Online Holiday Shopping Tips: Beyond eBay & Amazon

AuctionBytes offers shopping tips for online holiday shopping.

Smart shoppers can save time and money and still find the perfect gift online by traveling the 'side streets and back roads of the Internet, according to AuctionBytes.com, a publisher of newsletters for online auction buyers and sellers. eBay and Amazon are great places to start, but there are also many small marketplaces offering excellent values.

"Online merchants have stocked their stores for the holidays and you can find some amazing and unique gifts," says David Steiner, president of AuctionBytes.com. For holiday gift-givers, Steiner offers the following online shopping tips:

- Use a shopping search engine like Froogle (http://www.froogle.com), Yahoo! (http://shopping.yahoo.com) and Shopping.com (http://www.shopping.com).

- If there is a collector in your life, online shopping is ideal for finding that one piece that will complete their collection. Online antiques malls like Tias (http://www.tias.com), Ruby Lane (http://www.rubylane.com) and GoAntiques (http://www.goantiques.com) offer a great selection.

- Check out some of the smaller auction sites such as ePier (http://www.epier.com), SellYourItem (http://www.sellyouritem.com) or BidVille (http://www.bidville.com) These sites may have hidden gems that are great deals because theyre not as heavily trafficked as eBay or Amazon.

You can find "AuctionBytes Tips for Online Holiday Shopping" on the AuctionBytes Web site at http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y203/m10/abu0104/s03.

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