: Deer Repeller: attaches to grille of vehicle an emits high pitched sound. Approx $30 (11/2000)
  • SecureStart Portable Jump Starter, under $100. Carried in major chains (Target, WalMart, ...)
  • Creekside: Products for iving: spring-loaded cargo baskets for cars and vans
• Car Talk: A Great New Way to Set Your Car's Side-View Mirrors by Tom and Ray Magliozzi (Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers) / Car Talk
  Associated column: Car Talk: Advice on setting Mirrors for max visibility

Bicycle

Cell Phone

• Merchants who provide well-reviewed multi-vendor plan comparison capabilities
  • GetConnected.com reviewed as best organized of these
  • LetsTalk.com : review: funnels you to one plan, but you can get to comparison pages
  • InPhonic.com
• Tracfone : prepaid cellular availlable via various retailers

Electronics

• VideoHelp.com : DVD features and comopatibility
• Camcorders - Digital & VHS Camcorder Reviews, Comparisons, & Ratings
• How to contact Seiko Instruments USA, Inc.
• Samsung Telecommunications America
• MicroSun - new type of light bulb, supposedly a 68W halide bulb provides as much light as a 300W halogen. Seems to require custom light fixture (electronics in base, not just a quick substitute)

Digital Cameras

• DPreview.com (DP = Digital Photography)
• DCResource.com (DC = Digital Camera)
• Imagining-Resource advice on digital cameras
• Steves-Digicams.com - Warning: this site has a reputation for only saying good things about the products being reviewed.

Office

• Office.com
• Herman Miller Store award winning chairs
• Iprint.com

Exercise

• Concept II (Rowing Machine)
• Ball Pump for Swiss Balls

• Skate Warehouse: skateboards, decks, skateboard shoes and clothing from birdhouse, blind, circa, dc shoes, dvs, element, emerica, etnies, osiris, shortys, volcom and more.
• Inline Warehouse: Aggressive Skates, Hockey Skates, Fitness Skates, wheels, bearings and apparel from Salomon, K2, Rollerblade, Mission, Tour, CCM, Razors, Roces, USD, Heelys, Soap, Labeda, Red Star, Senate, Mindgame, Eulogy.
• Tackle Warehouse - bass pro shop for fishing rods, reels, swimbaits and lures.
• Tennis Warehouse - tennis racquets, tennis shoes, tennis apparel, string, grip, tennis balls from Wilson, Prince, Head, Nike, Adidas, Reebok.

Misc

• Pilot Pen Corporation of America
• SEALED AIR
• Swiss Tech Tools: compact multi-tools, including Utili-Key (key-size knife and screwdriver)

Used Books

• Alibris - Used, New and Hard-to-find Books, Music and Movies
• Charbo's Antiquariaat (in the Netherlands)
• AbeBooks

Furniture

• The Cottage Table Company (SF)
• Home Portfolio
• Cuddledown
• Cedar Store
• All about Memory Foam Mattress Topper
• Hearth Kitchen Company | Welcome to The World of Brick Oven Cooking
• Antique Chinese Furnishings | shensgallery.com... Premier antique Chinese furniture and decoratives.
• Appliance411 - Appliance Purchasing, Appliance Service and Appliance Repair Parts Information Center for Major Home Appliances

Telecommunications

• TRAC: Telecommunications Research & Action Center
• Cellular and PCS
  • Point.COM (cellular plans)
  • Talking on Air (PCS plans)
• Long distance
  • A Bell Tolls: Long Distance Telephone and Telecommunications Clearinghouse
  • Consumer-Action.ORG
  • TeleWorth: Long Distance Calling Plan Comparisons
  • Salestar: The Information Source for the Telecommunications Industry
• Local toll calling
  • Salestar: The Information Source for the Telecommunications Industry
• Free World Dialup - by pulver.com

Outdoor

• MountainZone.Com, featuring The Northface

Travel

• United Skymall
• Rand McNally - The Travel Store

Kitchen/Cooking

• Cooking.com : Cookware, accessories, recipes, ...
• Tavolo: Specialty Foods, Gourmet Kitchenware, Recipes and Shopping
• America's Test Kitchen
• Cooks Corner the Nations Largest Kitchen Supply Store
• KitchenShop
• CooksWorld
• eKitchenGadgets
• BakersCatalog (King Arthur Flour)
• ChefsCatalog
• LaCuisine (US)
• SurLaTable
• Heritage Turkeys
  • Santa Cruz unit of Slow Food
• Turkey hotlines
  • EatTurkey from The National Turkey Federation
  • TurkeyHelp from Cook's Illustrated magazine
  • StarChefs
  • McCormick
  • SouthernFood
• Other
  • PotatoHelp

Online Music

• iTunes (Apple)
• BuyMusic (Buy.com)
• MusicNow (FullAudio)
• MusicMatch
• Dell's Jukebox from MusicMatch
• MusicNet
• Rhapsody (listen.com) (RealNetworks)
• Napster 2.0 (Roxio)
• Streamwaves