We get a lot of emails asking, “where is the best place to look for …”
To help us answer your questions, we have a list here at BQ HQ where we share all our favorite shopping spots with each other. As well as helping us answer your questions, we also use it to find fabulous things to write about, and of course, to work out which retailers we want as affiliates too!
Today, we’ve decided to share our ’secret’ list with the world. It’s been months of work compiling it, so we hope you find it useful.
Next time you’re looking for something fabulous at a reasonable price, we recommend that you try these retailers. We always have great luck with them, so we’d love to hear your thoughts on them too!
Without further ado, here’s the list:
Bags
Beauty
- Buy Cosmetics
- BuyBeauty.com
- Clarins
- drugstore.com
- LUSH Cosmetics
- Makeup.com Boutique
- Sephora (@ Amazon)
- StrawberryNET.com
Boutiques
Clothing
- Aeropostale
- Arden B.
- Armani Exchange
- Baby Phat
- Bluefly (@ Amazon)
- Brooks Brothers
- C&C California
- dELiA*s
- eDressMe
- FORZIERI.com
- Free People
- Gap.com
- Hot Topic
- Lee Jeans
- Macy’s (@ Amazon)
- OldNavy.com
- Rampage.com
- shopbop.com
- Target (@ Amazon)
- Torrid.com
Department stores
- Amazon.com
- Boscov’s
- Buy.com
- Classic Closeouts
- Kmart
- Kohl’s
- Macy’s (@ Amazon)
- Sears
- SHOP.COM
- Target (@ Amazon)
Fashion
Fragrance
Gifts
Jewelry
Plus-sizes
Ships to Australia
- Amazon.com
- Baby Phat
- Baumhouse Birkenstock
- Brooks Brothers
- BuyBeauty.com
- C&C California
- CafePress.com
- Converse
- dELiA*s
- FORZIERI.com
- Gotham City Online
- Hot Topic
- Lee Jeans
- Max & Chloe
- Shoebuy.com
- SHOP.COM
- shopbop.com
- StrawberryNET.com
- ThinkGeek
- Torrid.com
Ships to Canada
- Aeropostale
- Amazon.com
- Armani Exchange
- Baby Phat
- Baumhouse Birkenstock
- Brooks Brothers
- BuyBeauty.com
- C&C California
- CafePress.com
- Converse
- dELiA*s
- eBags.com
- FORZIERI.com
- Free People
- Gotham City Online
- Hot Topic
- ICE.com
- Lee Jeans
- Limoges Jewelry
- Max & Chloe
- Shoebuy.com
- SHOP.COM
- shopbop.com
- StrawberryNET.com
- ThinkGeek
- Torrid.com
Ships to UK
- Amazon.com
- Baby Phat
- Baumhouse Birkenstock
- Brooks Brothers
- Buy Cosmetics
- BuyBeauty.com
- C&C California
- CafePress.com
- Converse
- dELiA*s
- FORZIERI.com
- Gotham City Online
- Hot Topic
- Lee Jeans
- Max & Chloe
- Nike
- Shoebuy.com
- SHOP.COM
- shopbop.com
- StrawberryNET.com
- ThinkGeek
- Torrid.com
Shoes
- Baumhouse Birkenstock
- Bluefly (@ Amazon)
- endless.com
- FORZIERI.com
- Gotham City Online
- Piperlime
- Shoebuy.com
Sports clothing
Sunglasses
Of course, in choosing these stores, we stuck to our usual policies: i.e. no paid advertising of any form, but we do look for sales-based commission deals (and now have them with almost everyone above) — so we only make money if you find things you love there.
If there’s another category you’d like to see here, please let me know!





eternalvoyageur said,
March 11, 2008 @ 7:02 am
I’m so happy thinkgeek has made it to the list ! I absolutely love their products !