If it moves, you'll find it here. Trader Online is a service that hooks up buyers and sellers of vehicles, including cars, motorcycles, trucks, RVs, heavy equipment, and airplanes. The site offers inventory lists for thousands of dealers and free classifieds that are updated daily. If you're looking for a Cessna or selling a Winnebago, then Trader Online is certainly worth a look. Each section also features links to dealer and private sites related to the type of vehicle you're interested in. The best feature? No salesmen. - David Pescovitz
Providing "tools for serious readers" and other wordy people, Levenger features top of the line furniture, pens, bags, lamps, and desk items. The carefully chosen and nicely presented items will certainly spice up your library, but they'll also empty your pockets. The Investment Desk Lamp is just that at $329, and a WWII Commemorative Duofold pen will set you back $650 (marked down from $850). Not everything in the catalog is a pipe dream, however. There's a leather mouse pad for $24.95, a Gargoyle Pen Cup at $29.95, and a whole lot more. An easy-to-use preview section for each area presents quick-loading pictures to speed up your search. Easy to navigate and good looking, Levenger is a great place to steer your personal Santa. - Emily Soares
Swapmeet junkies and garage sale addicts can get their fix at Haggle Online, an alternative to the traditional online buying and selling format of Usenet. Good deals, small cons, and the chance to feel like you've earned a good bargain with shrewd bidding make Haggle Online unique. Among the goods at the hourly updated site are software, hardware, books, peripherals, and cowboy boots. Each item comes with a description, asking price, lowest acceptable bid price, opening bide date, closing bid date, and highest current bid. Every bidder and seller must register to participate, but membership is free. - Robert Capps
If you live in a dry, hot, godforsaken part of the world, or if you just want to look like you do, then Plants of the Southwest has your flora. Drought is the word of the day at this site, and just looking at it made me a little thirsty. For those trying to get a Delphinium Cardinal, an Echinocerus Tiglochatus, or perhaps just a plant they can forget to water, Plants of the Southwest is ready to serve. The site offers a complete catalog of arid plant seeds for sale and features tips and tricks for getting just the right amount of water to your cacti. Several species are represented with colorful photographs, and a little history helps guide the desert landscaper. - Robert Capps
If it has do with cars, you can probably get it through E Auto. This all-encompassing auto site features--or has links to--Auto Racing, Engines, Auto Dealers, Auto Manufacturers, Specialty Parts, Auto News, and everything else relating to that most beloved of combustion-driven machines. The makers of E Auto are probably more comfortable tweaking the engine of a Dodge Viper than working with HTML, but the site's extraordinary content is actually helped, not hurt, by its simple design. Need to buy a car? Do it here. Need to fix one? Learn how here. Need a pair of fuzzy dice? You get the picture. - Robert Capps
Delmar Boscacci's classic-car-collecting hobby went out of control and produced this extravagant Internet car lot. Some of the world's greatest cars are up for sale here--'50s and '60s Chevys, '70s Porches, Rolls-Royces, and even a 1929 Ford Model A. And hey, while you're here, why not unload that mint-condition Auburn that you've been sitting on? Highway One will help you sell it in its classifieds section. The site even has export connections to ship it to Turkey for you. (Ah ... the hobbies of the upper class.) You don't want to miss the photo gallery of some of the best autos to grace the site. - Robert Capps
This site is like Consumer Reports on steroids. From automobiles to zip drives, there's information here on nearly anything on which you can spend money. This buying guide stores thousands of product-review abstracts and provides links to many of the original reviews. Search by keyword or product category, and Product ReviewNet returns several (or several hundred) review summaries from publications who know the products--from Car & Driver to MacUser. Abstracts include product URLs, prices, and (if a link is not available) citations to the review. While this site is about as ugly as they come, its usefulness will certainly lure you. - Katherine Clary Alward
According to this site, the company who appears to have a conscience here in America behaves very differently in Vietnam--where, according to CBS News, Nike hires subcontractors who brutalize and grossly underpay workers. Here you'll find details of the charges, Nike's paltry responses, articles about this case and Vietnamese labor practices in general, and listings of planned actions and protests. There are always two sides to every story, but you'd be wise to make a quick stop here before you "just do it" and buy anything made by Nike. - Dorrit Tulane Walsh
As soon as I saw the words "dyn-o-mite gifts," I started to feel uneasy. Most items at this online gift shop relate to the finer stimulants in life (wine, beer, cigars, and so on), and each category includes, among other things, a monthly newsletter with a few good articles. The big snag here is that these are all "of-the-month" clubs, so there's a minimum purchase of two months, and club selections are limited. I-Net does sell some individual items, but you have to order those by calling a 1-800 number. It's worth a try, but only if you're out of ideas and time. - Dorrit Tulane Walsh