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Online Coupon Codes and Deals

Overstock.com
This is the reigning champ in bargain sites, thanks to the breadth of its merchandise and the great prices. Overstock specializes in hawking excess merchandise from other retailers, which means their inventory is diverse and constantly changing. It’s worth stopping here if you’re unsure what you’re buying (when you’re looking for a gift, say) or you’re not committed to a particular model.

SmartBargains
This is another general discount site, similar to Overstock.com, where you’ll find deals on everything from clothing and MP3 players to diamond earrings. SmartBargains doesn’t seem to have quite the quantity or breadth of deals that Overstock has, but it’s no slouch. I purchased Waterford crystal candle holders here at about half their usual retail price. High-end wool coats, including Donna Karan and Kenneth Cole labels, were anywhere from 35% to 65% off.

Wow-Coupons
Wow-Coupons focuses on providing both online coupons and the printable variety to use in person at general retailers. The site also offers food and restaurant coupons, though when we checked, the selection was limited to a handful of chains (Baskin Robbins and Hardee’s, for example).

CurrentCodes.com 
CurrentCodes.com seems to do a better job than many of its competitors in maintaining a focus on coupons rather than on sales and other discounts. Its home page states that it exclusively focuses on coupons, although in the event a coupon code isn’t available for a merchant, the site does list other sale and discount information. CurrentCodes.com didn’t list any coupons for Best Buy, for example, but it did tell me the retailer was holding a number of sales, including one on all portable DVD players and recorders. This approach is fine if you’re using the site as a starting point, but if you’ve come here to do a last-minute check for a promotional code before checking out at a retailer, you’ll likely already know of any such sales. Still, the list of coupons is usually long.

FatWallet
FatWallet lists deals and coupons from all over the Web and makes them easy to find by category, by retailer, by popularity or by expiration date for the deal. One of FatWallet’s best features: an active user forum that seems to have taken over some of the functions the rest of the site used to cover well, particularly in coupons. When I last looked, readers were posting coupons for 20% off at online jewelry retailer Ice.com, $20 off purchases of $100 at Staples, and $10 off purchases of $50 at Steve Madden.com, among others.

You also have the option of earning cash back from hundreds of retailers such as REI, Barnes & Noble and Eddie Bauer, though you have to sign in and shop through the links on the FatWallet “Stores” page. FatWallet’s price-comparison tool is actually the well-respected shopping bot PriceGrabber.

Shopzilla (formerly Bizrate)
Shopzilla, formerly known as Bizrate, has been a longtime leader in including user ratings and feedback in search results. It sees its mission as twofold: to surface great deals while providing consumers with information on the merchants offering those deals. Like the other bots, you’re not buying things from Shopzilla, you’re just using it as a way to surface sites that have what you want.

Shopping.com (formerly DealTime)
Shopping.com combines the bot power of DealTime with the useful consumer reviews of a site like Epinions.com. You can see reviews of the products and the retailers. It has extensive product specifications; in my camera research, it gave me details such as weight, focal length, compression modes and plenty more.

PriceGrabber.com
PriceGrabber reliably surfaces great deals and great product information, so you can get a real sense for what you’re buying. In addition to user reviews, it includes “expert” reviews written by product reviewers for various publications

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