Where the Cyber Monday Deals Are

By CATHERINE SHARICK
time.com

1. Cybermonday.com

Your Cyber Monday plan of action should be: wake up, turn on computer, buy cheap presents online. But with 84% of retailers participating in Cyber Monday — Black Friday's online Christmas shopping cousin — you could spend the whole day searching for deals unsure of when to pull the trigger on the right one. To weed through the madness start the day at the National Retail Federation's website, cybermonday.com, for an aggregation of over 600 holiday deals from web retailers in every category. (It was the NRF that first coined the term Cyber Monday back in 2005.) The site will feature many merchants' best sales — e.g. 40% off all DVD boxed sets at Borders.com and a free gift with purchase in skincare, fragrance or bath at beauty.com. Check back every 60 minutes for cybermonday.com's exclusive "deal of the hour."

2. Audiocubes.com

This Monday, Overstock.com boasts 10% off select flat screen TVs, Walmart.com has a $179 Canon Powershot SD1100 IS digital camera, and Costco.com is selling the Garmin Nuvi 750 GPS for $199. Fine deals, but chances are, these gifts will only wow those who still take pictures with disposable cameras and watch televisions with rabbit ears. So if you're looking to satisfy the knowledgeable technophiles on your list, check out Audiocubes.com for hard-to-find electronic gifts from Japan. You'll find unique presents like the retro looking Zumreed Colored Headphones, Segatoys' Grand Pianist Miniature Piano, and the Dream Chick — a robotic pet chicken that responds to your touch.

3. Pokkadots.com

Buying gifts for an infant or toddler used to be simple: toy trucks for boys and dolls for girls. Modernity demands presents be chic, modern and eco-friendly, thus the existence of Pokkadots.com a hip online children's boutique where you can find a selection of organic clothing, modern nursery furniture and a large retro toy selection including rocking horses and wooden stacking rings. Visitors save 10% on orders of $75 or more. If you are looking for something a little less twee, Toysrus.com is taking 70% off Star Wars figures and $50 off the Guitar Hero wired guitar controller.

4. Momastore.org

Foodies: wonderful to eat for, miserable to shop for. To find a unique present for the snob with the ludicrously well-stocked kitchen visit the Museum of Modern Art's momastore.org for gifts like flexible measuring cups, the Banana Bunker (which protects fruit from bruising while being carried in your purse or briefcase) or a pig shaped pot lid that releases steam and helps stews and stir frys cook evenly. If you want something hand made, check out etsy.com for presents like drinking glasses blown from Red Stripe or Corona beer bottles, or stopper-less salt and pepper shakers made on a potter's wheel. Visit etsy's store blog for Cyber Monday deals such as 2 for 1 reusable coffee sleeves made from Japanese cotton and free shipping from selected sellers.

5. Shopintuition.com

Do you have a Lindsay Lohan look-alike in your family? Too bad. But even the black sheep deserves a crackling gift, so hit shopintuition.com, the online Los Angeles-based boutique that caters to celebrities, celeb-u-tards and all those who love them. Browse the section called "as seen on celebs" to find Degaine Slim Boot Cut Jeans ($195) worn by Jennifer Aniston or the Bryna Nicole Loyola Bag ($550) that Gossip Girl's Blake Lively toted this past fall. The site is offering 25% off all orders and free shipping. If it all sounds too pricey, or skanky, then head over to bananarepublic.com,, which is offering an extra 10% off selected items that have already been discounted up to 40%. Plus get free shipping on any purchase.

6. HarryBarker.com

If you really love your pets, at some point this season you will look at your list and prioritize your four-legged friends over at least a few of your two-legged friends. It's a sickness. Still, trixieandpeanut.com has a luxury trundle bed for chihuahuas, crystal collars for kitties and comfort robes for pugs. Harrybarker.com offers eco-friendly presents like woven leashes and collars made from recycled plastic bottles and hypo-allergenic pet beds made from hemp. If this feels a little specialized, head to the nearest thing there is to a Gap for pets, petsmart.com , offering $10 off orders of $40 or more.

7. Mypublisher.com

Got a few thousand digital photos clogging your hard drive? Compile them into a coffee table book at mypublisher.com. All you have to do is download their book-making software, upload your pictures, arrange them into a story and write captions for each page. Mypublisher.com. prints and binds the pages into a hardcover book for you. It's not hard, but it can be time consuming so make sure you save time to create. First time users receive two books for the price of one.

8. Shopzilla.com

Before you pay for the presents you've placed in your virtual cart, visit shopzilla.com, the shopping search engine that lets you quickly compare prices from different online stores that sell the item you've chosen. Type in the product you're buying and you'll be given a list of merchants currently selling it. If the price you're about to pay isn't the cheapest, surf over to the other stores to check out their offers. Are they offering free shipping? Is their return policy as good as the first merchant's? Are they reputable? Read shopzilla.com's merchant reviews for answers to all of these questions before you submit your order.