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Shopping
at 9UK - UK Stuff By The Nine - Top 9 UK Shopping
Sites If you love
shopping then this is the page for you. We've
hand-picked the very best nine UK online shopping
websites. Give 'em a visit, chuck your hard-earned
cash at them and wait for the postman to bring a
stash of goodies to your door! Sub-Categories
- Online
Food & Drink Christmas
Jumper Okay,
jumper fans - this one isn't just for
Christmas, despite the title! Christmas
Jumper say their jumpers are "just like
granny used to make". If your granny
knitted with cheap wool and smelled of wee
then maybe that's not such a great thing
but we think it's supposed to be a selling
point. Christmas
Jumper have a simply awesome range of cool
jumpers and have some comedy sweaters at
really decent prices. They sell to all the
major TV and film companies so you know
you're in safe hands. The
quality of these jumpers is second to none
- they only sell individually knitted
jumpers, made with wool blend yarns.
They're massively popular, selling
thousands every day during August to
January. Dead
Good Undies A
leading retailer in the expanding world of
men's fashion underwear and swimwear,
stocking all sorts of everyday, classic
and sexy designs throughout the
year. Dead
Good Undies have sourced some of the best
and most comfortable mens underwear
and swimwear from around the world and in
some cases they are the exclusive retailer
to the UK market. Based
in the UK but with worldwide distribution,
Dead Good Undies aim to get all weekday
orders placed before 4pm on their way to
customers the same day. Dead
Good Undies gets most business from male
shoppers but they are reporting a growing
number of regular female buyers, with
significant peaks for Valentines and
Christmas. Also, many customers are now
ordering from the USA, Canada, Australia
and the Far East. Toys
R Us Toys
R Us is not just the UK's biggest toy shop
- it's also the biggest in the
world! You'd
be forgiven for thinking that Toys R Us is
just a fun place to buy kids stuff but
scratch the surface and you'll find LOADS
more stuff going on. They sell family
stuff, baby care, video games, computers,
bikes and just about anything else where
there's fun involved. Take a look at what
they have to offer - we guarantee you'll
be both surprised and
impressed. The
UK site for Toys R Us opened nearly
fifteen years ago (1996, to be precise)
and they've done a really good job of it.
It's fair to give them credit for offering
the best customer service and product
choice of any online top shop. Yeah, you
can head down to one of their megastores
but if you want to avoid the crowds and
screaming kids then their online shop is a
far better option. Probably
the biggest surprise at Toys R Us is that
it's not just about the kids - there are
plenty of reasons for adults to check them
out. They sell phones, cameras, laptops,
video games consoles and they sell in
large numbers so they can pass on some
huge discounts. Toys
R Us offer completely free delivery on all
orders over £150 and they always have
weekly 'special offer' promotions worth
checking out. They're also very fresh and
topical - right now they have some awesome
Toy Story 3 stuff on sale. Take a look -
they do lots more than you
think. Play If
you play games then Play.com is very much
a one stop shop that's worth bookmarking.
They sell EVERYTHING that gamers could
ever need and it all comes with FREE
delivery. The
variety of games and accessories at Play
is overwhelming and they cover just about
any format you can think of - XBox, PS3,
Wii, DSi, DS, PSP, PS2 and PC. If you play
games on something they don't support then
we dread to think what you could be using
or when you bought it! Put that Sinclair
Spectrum in the attic! Play
do sell loads more than just games - they
also have music, movies, electronics,
gadgets, books, tickets, clothes and
shed-loads more. In fact, they're probably
a better online shop than Amazon and the
free delivery offer just makes them all
the more special. If you've always been an
Amazon customer then it can be hard to
break that habit (we know!) but it's
definitely worth giving Play a few orders
- you're likely to become a regular
customer. Find
Me A Gift Most
of us have found ourselves struggling to
find something decent to buy our friends
or family and there are quite a few online
shopping sites that'll help. Find Me A
Gift is one of the better gift shopping
sites and we've used them quite a few
times. They have a great range of gifts,
split up into easy-to-use categories such
as gifts for men, women, birthdays,
bargains, novelties, christening gifts and
loads more. Find
Me A Gift are based here in the UK
(Warwickshire, to be precise) and delivery
is super-fast so they're ideal for those
last minute events you've only just
remembered! Fatcheese
Cashback Fatcheese
is a UK shopping portal that gives you
cashback on your online shopping. The site
is free to use and you can buy from more
than 1,200 online retailers and get
sizeable amounts of money back. Cashback
sites are becoming massively popular but
for some stupid reason, here at 9UK.com we
hadn't tried using them until recently. We
should have joined one years ago! You can
do your normal online shopping at the same
retailers and still pay the same prices -
the only difference is that you get money
back! Some
merchants listed at Fatcheese are actually
free and you'll still get cashback! For
example, some are surveys or free
membership sites. So
why is it free to use? Well, all of the
online retailers will give Fatcheese a
commission payment when you make your
purchase. We assumed that Fatcheese would
share this commission with their customers
but they actually give you ALL of the
commission - that's the 'cashback' you get
paid. Fatcheese make their money by
keeping the first £5 you earn each
year as an annual subscription fee. We
think that's a brilliant deal. Fatcheese
also offer a handy live chat facility
which allows users to speak directly to a
member of their customer
service. Moneybookers
Shop If
you've never heard of 'Moneybookers' then
don't fret - it's pretty easy to explain.
They're an e-wallet and work pretty much
the same as PayPal. You can even get a
prepaid debit card with it so you can take
your funds out of any ATM throughout the
world - something that PayPal have only
recently started to do. Moneybookers
Shop is a useful directory of online
shopping sites where you can pay with
Moneybookers. You can also sign up for a
Moneybookers account via the
site. It's
perhaps worth mentioning that Moneybookers
are in the process of re-branding and
re-naming themselves as 'Skrill'. Yeah,
it's a horrible new name and no-one seems
to like it but that's what they're
doing. Dobbies If
you're the outdoors type then Dobbies
could be just your thing. They're a hugely
successful online garden centre and
they're brilliant at what they do -
they've been keeping gardeners happy for
nearly 150 years! Selling
some really cool garden products, Dobbies
are also on hand if you need a bit of
gardening advice. You'll find them to be
really knowledgeable and friendly. Check
out their massive selection of plants and
gardening equipment. They've also got
dining furniture, greenhouses, sheds and
water features. Top
Ups Direct This
is a website that enables you to top up
your 'pay as you go' mobile phone balance
without leaving the house. You can top up
any UK pay as you go network and vouchers
start from just £5. You can pay
either via PayPal or you can send a direct
payment from your bank. It's quicker to
use PayPal and that's how we've done it
each time we've purchased phone credit
from Top Ups Direct. The
Top Ups Direct website definitely has an
amateurish-feeling to it and we're
guessing it's a new/small operation but
we're happy enough to recommend them and
help them to grow. We've always received
our voucher code (via text) within a few
minutes of paying and we think it's a
great way to top up your phone without
having to go outside! Top
Ups Direct work with Vodafone, 3,
Lycamobile, Nomi, Orange, T-Mobile,
Talkmobile, Tesco and Virgin. |
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