It’s Christmas season again and while you might be eyeing your favourite Apple Ipod and other Electronics goodies or Amazon Kindle, it’s nice to know that there are ways to shop without blowing a hole in your budget.

109things has a nice feature called Email Alerts. You can set limits for new and used product prices. Once that limit is met, 109things will immediately notify you by email.

Producers of items, like authors and manufacturers can even set limits for Amazon Sales Ranks! Again, they will be notified when the limits are reached. The entire process takes less than 1 minute.

And if you’re not sure whether to buy an Ipod or Microsoft’s Zune, then 109things will let you compare both items side by side in the same browser window. In fact, 109things supports up to 20 side-by-side product comparisons, so you have no excuse for buyer’s remorse later

And because everything you buy is sold by Amazon.com and it’s merchants, you are assured of a wide selection of sellers and prices.