Save Big Bucks On Products, Get-Aways And Services With These Five Amazing Sites

Shopping online can help you save big bucks from the comfort of your couch. By browsing your favorite sites online, you’ll get to check out all the best deals from your favorite stores, then bounce the deals off other retailers in minutes. While your favorite stores offer discounted prices on chosen online products, other sites (including those listed below) specialize in highlighting the best deals from around the net.

Here’s a quick rundown of the top sites that will aggregate all the online deals for you and help you save money when purchasing products, finding ridiculously priced get-aways and saving big bucks on a variety of local services.

Groupon.com – Groupon negotiates discounts (some with significant savings up to 90% off) to provide you savings, while helping local businesses bring in more customers. Deals listed are by city and displays the price, value, discount and savings. The site displays the number of products/services that have been sold and has a countdown timer showing when the deal will expire.

CouponChief.com – This site specializes in online coupon clipping. Search for or browse over 100K coupons from any and every retailer. Coupons presented on the site currently save you approximately $21, so be sure to do store-based or product searches to trim a little off the price tag. Users rate, review, and validate the coupons to help weed out expired and invalid coupons.

Living Social - Living Social is the biggest competitor to Groupon and is structured in much the same way. Deals (of up to 90%) are offered for local businesses in categories that include escapes, families and the deals of the day. By using the combination of Living Social and Groupon, expect some significant savings especially on get aways and services.

DealNews.com – This is my personal go-to site to find deals. The site scours over 2000 online stores to find the 200 or more best deals, presenting them on the site.  DealNews does the work for you by calculating the savings price (subtracting online codes & adding shipping costs), while comparing the deal to previous deals of the same product. A “hotness rating” shows you which deals are the best.

FatWallet.com – This site lists all the coupon codes, promos, discounts and specials from over 1000 retailers. Perhaps even more useful is the deals submitted by the user forums and and Live Deal Feed, with deals posted by members, the staff and stores.

Did I miss any of your favorite sites? Let me know which sites you use to save.