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carOrder.com
A recent Editors’ Choice, carOrder.com helps you easily research, customize, price, order, and take delivery of a new car (in any state but Texas) without ever having to interact with a dealer. For a refundable fee ($500, applied to the purchase price), carOrder.com locates your car from within its dealer network and handles all the interactions with the dealer. The all-inclusive purchase price and sale are finalized at the site. You can bring your own financing to the deal or work with carOrder.com’s online partner. While you’re deciding which car to buy, you can store model configurations in a virtual garage for easy comparisons. And the site’s interactive vehicle configurator is exceptionally comprehensive.

http://www.carorder.com/

Garden.com
Garden.com was one of the earliest successful online stores, and its reputation for excellence has only grown over time. Besides offering a mind-boggling number of products, it features an online magazine, active gardening chats, an online garden-design tool, and even a garden doctor who will tackle your questions. A site like this is what specialized shopping on the Web is all about.

http://www.garden.com/

Hifi.com
How is Hifi.com different from other online consumer electronics stores? We like the high-end selection, the 45-day free home trial (the site will even pay return shipping), the excruciatingly detailed component setup and connection guides, the online experts who field your questions, the free shipping, and the price protection. Hifi.com will refund you the difference if you find the item you bought being offered at a lower price elsewhere within 30 days.

http://www.hifi.com/

Lands’ End
Lands’ End has extended the catalog-shopping experience by taking advantage of all kinds of online technologies (most notably, 3-D models that you configure to your body type and then dress to see how you’ll look). Live customer-support reps can chat with you online to help you find the items you want. Plenty of catalogs have made their way to the Web, but Lands’ End goes the extra online mile.

http://www.landsend.com/

Reel.com
Need to buy a video or DVD? Reel.com is the place for movie lovers to shop. It earned a grade of A in our survey of Web site satisfaction, and the site is widely regarded as one of the best-designed shopping sites in all of cyberspace. You’ll also find lots more movie news and reviews than before; Reel.com aspires to be an entertainment portal as well.

http://www.reel.com/

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