Online shopping resources
This list used to be a bit longer. Then Shopping.com bought Dealtime.com to create a mammoth shopping portal that combines Epinion consumer reviews with reviews of the vendors themselves. Shopping.com offers a great feature that factors the shipping cost into the overall price of the item to give you an absolute lowest price. Remember, a low price may rise dramatically after an inflated shipping fee has been tacked on.

A word on vendors; consider your choice carefully, read the reviews and research the vendor. An extra twenty dollars may save you serious consumer headaches later. If you enjoy bargaining, try. Let them know that you have found a better price elsewhere but chose them and that you should be rewarded. I talked my vendor into a free set of rechargeable batteries, a charger and knocked them down on the price of a larger memory card.

Shopping.com digital camera site

Bizrate.com- another iteration of the vendor/product review site. Good for second opinions on vendor performance.