Price comparison websites are just falling over themselves to help you save money online with their automated programs that infiltrate retail websites and then bring you back the prices for the items you're looking for. Pricerunner's no exception and it'll only take you a few minutes to tie down the best price. It makes it easy by offering you a list of products nearest to your search criteria which you can then narrow down to the exact product and check on the best deals.

Believe it or not Tesco offers you the opportunity of pitching its own prices against those of Sainsbury, Morrisons and Asda although it's not always the cheapest (but of course they’re doing it to show you that they usually are). You can compare the prices of most of your general groceries right down to the basics but it's most useful when you want to buy booze! For example, at time of writing I’m checking on a 75cl bottle of Talisker Malt Whisky. Tesco’s price is £19.97, Sainsbury’s is £25.99 and Asca is £19.97. Quite a difference, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Looking for a particular vintage of Pomerol? Or just Oyster Bay Chardonnay? With prices differing by as much as 40% you need this site if you're considering buying more than a single bottle of wine. Do register for the pro-version to get all the benefits and they’ll search for you throughout the World if you want. Bear in mind that the prices you’re given don’t include VAT, nor do they take into account any special offers that retailers such as Majestic may have going at any time so you should check those as well.

With Kelkoo you really do need to know the exact specification of what you’re looking for to get the best results, as you don’t get a defined product list offering you everything containing your initial search criteria but a mixture of relevant products. If you specify exactly what you want you’ll get all those products at the top of the page with prices, site ratings, descriptions and delivery costs.

However much you may dislike those extremely noisy computer games (and often violent, but let's not go there), you won't want your precious ones spending more of their not so hard earned pocket money than they need to. If you want to get them the latest game for Christmas or they want to choose one themselves then send them to Games Tracker, where you/they can compare the prices with all the retailers for any specific game and get the deal of the moment.

The next time you're looking for a new washing machine, or mobile phone, or camera, click straight through to this excellent price comparison website. If you haven’t given them an exact specification you’ll get a list of all the possibilities and the relevant websites. Click on the one you want and you’ll get all the information you need to decide from price (of course), stock availability, delivery charge and site rating. You then just have to click through to buy from their preferred retailer or wherever you choose.