Find deep discounts: If you're a serious big-deal hunter, plan a trip to Jungle­Crazy. This clever Web site rounds up deeply discounted Amazon items (everything is reduced in price by at least 70 percent). The goods here aren't all gems, but you'll occasionally find a diamond in the rough. You can dig for items by using the search box or by clicking through on the tag links, or plumb the depths of cheapness in the one-cent bin.

Get books for less: Though Amazon's low prices and fast shipping are well documented, you can sometimes save even more money by buying elsewhere. Book Burro, a Firefox extension, integrates with Amazon and searches your local library and other online bookstores to pinpoint the cheapest price--which, if it finds the book at your library, is most likely zilch.

Comparison-shop from your phone: When you're out shopping, you may be tempted to grab the first item you see on the shelf just because it's there. If you have a touch more patience, however, the Amazon Mobile App for BlackBerry or the Amazon Mobile App for iPhone can be the perfect shopping companion. Snap a photograph of the item you want to buy, and Amazon Mobile will automatically recognize the product and show you how much it costs on Amazon (and let you buy it).

Find the best products: Buying a product on Amazon is easy when you already know exactly what you want, but it can be trickier when you have only a more general idea. That's where Savvy­Graph comes in. Run a search of your keywords (for example, "50? HDTV") at this handy site, and it will return a chart that graphs products based on their Amazon rating and their number of reviews received (presumably the more reviews a product has, the more accurate the rating will be). For a quick glance at the cream of the crop, look for items located in the top right of the graph (highest rated and most reviewed).

Most of us shop at Amazon at least once in awhile. Many of us shop there often--and even sell stuff there. These tips, tricks, and add-ons can make your Amazon experience faster, less expensive, more efficient, and more fun.

Make your wishes come true: We can't guarantee that you'll get everything you want, but if you're notorious as the "guy who has everything," do yourself a favor and start an Amazon wish list. It's quite possibly the easiest way to keep track of stuff you want; and the next time your birthday comes around, you'll know exactly where to direct any kindly soul who wants to buy you a gift. Tell your would-be benefactor to click the Gifts & Wish Lists link at the top of Amazon, and then search for your wish list by your name or email address.

Organize your gift-giving: If you want to organize your gift-giving, Amazon's Gift Central has you covered. This site offers gift ideas for all occasions, organized by price, relationship, age, and even personality. Desperate to find something original? Gift Central even has a page of suggestions For the One Who Has Everything.

Zoomii virtual bookshelf; click for full-size image. Browse Amazon's virtual bookshelf: Amazon made its name as an online bookstore, but if the site's online storefront makes you miss your bookstore's shelves, head to Zoomii. It displays thousands of Amazon books and bestsellers in an interactive virtual bookshelf that's tightly integrated with Amazon; when you're ready to check out, all of the items you've chosen are in your cart and ready to buy at Amazon.

Buy Later extension for Amazon; click for full-size image. Buy an item when it's available (or when you can afford it): Ever come across an item that you're dying to buy--but it's not in stock, or you just don't have the funds to cover it? The Buy Later Firefox extension adds a Buy This Later button to Amazon pages and alerts you when the item becomes available or its price falls.

When changes occur, especially amazing ones, they should be embraced by the people who can take advantage of them. Anyone who needs to buy something can use online shopping. It is safe and because people can run a business for cheaper now, they can sell items at a lower cost. This means that everyone is winning when they use the internet to conduct retail.

But a person needs to be careful. There are shops online that are not safe and not a good idea to visit. But how can one know what to trust and what to avoid? What safeguards can be used as a defense against a shop that is not the best? Well, this is where practice and care and attention come into play. A person must pay attention to all that they can.

In order to know where the best shops are a person needs to build up reliable sources for research. This will make purchasing items safer, and a safe transaction is a great experience. All a person really has to do is be careful and patient and read all the details. Most of the time it is safe to shop anywhere, but one should act wisely.

This is why the smart consumers who want to save time and money shop from home by using the internet. But they are also careful and choosy because being selective is the only way to be sure that one is making a good deal. People thus put care into finding the best online shops before enjoying the modern marvel that is this technology.

Shopperpress is a full featured storefront shopping cart solution for WordPress that is packed with amazing features that turn a standard WordPress blog into a feature rich shopping cart website in just a few easy steps. The ease of installation of Shopperpress will have your online store up in running in 5 minutes or less. You have the ability to use the built-in Amazon product importer, CSV product import, and datafeed imports as well. It's a snap to quickly and easily import thousands of targeted products and merchandise to your blog without headaches or frustration working with complicated software. Your products will practically sell themselves as Shopperpress includes lots of extra product data like product photos, product descriptions, and customer reviews.

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