Shop 'Til You Drop The ins and outs of shopping online for whatever you need for your business

Remember junior high, when the highlight of your weekend was going to the mall and hanging out for five hours straight? Wasn't shopping fun? Now that you've started your own business, don't you still love to spend days and days shopping for the right hardware prices? No? OK, we don't blame you. Nothing is duller than wasting an afternoon hopping from Buy.com to Outpost.com to Egghead.com, searching for the lowest price on that HP OfficeJet you've got to have.

All it takes to speed up the buying process nowadays is you and your trusty sidekick Internet connection. Visiting all the online price-comparison services could be just as time-consuming as visiting all the e-tailers, so we'll help narrow the playing field to get you on your way.

If you're still in the "Compaq or Dell?" stage of things, then Deja.com is a decent starting place. The "We help you decide what products to buy and where to buy them" slogan is certainly promising. Their product wizard involves a few multiple-choice questions and generates a list of hardware products along with user ratings for each and links to retailers that sell them.