The creator of the site was inspired by a story of Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com founder) who had a bell ring each time Amazon had a new buyer. Obviously, this method isn’t convenient if you get a lot of sales per day but it certainly helps in the early days of your company.

Features

• Get alerted by a beep sound when you get a new customer
• Put the javascript code on site and thank you pages

Check out Bellbot@www.bellbot.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

They have a wide range of customized products available. Items like sporting goods, clothing, electronics and beauty needs are all represented. Once you narrow it down to a category, there are literally hundreds of products to choose from. They even have an iPhone case that costs over $7,000.

Once you find a product that interests you, they will link to the retailer that carries the product. Of course, if browsing for random products doesn’t suit you, you can always use their search feature to find exactly what you are looking for.

Features:

• Browse customized products from a range of categories.
• Links to retailers carrying each listed product.
• Search function to find exactly what you are looking for.

Find Make Yours @ www.madeyours.com

Obviously, with a service like this, there are bound to be some ifs and buts. The Bucks blog at NYTimes offers a nice long critique of the service discussing a lot of points which is beyond the scope of this article. It is recommended that you give that a read too before making your purchase.

Features

• Get extended warranty on products.
• Register product with the site after buying.
• Similar tools: Warrantyelephant.

Check out FreeWarranty.com @ www.freewarranty.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

To start, Presentify.me will ask you if you have already purchased a coupon or not. If you do not have a coupon yet, you can search for coupons using their aggregator. Once you have purchased a coupon, just click “Presentify it!” to start designing the gift certificate. You can choose from different templates, edit the details of the coupon, and attach the voucher information that you paid for.

Once done, you can print the voucher-turned gift certificate and send it out to your friend. Presentify.me effectively makes boring e-mail coupons attractive and worthy of the deal.

More themes will be available soon, as this is shaping to be a nice addition for deal-buyers.

Features:

• Convert your purchased deals into gift certificates.
• Works with Groupon, Tippr, Dealfind, and Giltcity.
• Load your purchased coupon or find a deal from the website.
• Choose from three holiday themes.

Check out Presentify.me @ http://www.presentify.me

The site provides tools like “Buy later” bookmarklets to add products you come across while browsing the web, to your profile. If you are browsing the site, you may filter the products by categories and prices to find exactly what you need.

Features

• Discover and track new products from across the web.
• Add all kinds of products to your collection.
• Filter by categories and prices.

Check out Svpply @ www.svpply.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Midtownrow makes it easy for anyone living in the United States, to buy food related products of specialty brands with just a few clicks.

Currently, Midtownrow ships the following products, fresh, right to your doorstep – roasted coffee, tea sourced from around the globe, and a variety of confectionary and baked treats such as cookies, chocolates, and macaroons. Not only that, but the prices are kept at their lowest to ensure everyone can afford them.

Features:

• Tea, bakery and other items available to order right from your home.
• Shipped fresh at the most affordable price.
• Read product reviews before purchasing.
• Only available for people living in the United States.
• Similar tools: GourmetOrigin, Foodzie and GourmetLibrary.

Check out Midtownrow @ www.midtownrow.com (By Hammad from TechnicallyDigital)

Swifto is a wonderful web service that procures items for you in last-minute situations. The entire process works in a very simple way. You start by letting the site know what it is that you are exactly looking for; this can be anything, from a toothbrush to cleaning services – but the more specific you are, the better. Next you specify your location and the amount you are willing to pay for the item or service. Swifto will then use its algorithm to find local retailers and other business partners that can procure what you are looking for. When it finds your item it lets you know and helps obtain the item you want to purchase.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps you find items locally.
• Lets you specify item details.
• Lets you specify your location and budget.
• Similar tools: GrubHub and MissyFlowers.

Check out Swifto @ www.swifto.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

YoYo is an online shopping store for childrens toys, a company now acquired by Amazon. You can visit the site’s homepage and start looking for toys according to their type. To narrow down the results you can select the age of child you will be buying the toy for; you can also filter toys according to gender and price.

YoYo boasts a collection of 20,000 toys; this impressive figure includes bestselling toys as well as classics and rarities. In addition to regular toys, the site includes children’s books, collectibles, and videogames.

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• An online store for toys.
• Has an amazing toy collection.
• Also offers children’s books, videogames, and collectible.
• Lets you filter toys by age, gender, price, and type.

Check out YoYo @ http://www.yoyo.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Non-geeks may call this website a place to sell junk, but this is a great resource nonetheless for people who are looking for hard-to-find electronics. You can search and trade for new and used products, and even barter your wares with other users. As you shop around, you will find items as low as $2 so you can be sure that you get only the cheapest prices here.

To shop for items, you can select from categories like silicon, digital, radio, audio, light and more. Then you can browse for each item to see its price, origin, picture, description and even serial numbers for reference.

The Junkbox is perfect for those needing materials for DIY projects or for selling of stuff you don’t need at home but may still be useful for others.

Features:

• Trading shop for new and used electronic products.
• Find peculiar stuff here.
• Payment system included.
• Search for through categories like passives, silicon, digital, radio, audio, lights, and more.
• Barter your items.
• Search by date and price.
• If you are looking for yard sales in your are, check theseout:  GarageSalesTracker, YardSaleTreasureMap, Gsalr and WeekendTreasure.

Update: The site is no longer functional.

Check out The Junkbox @ www.junkbox.org

Using the site is quite simple. You start by entering your name, email address, and the details of the product you are looking for. These details include your item’s category, type, make, model, condition, price range, and a description for you to clearly define what you are looking for. Clicking on the “Search” button sends a notification to participating pawnshops and the ones carrying what you are looking for respond via email.

PawnSearcher itself acts only as the notification service to pawnshops – it does not profit from the transactions as they are made directly between you and the pawnshop.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps find products in pawnshops.
• Lets you enter full details of what you are looking for.
• Pawnshops contact you via email if they carry your item.

Check out PawnSearcher @ www.pawnsearcher.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)