Commercial resources, patents, restaurants & shopping
1. Indexes
2. Airlines and air travel
3. Auctioneers online
4. Audio equipment
5. Book retailers
6. Camera, video, digital photography and pro-audio equipment
7. Cars
8. Department Stores
9. Electrical equipment
10. Employment
11. Estate agents, U.K.
12. Films (movies)
13. Flowers & electronic greetings cards
14. Medical services
15. Music retailers, CD and MP3
16. Patents
17. Performing Arts
18. Restaurants
19. Software & database CD retailers
20. Supermarkets, food, drink & gifts
21. Telephone services UK
1. Indexes
Commission Junction. Join the 'cj.com' network to sell products and services from a web site or join as an advertiser and receive commission on referrals and sales your site generates.
- CheckaPrice. UK price comparisons
- CompareNet Compare shopping items in the US.
- US commercial organizations, Index. 'bCentral' Microsoft portal for small businesses.
- WorthGuide information on current auction prices.
- 'Yellow pages' UK. Databases of commercial organizations.
2. Airlines and air travel
- Follow this link.
3. Auctioneers online
- Christies
- Sotheby's
- UK: 'eBay', QXL.
- USA: 'CNET computer Auctions', 'eBay', 'Live Auction Online', Lycos, 'OnSale', 'Yahoo'.
4. Audio equipment
- 'Audio Review', reviews audio equipment available in the States.
5. Book retailers
- AbeBooks.com. Search several thousand secondhand book dealers.
- Advanced Book Exchange search for any purchase books which are out of print.
- 'Amazon' online bookstore with 2.5 million books indexed.
- Barnes & Noble, US 'World's largest bookseller online'.
- Blackwell Publishing, 'Medirect' Science and Medical publishers.
- The Book Pl@ce, Dillon's etc. online bookshop >1.2 million volumes offered.
- Booth Books, Hay on Wye. Search for a book.
- Computer Manuals computer books, UK.
- Dorling Kindersley, UK on-line books.
- Internet BookShop, UK.
- O'Reilly & Associates publications computer books etc.
- Rough Guides, travel books.
- Waterstones, UK. >100,000 books listed.
- WordsWorth Books, USA.
6. Camera, video, digital photography and pro-audio equipment
- BBC Natural History Unit, wildlife photographs
- B & H, New York, USA
- 'Bulbman', 'Bulb Direct'. Purchase replacement bulbs for projectors etc.
- Digital Photography Review reviews and purchase in the USA
- Kagoo Comparison site for digital cameras
- Photo printing services: Jessops' Print@net, Kodak's Print@Kodak and PhoroBox.
- Steve's DigiCam comparisons and reviews of many camcorder and digital still cameras.
7. Cars
- Automobile Association (AA), UK.
- Buy and sell a car: Autobytel.co.uk, Autoweb.com, NetCar,and Microsoft's Carpoint (USA only).
- Car Importing to UK site by Mike Bilsborough
- See also 'Travel'
8. Department Stores
9. Electrical equipment
- Retailers of electrical goods in the UK: 'ASK Electronics', Home Electric direct, Tesco, Value Direct.
10. Employment
- Job hunting resources on Internet index.
11. Estate agents, U.K.
- 'Estate Agents Finder' list of UK Estate Agents
- Froglet.com Online property letting services for landlords and customers.
- Home Hunter
- Homesight, property information
- Home-to-Home
- HouseWeb
- LettingWeb.com Online property letting services for landlords and customers.
- Property Sight
- Property World
- RightMove lists properties from many agents
- UK Property
- UpMyStreet.com, facts about housing by postal region.
12. Films
- Insideout, reviews of UK films
13. Flowers & electronic greetings cards
- Virtual flowers. A nice way to thank people by email.
- Wades Virginia USA. Flower shop with nationwide delivery.
- Blue Mountain Arts greetings 'card' as email messages.
14. Medical services
- BioSupplyNet Searchable on-line directory for biomedical research products and services, Cold Spring Harbor.
- Patient Medical Records, Inc. Links to resources on patient medical records.
- PostOPtics mail-order contact lenses and solutions.
15. Music retailers, CD and MP3
- BBC 'Music Magazine' and CD reviews with links to vendors.
- BTOpenworld Classic music online service.
- CDNow music CDs USA. European CDs are sent from within Europe, without import duty.
- eClassical.com Purchase MP3 classical music online. Sweden.
- Guvnor, music instrument and equipment retailer with links to vendors.
- Music Boulevard USA, music CDs, $10 each and $10 shipping.
- Napster Listen to music on the web.
- Noteworthy Music, USA. CD disk store.
- PastelBlue, UK, music CDs.
- Virgin Megastores
16. Patents
- US Patent & Trademark Office list of all US patents.
- Patents, University of North Carolina.
- Patents gopher.
17. Performing Arts
- 'Brecon Jazz '99' Jazz festival August 1999 in Brecon, Wales.
- Royal Opera House, London.
- 'What's on Stage' from EMAP Online Ltd. UK portal to information and booking performing arts events: opera, music, theatres etc. It has an email alert service.
18. Restaurants
- London UK, Zagat listings
19. Software & database CD retailers
- Walnut Creek software on CDs.
20. Supermarkets, food, drink & gifts
- Asda, UK
- Bordeaux wines, France.
- Food Ferry
- Safeway, UK
- Sainsbury, UK
- Tesco, UK
- Waitrose, UK
21. Telephone services UK
- British Telecom, BT. Internet Access. Call charges; pricing information service; international call prices; discounts and supplementary services. PhoneNet internet directory services. BT's ADSL and service availability check. ADSL trial and technical information, UK.
- Discounted long distance and international telephone calls: First Telecom. Cortex Telecom provide international phone calls between New York, Miami, Brussels, London and Paris at the local rate, paid by advertizing.
- GSM operators and network codes by country. Jürgen Morhöfer's list.
- GSM International coverage: maps and the local suppliers.
- International dialling codes.
- Guide to mobile phones in the UK, by Ian Harrison with links to related sites.
- Magenta Systems comparisons of UK phone tariffs.
- 'Platronics' phone and computer headsets with microphones.
- Hutchison Telecom pagers, UK with European services.
- MobileShop.com. Purchase mobile phones in the UK.
- One2One, UK phone network
- Orange, UK phone network. Purchase phones and services on-line.
- Phone makers: Motorola, Nokia.
- Simple Messaging Service (SMS) send messages to pagers. MTN.
- Teleadapt, connectivity while in other countries
- Telephone directory services in Australia and New Zealand.
- Telewest Communications. Internet services including cable modems/ADSL service.
- Text messaging from PCs to mobile phones: unimobile, iobox, Genie and Orange.
- UK Mobile Phone Directory links to many sites.
- Guide to wiring phone extensions.
- Worldwide phone guide, list of plug types.
- Virgin Media O2, mobile and broadband network.
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