Amazon has another great holiday smartphone deal for you: The online retailer is dropping the price of Nokia’s N900 to $530 minus another $50 (after mail-in rebate) for a $480 take home price. The N900’s US retail price is $649 without the carrier subsidies making this pretty little smartphone quite the splurge. This unlocked cell phone has not been
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Holiday Shopping Tips: Online Help for Holiday Shopping
Shoppers face a dizzying array of offers of help in the form of new Web sites, services and mobile phone applications as they set out for their holiday shopping this year. To make the most of new services, experts advise employing them often and early, even before the season kicks off with Black Friday next week.
Here are four ways to track down holiday bargains and a look at whether each could work for you:
How to Get Books, CDs, DVDs and Games for Free
Books, CDs, DVDs and video games are already some of the cheapest forms of entertainment around, but we’ve found three services that render them even more affordable – specifically, by making them yours at no cost whatsoever.
OK, there is a catch, but it’s a very small one: You’ll incur shipping fees, but this never amounts to more than a few dollars per item. And most of the services operate on a trading model, which means you’ll need to give up a book, CD, DVD or video game you own in order to get something don’t already have. Likewise, acquiring entertainment this way doesn’t deliver the instant gratification you’ll get from online shopping or visiting a brick-and-mortar store, especially because you can’t be sure that the item you’re looking for will be available, and it can take as long as 10 days to receive an item you’ve ordered. But let’s be honest: You seriously can’t beat the prices.
CanvasPop Turns Your iPhone and Facebook Images Into Art
That picture you snapped with your iPhone— the one in receipt of constant admiration—now it can be appreciated on a larger scale… much larger. New canvas-printing company CanvasPop allows customers to upload any photo, including ones from Facebook, Flickr, and even their iPhone, onto its website to then be transferred and printed onto their chosen canvas. The site holds a lot of different options for displaying an image—different filters, sizes and effects—and gives users a chance to have their art displayed publically in New York’s Times Square.
Best Online Travel Deals 2009 and 2010: How to Save Money By Booking Online
Travel expenses add up. Between airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, and three square meals out on the town a day, it’s tempting to give it up entirely when money gets tight.
But you don’t have to scratch that surf trip to Maui in favor of the Jersey shore just yet. With the near omniscience of the Web a mouse click away, finding cheap deals and ways to slash costs on your next vacation (without packing three dozen bologna sandwiches into a cooler as your sole source of sustenance) has never been easier.
Int’l Trade Comm. Stops Import of Fake Cigarettes
The International Trade Commission has ordered U.S. customs officials to bar imports of counterfeit cigarettes bearing the trademarks of Philip Morris USA, the nation’s No. 1 tobacco company said Thursday.
Philip Morris, owned by Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group Inc., said in a statement that the order will help stop Internet-based vendors from illegally importing cigarettes made abroad without trademark owners’ permission and selling them in the United States. The company estimates more than 800 million cigarettes were sold to U.S. consumers by Internet sellers in 2008.
Bargains Can Be Found on Home Auction Web Sites
Sounds simple, but the difference between landing a bargain and overpaying for a property isn’t quite that cut and dry. Often it comes down to how well a buyer vets a property before the auction and how they manage their bidding in the final hours of the sale. And some auction Web sites have features that make this easier to do.
Some sites give users a wealth of property details, easy access to sellers and tools for managing the bidding process. Others less so, which places more of a burden on users to do their homework or risk getting a raw deal.
Top Online Clothing Stores
You don’t have drive to a Neiman Marcus to find great clothes. By using the Internet, you can save yourself time and money, while creating a unique fashion style. There are tons of web sites offering all kinds of fashions, from geeky t-shirts to designer jeans.
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10 Golden Tips For Secure Online Shopping
The first two tips are below:
1. Surf anonymous
A lot of websites use cookies that track the movements of users on the internet and use the data to bring other party’s interesting stuff about what most people do across the internet. To avoid this you can switch off the possibility to accept all cookies by going to the Preferences of your web-browser.
2. Shop with certified company’s
Everybody can start an online shop these days at whatever name they prefer. Of you dont know the brand of the shop or the goods, ask for a catalogue or brochure of the products and services the shop delivers.
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