>>> Ebay I am skeptical since either shipping is high or sometimes in the bidding war the price gets too high.

You actually spend time trying to OUTBID someone on eBay? Don't do that!
I either buy it with a great "buy it now" or I use one of the many "slamming" sites- www.bidslammer.com . They will bid for me on the last 5 seconds of any bid and charge me about 50 cents to a dollar for the service! They even offer group bids. Say I want to bid on a Dell laptop- I'll list 10 of them and then put down rediculous bids. One after another will lose- but usually one does come through and bingo! A WIN. The rest of the remaining laptop bids are put to rest.

Shipping costs are a problem sometimes, but you simply have to consider it in your overall bid consideration. Sometimes there isn't even a shipping charge, s.a. like the Sharp Aquos HDTV that I won. Occasionally I do use other sites, though- www.ecost.com , www.amazon.com and www.buy.com are 3 of my favorites due to their lack of shipping and great prices.

Last edited by alborg; 03/14/2008 8:23 AM.