ecost.com is a gadget/electronics/technology store. Their front page is visually noisy, but once you get past it, there are excellent prices on a good selection of items. This site doesn’t show up in Froogle/Google Products/Google Shopping or whatever they’re calling it these days, so I always make a trip here to check their prices. For window shopping, the countdown bargains pages are entertaining.
This is a truly fun Hong Kong gadget-y kind of website. All kinds of funny/interesting/useful things priced cheaply and with free shipping, no less!
Ah, the granddaddy of internet shopping. Ecommerce site may come and go, but there will always be Amazon. There’s a reason, rather there are millions of reasons why this one endures. I can find just about anything there at a reasonable price and from a company I’ve grown to trust. And even if I don’t wind up buying it there, it’s great for researching products.
Making reservations at smaller or boutique hotels in Southeast Asia can be very frustrating. Part of the reason is that a lot of these properties don’t belong to an international conglomerate and don’t exist on the the big travel booking systems.