I'm continuing on with my series on the 100 websites PC World recommended. Well kind of; this is my version so I am adding and deleting because I can.
These websites are about buying, selling and renting stuff.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites This was the first site on PC Magazines buying list and I have to admit it is the first on ours also. We love CRAIGSLIST. We bought our Canon Rebel XTi on craigslist and then also bought a flash for the camera. We then sold one of the lenses that came with the camera. We have also bought and sold cars off of Craigslist.
http://www.freecycle.org/ You need to be careful you put .org in and not .com. I thought they were nuts to begin with as I was pulling up a site about cycling. This site is cycling with a twist you are basically recycling your stuff. This is a grassroots, nonprofit site that connects (Via Yahoo Groups) people who might like to trade items within their own community. It can work well to have someone come and get something that you don't want. I guess this comes back to one man's garbage is another man's treasure. Everything posted must be FREE!!
http://us.zilok.com/ This site is TOTALLY focused on Renting. The site host rental listings from people in your community for just about anything. I looked in my area and you could rent anything from camera lenses, to a clearing saw to an RV. You can either rent stuff or sign up to rent your stuff. On their website they explain how you go about renting things or having items available to be rented. This would work for those times when you only needed an item for a few days but really didn't want to buy it.
http://www.carsdirect.com/home This is a great place to buy a car online. According to PC World this is the only web site of its kind that instantly shows you a buy-it-now price with no haggling. I don't know about you but I would almost rather go to the dentist than got to a car lot (used or new). This is a way to get around the ordeal and make it less painless.
http://www.greenzer.com/ This site brings environmental safe products to the consumer. They look for companies that walk the walk and are making products that are environmentally sound. They describe it best in their own words "Greenzer is a next-generation shopping engine designed to make environmentally conscious shopping easier. At Greenzer, we're building a unique service for consumers to browse, compare and shop thousands of greener products from dozens of our carefully chosen merchant partners." You sign up for a free account and start shopping.
http://www.amazon.com/ I'm not sure why Amazon was not on the PC's list but I couldn't talk about where to shop online without talking about Amazon. I love their wish list function. My young adult children make a wish list and then I let my fingers do the shopping. I am not a big shopper and this saves me from driving around trying to find these items. I found out this last Christmas that when I ordered directly from my daughter's wish list it blocks her from knowing that I have ordered the item but stops anyone else from ordering the same item. I learned that one the hard way by looking at her list but then not ordering from the list. We ended up with a couple of duplicate items last year from her friends going on the wish list and ordering the correct way.
http://www.ebay.com/ Ebay was also not mentioned but it is another of my favorite shopping places. We have ordered all kinds of items off of ebay; some popular and others that were not. We have ordered a lot of items for our sail boat. Now if it is a popular item you might be in a bidding war but I love that part of the process. There's something that gets the adrenalin going when you are bidding against someone else. The last few seconds of the bid can make the difference between winning the item or not. Now I set a limit as to what I want to pay so I don't get caught up in the moment.
As I said this is my second in a series about Useful websites. If you would like to visit my first it is at: Websites about "Learning Stuff"!!
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ve Vista and for some reason that happens to me all the time. I can't tell you how many times I have to re-write post or for that matter it happens all the time in Word also. I try to remember to hit save but it is so easy to forget. 
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