Shopping blogs

Cool Tools . Consumerist . Gizmodo (gadgets) . Meta-Efficient (guide to efficiently designed items) . Mighty Goods . MoCo Loco (Modern Contemporary design) . Trend Central . Wikinomics

Bargains & Sales:

Black Friday ads . Clark Howard . Coupon Codes . Deal Database . Deal Me In . Deal News . Deal Sites (live deals) . Fat Wallet (rebate issues) . Hot-Deals (computer related) . Over Stock . Red Flag Deals . Retail Me Not: coupon codes . Shopping . When to buy 2011 . Woot: daily sale of 1 item

Living Efficiently & Inexpensively:

Apartment Therapy . Better Times Info . Buy/Rent calculator . Cheap but bombproof . Cheapskate Monthly . The Compact: forum with lots of tips (blog) . Energy audits . Freeconomy (sharing skills, tools, and spaces; worldwide) . Gas saving tips . Hello Dollar . Lifehacker . Living frugally without hardship . Simple Living . Tightwad . MeFi: Moneysaving budget . You pay for WHAT? | Reduce your bills just by asking . Frugal living tip file . Verdant

Living in a car, van, or off the grid: Dwelling Portably . Spartan Student . Survival Guide to Homelessness . Van Dwellers

Fuel, Biodiesel, & Ethanol: Elsbett . Ethanol balance . FuelEconomy.gov . GreaseCar

Auctions~ & Used

Blujay . Dell Auctions (desktops and laptops) . ebay (Firefox toolbar, popular items, search mispelled descriptions, feedback tools, selling tips) . Gun Broker: guns, knives, tools . Half . On Sale . Police Property Room . Trodo (barter) . Auction Watch | Auction Secrets . Crime-online . Fraud Aid . Freecycle . Power Sellers Unite . Scam Patrol | Auction helpers/snipers: Auction Mapper . Auction Sniper . Auction Stealer . eSnipe . Phantom Bidder . Snipe Swipe

Shipping: Fed Ex . uShip (auction-like shipping of furniture, cars, large items) . UPS . USPS (Track & Confirm, Mailbox Map, postnet codes, fonts, unsolicited merchandise) | Postal news

Consumer & Comparison Guides

Bottom Dollar . Buy Buddy . Buyers Index . Cell phone plan comparisons . Charity Navigator . Clark Howard . Compare Net . Consumerist (Circuit City worker confessions) . Consumer Search . Froogle (price comparisons) . My Simon . Price Scan . Robo Shopper . R U Sure . 12 Ripoffs in America . Yelp customer experiences and reviews

Consumer Guide . Consumer Reports . Consumer World . Household Products contents & safety . How Much is Inside . Reseller Ratings . Ripoff Report . Recycling Guide . Which? (UK)

Banking & Credit Cards: Center for Responsible Lending: nonprofit working to reduce unfair lending . Bank Rate (e.g. checking and savings comparison) . Finance tips from FatWallet . Credit Boards: forum on credit . Emigrant Direct (reviews: Saving Advice) . Find a Better Bank . Good Money: socially responsible banking and financing . 9 banking tips . ING Direct . HSBC Direct . Liberty Reserve . Move Your Money (find a local well-rated bank) . PNC: free checking . How hackable are RFID and credit cards? You will never know.

Annual Credit Report (free in US, FTC's guide to credit rights, Call don't click?, beware of web sites that hint about being free but then try to charge you money) . How credit scores are calculated: hint: it's a secret

Banks make commissions on your shopping history . What does your credit card company know about you? . Your credit card is a tattletale

Opt Out (U.S): Prescreened credit offers . DMA members' mailing lists . DMA members' phone lists . Federal Do Not Call list

Complaints: Digital Consumer (fair-use rights) . Complaint Station . Consumer Affairs . Credit boards (forum, see especially “debt verification” and “1 2 Punch” for inaccurate items) . Customers Suck . FTC Complaint Assistant . Gripe Log . HowTo Complain . Those coupons on your web receipt are scammy Post Transaction Coupons (investigation) . Red Tape Chronicles . Rip off report (AKA Bad Business Bureau) . Telephone Do Not Call lists by State or Federal also: 800notes (to reverse look up annoying telemarketing numbers)

Recalls: Child product recalls (US) . Dell Batteries . FDA recalls

Charities: Charity Navigator . Charity Watch (top rated) . Guide Star (990 forms, 990 primer) . Ministry Watch

Taxes (US): Tax refund loans

Mugs, T-shirts, & Swag

Cafe Press (forums) . Glarkware

Luxury Items:

Art . Ashford . Diamonds: history of . J Peterman . Sharper Image . Red Envelope

Food & Drinks

Restaurant Menu Tricks

Beer

Candy: Warehouse . Old Time Candy . Hometown Favorites . Licorice

Cooperative Grocer . Culinary parts

Chocolate: Chococo (UK) . Michel Cluizel . Vosges

Coffee: Sweet Marias . Kenyan Highland Cooperatives beans (fair trade)

Cars

Buying: Car Buying Tips . Cars Direct . Fuel Economy (Vehicle MPG) . Kelly Blue Book . Edmunds (Confessions of a salesman, Advice, cost to own calculator) . Vehix (new & used)

Repairing: Car-Part . Center for Auto Safety (CAS) recalls and common problems . Car Maintenance Bibles . Car problems . Mercedes Problems

Info: . Failing Enterprise rent-a-car: see the resources in the bottom-left of the page . Euro NCAP . Fleet-Central (Life cost calculator) . Gasoline FAQ . Hybrid mileage chart . Highway Safety ratings . Radar Test (radar detectors) . Paul Tan (blog rants) . Tires “use by” date . Truth About Cars | Books: Car Buyer's and Leaser's Negotiating Bible . What Car Dealers Don't Want You to Know

Traffic: Traffic simulator . Traffic waves

Misc. Items

CostCo . E-Florist . Off the Runway . Zillow (real estate prices)

Wholesale, B2B, Large quantity purchases: Alibaba . Tradekey . Private Label Buyer: an industry magazine

Unclaimed Money & Property: National Association of Unclaimed Property Administratos . Missing Money . National Unclaimed Property Database | States: . AR . CA . CT . DE . GA . HA . IA . IN . IL . MS . NE . NM . NY . OH . OR . PE . RI . WY | Unclaimed Baggage

• American Express Private payments
• Bank Rates - credit card rates
• Credit card misconceptions
• Credit Card's secret history
• Counterfeit cashier's check & money transfer scams
• ID theft
• MBNA - temporary CC numbers
• Notes from an Ex-manager?
• Opt-Out Prescreen - opt out of credit and insurance offers?
• Signing credit cards - goofy or good idea?

Shopping Experiences

Evil customers (forum)