Free shipping day is Dec. 16!

There is scant time to finish your Christmas shopping online! Most retailers require online purchases to be completed by Dec. 16, 2011 to guarantee Christmas Eve delivery.

If you do not finish your online shopping by tomorrow, you have two options.

1. Pay a ton for expedited shipping.

2. Fight the crowds at the mall, then package your gifts, wait in line at the post office, and pay for Priority or Express shipping.

If you shop tomorrow, thousands of online merchants – 2,339 to be exact – are participating in Free Shipping Day. What that means is that these 2,339 merchants all offer free standard shipping AND guarantee your gifts will arrive by Christmas. Some have minimum spend requirements, others don’t. Most allow dollar off or percentage off coupons on top of free shipping, which is hot.

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When you shop online, get a cash back rebate on every purchase by shopping through Ebates. Don’t leave money on the table!

Free Shipping Day is Dec. 16

Just a heads up to let you know that Free Shipping Day, when hundreds of online retailers offer free shipping with guaranteed Christmas Eve delivery, is coming up on Dec. 16, 2011. If you shop online, get a cash back rebate on every purchase by shopping through Ebates.

Some retailers have minimum spend requirements, others don’t. Here is an abbreviated list of the 1,595 participating retailers.

Apple Store

Barnes & Noble

Beauty.com

Bed Bath and Beyond

Best Buy

Bloomingdales

Columbia

Dell

Dockers

Drugstore.com

DSW

Forever 21

Gaiam

Harry & David

JC Penney

Kmart

Kohl’s

Land’s End

Levi’s

Macy’s

Melissa & Doug

Nordstrom

Office Depot

Office Max

Old Navy

Oriental Trading

Radio Shack

REI

Sears

Sephora

Tiger Direct

Walgreens

If you are willing to pay for expedited shipping ($$$), the deadlines stretch as late as Dec. 22.

Best Buy
Standard: Dec. 20, 11 a.m. EST
Express: Dec. 21, 11 a.m. EST
Fastest: Dec. 22, 11 a.m. EST

Cabela’s
Standard: Dec. 16
Express: Dec. 20, 9 p.m. CST
Fastest: Dec. 22, 11:30 a.m. CST

Lands’ End
Standard: Dec. 14
Express: Dec. 19
Fastest: Dec. 21

DSW
Standard: Dec. 17, midnight EST
Express: Dec. 21, midnight EST
Fastest: Dec. 22, midnight EST

JCPenney
Ship-to-store: Dec. 19
Standard: Dec. 20
Fastest: Dec. 22, noon CST

Kmart
Standard: Dec. 16
Express: Dec. 21
Fastest: Dec. 22

Joann
Standard: Dec. 13, 11 a.m.
Express: Dec. 15, 11 a.m.
Express Plus: Dec. 20, 11 a.m.

Kohl’s
Standard: Dec. 18 11 p.m. CST
Fastest: Dec. 21, 11 p.m. CST

Sierra Trading Post
Standard: Dec. 15
Express: Dec. 21, 3 p.m. MST
Fastest: Dec. 22, 3 p.m. MST

Sears
Standard: Dec. 16
Express: Dec. 21
Fastest: Dec. 22

Zappos
Standard: Dec. 16