Shopping blogs

Corporate secrets . 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) . Hey it's Free . 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)

“ID Theft” Problems? Consumer Credit Reporting Companies Security Freeze (overview): Equifax, Experian, Innovis, & TransUnion;

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

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.

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 . Used car tips (why new is a ripoff) . 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
• 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?

• Apple Genius Bars
• Evil customers (forum)
• Feel, felt, found marketing trick

• Product launch via email
• How retailers set prices