RetailMeNot has a crazy number of coupon codes for more than 50,000 retailers and brands, with 500,000-plus offers at any given time. You can search for whatever website you’re looking to buy from, or the mobile app can send you offers for nearby stores and restaurants based on your location. RetailMeNot also partners with retailers on a weekly basis to provide exclusive offers to customers as well.
DealNews offers daily deals from around the Internet on a variety of products, particularly electronics. It is constantly updated with new deals, but the backlog is fairly impressive as well if you take the time to search through. The site’s deal hunters monitor more than 2,000 online retailers and relay their findings at least 200 times a day. DealNews also offers email alert options for when prices change on items you’ve flagged.
FreePriceAlerts tries to do the deal hunting for you. It’s a browser add-on that searches other retail sites for you while you’re browsing on one to find the best deal available. You can also sign up for email alerts for items to let you know when prices fall to levels you want.
Often you can find a great deal, only to realize that the shipping is almost as much as the item itself. FreeShipping offers coupons for free shipping for more than 4,000 merchants so you won’t end up breaking the bank just to get your purchase to your house.
Gift cards are the lazy gift-givers best friend, but there’s no reason to pay full price for them. Sites such as CardCash sell merchants’ gift cards for less than face value, and will even buy back gift cards you don’t want for 80-to-90 percent of the card’s value. This means you can get cold, hard cash for that Barnes & Noble card your aunt gave you, since everyone knows you don’t read anyway.
Slickdeals is a community-powered deal site. Members share coupon codes and sales they’ve found across the web. With deals ranging from electronics to apparel, and travel to toiletry items, Slickdeals has something for everyone. Though the site offers some deals on its homepage, it’s the forums where the true deals can be found.
Fatwallet covers major retailers as well as smaller, more local stores, and is largely community-powered as well. It has the added bonus of removing links after they expire, replacing them with new deals to ensure you get the best bargain. The forums are home to millions of members, meaning you have a great chance of finding a good deal if you take the time to search through them.
BradsDeals is unique in its focus. While many deal sites focus on electronic products, BradsDeals is more focused on the smaller things that we all buy such as clothing, jewelry and household items. Most deals are available for online purchase as well as in printable versions to take with you if you’re headed to the store. The site is also among the easier ones to navigate, and allows you to sort your search results by date, popularity, effectiveness, and more.
With nearly 40,000 coupon codes on the site, PromotionalCodes offers exclusive deals for more than 5,600 stores. While the site is easy to navigate itself, there is also a browser add-on that will alert you if a coupon is available while you’re online shopping.
Last but not least, Decide is a price-prediction tool that helps consumers figure out when they should make their purchase, and whether or not prices will be going down in the near future. Decide members have the added bonus of a price guarantee so they will be refunded the difference if they are given wrong information by the website.
