So I have yet another addiction on the internets: Smack Shopping on Jellyfish.com. I've always been a sucker for chat, but now I can buy shit at crazy discounts and chat? Oh yeah!

Here's how Smack Shopping works: Jellyfish puts up an item at full price and as time passes, the price for that item gradually drops until someone from the Smack--that's a group of jellyfish--buys it. The longer you wait, the greater the discount, but also the greater the risk someone else will purchase it from under you.

Between Smack offers, Jellyfish members have a chance to win cash in a guessing game called Outwit the Smack. After opting in, a smacker is chosen at random to play for the current jackpot, while everyone else plays for points. Players win by choosing the least popular of a question's 6 multiple choice answers.

Smack Shopping is just a small part of Jellyfish. The site's main role is that of a shopping search engine. What's great about using Jellyfish to do your internets shopping is that they will give you half of their commission*. So if they get a 10% commission on an item that sells for $100, they'll give you $5 of that back. So not only do you get the best price by being able to shop at multiple stores at once, Jellyfish will give you money for doing so. Pretty sweet, eh?

If you happen to join up, I'm usually on during the gaming show that runs from midnight to 7am. Pay me a visit or add me as a buddy. My nickname in Smack is ThomasJay (yeah, I have no imagination).

*Some vendors will not allow Jellyfish to share their commission, but so far I've only noticed that Amazon does this.