Comments on: The Four Web Sites That Directly Save Me The Most Money … And Some Thoughts On Other Online Shopping Sites http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Heather http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-930045 Heather Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:30:00 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-930045 I love your site, but cannot for the life of me figure out why you promote paperback swap. I listed 10 books and immediatly had the four most expensive books “claimed immediatly”. I suspect that silly newbies like me list books that can be sold on Amazon and veterans snap them up to resell.

Paperback swap charges you a 50 cent fee for putting money onto your account through Paypall so that you can mail packages without leaving your home and then charges you another fee for printing the postage and getting a confirmation.

Suddenly with the fees and the mailing expenses I’m out almost ten dollars and can then request one book.

It seems to me that buying books for a penny on Amazon and then payng the shipping fee is much more economical. You click a button and for the same price get a book without the financial obligation to spend money sending out books. If you want you can sell your books on Amazon without paying fees like you do to PS.

Paperback Swap is genius as a business model. They make money with their fees, their UPS hook up and then with Amazon the listing for each book.

Kudos to PS, but this is in no way a money saving proposition.

Trent, for the first time I’m really sorry I took your advice.

]]> By: Jen http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-444149 Jen Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:39:03 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-444149 I like GoNicoFish.com for deals, coupon and coupon codes, too. It isn’t cluttered with a lot of irrelevant gooble-e-gook. And, the discount links actually work.

I also use PriceGrabber and Shopping.com for price comparisons.

]]> By: hank http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-403864 hank Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:06:08 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-403864 http://www.dealalive.com is a very good website that automatically grabs the hot deals from slickdeals,fatwallet and dealsea. It also provide powerful search and rss. Looking for hot deals, look no further:)

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-386176 Elizabeth Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:12:41 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-386176 Don’t forget Go Nico Fish! (gonicofish.com). It’s a site that has everything, from coupons to comparison shopping — all neatly organized and kept up to date.

]]> By: Nick http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-39944 Nick Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:50:29 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-39944 Check out:

http://www.searchmydeal.com/

This tool is indispensable if you frequently use slickdeals or fatwallet.

]]> By: Dottie http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-20060 Dottie Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:27:31 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-20060 http://www.abusaki.com is also a very good one. I have always loved shopping online and with coupon codes or free shiiping offers so I created this website to share with my friends and family, now it has so many merchants and we update it daily. Hope it helps you to save money when shopping like it helps me.

]]> By: R http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-18208 R Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:11:30 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-18208 If you buy alot of new books, CDs, DVDs or games, check out deepdiscount.com – they don’t have everything, but they have quite a bit. Very good prices, frequent sales and always free shipping on everything.

]]> By: KMull http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17610 KMull Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:34:24 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17610 I’ve got to give some props to Paperbackswap.com. I went to college a year or two behind the guy who created the site. He did a presentation in one of my entrepreneur classes when the site was in its infancy and doubling every week.

]]> By: Viriatha http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17564 Viriatha Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:18:30 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17564 Amazing, thanks! I’ll be sure to tell everyone I know about the Book Swap.

]]> By: Madelaine Gogol http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17550 Madelaine Gogol Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:20:41 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17550 http://www.lala.com is good for trading your CDs similar to the paperbacks swap. 1.75 per cd and some money goes to the artist, so there’s less ethical qualms when compared with downloading illegally.

]]> By: James http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17540 James Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:12:20 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17540 http://www.farecast.com/ is another good airfare tracking site. It aggregates data on a bunch of airfares for the user’s flight and predicts based on trends whether the prices will go up or down.

]]> By: Boz http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17526 Boz Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:39:16 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17526 You missed out on the all-time best money-saving website: Slickdeals.net. Better than Fatwallet. Better than Ben’s Bargains. Better than Techbargains. Freeafterrebate.info comes close, but Slickdeals always posts the best deals on the net.

]]> By: Sean http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17513 Sean Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:25:23 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17513 currentcodes.com will often save you a few bucks before you go shopping online.

]]> By: Tyler http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17510 Tyler Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:17:25 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17510 I also like Jellyfish.com and e-bates.com both cash back sites. They are usually only a small % but if your buying something anyways why not? Slickdeals.net is great for cheap stuff and freebies. I also found airfarewatchdog.com the other day. I haven’t used it much but the prices I found were pretty competitive.

]]> By: mitchell http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17505 mitchell Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:48:39 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/11/the-four-web-sites-that-directly-save-me-the-most-money-and-some-thoughts-on-other-online-shopping-sites/#comment-17505 Here are two pages I use:
http://www.swaptree.com – its in closed Beta right now, but it essentially allows you to trade your books/CDs/DVDs/video games for similar stuff of approximate value.
http://dealspl.us – community deal/coupon/etc. webpage, where the community decides what stuff is worthwhile. also, the site gives away free stuff on a daily basis (i’ve won a ipod shuffle, movie tickets, and amazon gift certificates from them).

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