What are your favorite price search engines? Please list them (provided they aren't on competing deal sites).

Get Amazon Book/CD prices free by phone: 1-888-WE SIGNAL (888-937-4462) - use when you are out shopping in a B&M crimson

General
AimLower miranda
Become miranda
Brilliant Shopper digThisXL
ClipFire miranda
Deal Time digThisXL
Epinions dejavu
Froogle mackerdack
MySimon Spork
Nextag ToursRUs
Price.com ToursRUs
Price Fresh (aka Active Compare) mackerdack
PriceGrabber Spork
PriceScan ToursRUs
Shopzilla miranda
Smarter miranda
Yahoo Shopping Alan

Books
AddALL mackerdack
Best Book Buys Superman
Bigwords rasheed
Book Finder crimson
BookHQ Miranda
Direct Textbook Miranda
Discount Textbooks crimson
Fast Book Finder crimson
ISBN.nu jlv

DVDs
DVD Aficionado P0ldy
DVD Price Compare Miranda
DVD Price Search crrdsh
Movie Wormer mackerdack

Gas
B$ Discussion Thread: Gas Prices wurlybird9
Fuel Me Up (Gas Prices) Miranda
Gas Buddy wurlybird9
Gas Price Watch wurlybird9
AAA Fuel Cost Calculator crimson

Games
Game Brink -- Miranda
Game Tab -- Miranda
Game Price Zone -- Miranda


Magazines
Amagerea excoriator

Medical
Dental Cost Comparison crimson
PharmacyChecker (online & mail order Rx prices) crimson
Pill Bot (Rx Comparisons) crimson

Musical Instruments
PrePal (Used instruments) crimson

Rates (wireless, ISP, travel, insurance, loans, credit cards, etc.)
My Rate Plan crrdsh

Shipping
B$ Discussion Thread: Shipping Rate Search wurlybird9
InterShipper wurlybird9
IShip DamnItJim
Value Ship

Tech & Electronics
Cnet Allisolm
ibuyernet.com ToursRUs
Price Watch mackerdack
StreetPrices mackerdack
Windows Marketplace mur_lag & miranda

Tools
Power Tools mackerdack

Travel
Airport Discount Parking coreynyc
Bidding For Travel Nack
Cheap Tickets B$ Aff mackerdack
Fare Compare crimson
Hotwire B$ Aff mackerdack
Kayak crimson
Longterm Parking.com crimson
Mobissimo Travel crimson
Orbitz B$ Aff mackerdack
Park Sleep Fly (special rates for 1 night hotel stay and 14 days of parking, et al) crimson
Sidestep.com (Airfare, hotel, & rental car price search) crimson
Smarter Living's Last-Minute Web Fares crimson
Total Travel Insurance crimson
Trip Advisor digThisXL
WhichBudget crimson


B&M SALES FINDERS

Book Sale Finder crimson
Cairo crimson
MeatAds.com crimson
SalesCircular.com digThisXL
SalesHound.com basset
Shop Local crimson


SEARCH TOOLS

I'll have to bookmark those. Thanks, mackerdack.

I use the old standby's of mysimon.com and pricegrabber.com - froogle's a bit of a newfound favorite, but I don't like the fact that I haven't yet figured out how to sort from lowest to highest price and there seem to be a lot of spurious results in my searches there.

ibuyernet.com

nextag.com

price.com

pricegrabber.com

pricescan.com

i like froogle

Cnet for some tech/electronic stuff.

i use pricegrabber and nextag for more legit dealers
then pricescan and pricewatch for the more shady ones when i want to try a 'hail mary' PM

:lol:

pricegrabber.com

It's not exactly a "search engine", but I use www.biddingfortravel.com in much the same way as a search engine for travel-related products such as hotel rooms, plane tickets and rental cars booked through priceline. It will tell you exactly what people have successfully bid for in your area, so you know about what you will have to pay in a given area for a hotel room or a ticket.

pricegrabber and epinions

bestbookbuys.com for an alternative to addall for low book prices

amagarea.com is great for magazine subscription comparisons.

check out dvdpricesearch.com for dvd's

Please keep adding to the list (especially if you know of any "specialized" search engines).

Yahoo has price comparison shopping now.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/

Some top level headings include:
Apparel
Computers
Electronics
Home & Garden
Flowers & Gifts
Books
Music
Toys

myrateplan.com

has comparisons for:
wireless
long distance
travel
satellite tv
credit cards
loans & financial
insurance
internet (dialup, dsl, etc)

i havent looked into the site much, but definately worth checking out

couple more.

general:
dealtime.com

travel:
tripadvisor.com

Oh, one more:

General
http://www.salescircular.com/

http://www.saleshound.com/saleshound/slh_d...p?justsetzone=y

set to your area

I just ran across a general price search engine that I know nothing about:

Price Fresh (aka Active Compare)

Anyone have any opinions about this one?

beef, pork, & poultry store prices:
http://www.meatads.com/Sunday_ads.htm



books:
http://www.bookfinder.com/
http://www.fastbookfinder.com/



lists used book sales, stores, fairs, auctions and more:
http://www.booksalefinder.com/



Dental cost comparisons:
http://www.bracesinfo.com/dentalcosts/



used musical instrument prices:
http://www.prepal.com/welcome.htm



Rx drugs:
http://www.pillbot.com/



shipping costs:
http://www.intershipper.com/

Original discussion thread on shipping rate search

If you like the idea of linking to seperate discussion thread subcategories, to keep things a little more organized, maybe you would like to create similar threads, or find existing ones to link to.

OTOH, it would require mackerdack to check the add'l threads.... But, it might make "yay or nay" discussions a little easier....although editing the initial post makes a good quick reference, more specifically defined sub-threads make it easier to follow opinions on what's good, what's crap, and why....

I like your idea of linking to discussions about various types of engines. As I find them or am notified of them (by members posting here or PMing me), I'll add the links. Thanks wurlybird9!!!

Gas prices

http://www.fuelmeup.com

Books

http://www.bookhq.com

intershipper doesn't appear to offer the free shipping comparison any longer. See the shipping discussion thread for any new news....

Thanks for the info. I removed the intershipper link from the list, but I left the link to the B$ discussion of shipping rates.

shipping: http://www.iship.com/

IShip is mentioned already in my shipping thread. Please see the discussion there. I liked Intershipper much better, because the rates were much more comprehensive. (fedex and airborne ground, etc).

B$ discussion thread: Gas Prices

I think a discussion is helpful here, because Miranda's link for example, while it may work for her, doesn't give any results in my area.

I have good results with
www.gaspricewatch.com

and best results using this site, which is actually a portal site to sites covering specific states and metro areas:
www.gasbuddy.com

Please report any additions in my thread. Thanks for your patronage!

whichbudget.com: Cheap flights intra-Europe & some between Europe and USA and Canada
37 airlines - 37 countries - 247 airports - 2695 routes

I just found this site for video games.

http://www.gametab.com/pricetabber/

In addition to comparing prices at certain stores, it shows changes in prices for games within the past 24 hrs, 48 hrs, or the past week. Plus, it also searches news headlines for whatever game you search for... it searches as far back as April 24th, 2003.

Another one for video games. I think it's from the same people who made dvdpricesearch.com. It was launched around the same time, but it wasn't very useful back then, but now it is.

http://www.gamepricezone.com

bigwords.com does a good job with textbooks and how to separate used from new very easily.

Rasheed

Before parking your car at the airport, be sure to check Airport Discount Parking

Once there, you give them your departure airport and date and they give you the daily/weekly parking deals for your date/airport. They deal with all major off-site parking companies and typically offer a nice savings over the regular price, other lots, and the on airport property lots.

Of course, they provide free shuttle service to/from the terminal. They also usually offer free coffee/espresso, candy, and ice cream. They also will have your car running with the AC/heat on for you, when your plane lands and you call them to pick you up.

Special deal for those departing Jet Blue from JFK!!! Get two free days (additional days $12.56 +tax) by going through THIS LINK.

PharmacyChecker: compares online/mail order prescription drug prices in US, Canada & international pharmacies
PharmacyChecker: compare online and mail order Rx drug prices

books & textbooks:
http://www.discounttextbooks.net/home.jsp



airfares:
http://travel.mobissimo.com/travel/search_airfare.php



travel insurance:
http://www.totaltravelinsurance.com/

Another one for DVD's

http://www.dvdpricecompare.com

Travel (airfare)

http://travel.mobissimo.com/travel/search_airfare.php

A little OT, but may help you decide which airports to fly through:

Airport security check-in average waiting times:
http://waittime.tsa.dhs.gov/index.html

I use http://isbn.nu/ for searching for books and comparing prices.

a few more related to travel:

airfare, hotels & rental cars price search:
http://sidestep.com/

hotels only:
http://hotels.sidestep.com/hotel/

rental cars only:
http://cars.sidestep.com/car/main_airport.jsp


They ask you to download software for the airfare search, but hotels & rental cars can be searched without DL.

Last Minute Airfare:
Smarter Living's Last-Minute Web Fares

Was about to post a 'new' link, but searching showed it was already buried in IRD. Thought it might be nice to add these to the 'travel' list:


http://www.longtermparking.com/airport.html

http://www.airportdiscountparking.com/

Special deal for those departing Jet Blue from JFK!!! Get two free days (additional days $12.56 +tax) by going through:
http://www.jetblue.com/travelinfo/parking/avistarPark.asp



http://www.parksleepfly.com (special rates for 1 night hotel stay and 14 days of parking, et al)

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

A new travel [airfare & hotel] search engine:

http://www.kayak.com/index.jsp

B&M sales finder:

http://www.shoplocal.com

General

http://www.aimlower.com/

Tech & Electronics, more specifically "Hardware and software that works with Windows"

http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/

Thanks to mur_lag's post in DD for finding this one.

DVDAficionado.com. They give prices of multiple DVD retailers online.