Commercial resources, patents, restaurants & shopping

This page was written by Christopher Spry

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.
• Mondus.co.uk, Procurement of office supplies and equipment for small businesses.
• 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. 
• Justbooks UK. European marketplace for second-hand, rare, and out-of-print books.
• 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.
• The Digital Camera Company, Guildford, Surrey, UK.
• 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 
• OneSwoop Import cars to the UK
• See also 'Travel'

8. Department Stores

• Wal-Mart online.

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.

• 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
• 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.

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© cspry@sghms.ac.uk. Department of Biochemistry & Immunology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK. Phone +44 20-8725 5819; fax +44 20-8725 5821. This page was last updated on 29 May 2002 16:58:26.