Best buys from Google's great online shopping festival

Coupondunia.in

This covers almost every big shopping website in India. You can view deals by category (travel, food and fashion) or browse through the list of stores. A handy search bar at the top lets you find deals quickly. Codes are not visible directly and you need to click on the box to view them.

It also shows you success rates for each coupon.

Cuponation offers coupons and offers from over 2,000 brands.

You can choose to view the top 20 deals, check out the latest coupons, browse coupons available in different categories or just view an alphabetical list of all stores.

Moreover, they also have a dedicated page to show deals for the Great Online Shopping Festival 2014. Discount vouchers open up in a pop-up window along with a link to directly visit the partner.

Mydala looks more at offline deals. The site lists deals on restaurants, salons, spas, hotels, cabs, groceries and activities like dance classes, movies and events

. The process is simple — you select a deal, purchase a deal coupon and then either sign-in to your mydala account or get the deal code on your mobile number by paying a minimal amount. The coupon will be sent via email to you — just present the coupone to the offline retailer to avail the deal/discount.

Refurb or refurbished products are those that were returned due to a small defect and are being sold again by the manufacturer after fixing the issue.

They could also be pre-owned, products with minor cosmetic damage or products with damaged or missing boxed. If you’re OK with this, there are some great deals around.

Check out www.greendust.com,www.reglobe. in and www.gobol.in — all of them let you sell or purchase pre-owned and refurbished devices.

Other times, you can get surplus stock, damaged boxes and factory seconds for a song. For most of these devices, you get a 3 or 6 month warranty from the company instead of a full year. Just make sure to read the fine print before placing an order.

We’ve seen that most products on these websites get sold out so you need to check back regularly for new additions.

At the moment, www.cashkaro.com is our service of choice in India and it works with over 500 online retail partners.

To earn cash back, you need to register for a free Cashkaro account. You can then browse through Cashkaro’s partners and head to a partner e-commerce site using the website link on Cashkaro to make a purchase.

Now you just need to shop normally and once you have completed a transaction, the retailer passes on a commission back to Cashkaro for a referral (usually within 72 hours).

When Cashkaro receives this commission (usually within 4 – 12 weeks), they share a bit of the cash with you by adding it to your account (the amount varies).

You can request for a transfer of the money into your own bank account once you have `250 or more saved up in your account. You can also try www.paidkart.com, www.pennyful.in and www.gopaisa.com.

As is evident from the name, Phonecurry lets you compares prices for mobile phones.

You can search for a smartphone within a specified price range according to your requirements or browse through popular lists.

The site shows you the lowest price available across various e-commerce websites, along with a direct link to buy the product and links to expert reviews.

Mysmartprice lets you compare prices for electronics, apparel, baby products, beauty products, kitchen appliances and even health products.

Apart from viewing prices across various online retailers, you can also set to be notified via mail alert for a price drop on a particular product.

The site also has a price history graph for the price of each product — this can be helpful to understand the price change pattern of a product.

If you’re specifically looking for travel deals, check out Ixigo.

Here, you can compare fares for flights, trains, hotels and buses across flight operators and travel websites. They also have an option to set fare alerts and can display a lowest fare graph to find the best deals.

You can also compare prices of destination packages across various operators.

A new addition is their LTC cashback offer through which you can redeem cash on completion of a travel booked via Ixigo.

Junglee lets you compare prices of a product across more than 2,300 shopping websites.

You can compare prices for electronics, books, appliances, toys, men/women apparel, furniture, baby products, gourmet food items, health products, musical instruments, pet supplies and even automobile accessories.

You can view prices across various websites, seller rating, and estimated delivery times. You can also set to be notified of a price drop via mail.