"Procrastinators, it's one of your last opportunities to save cash, finish your holiday shopping in your pajamas and still get your packages in time for Christmas.

More than 2,500 retailers will participate in Free Shipping Day on Friday.

Best Buy, DSW Shoes, Overstock.com, the Apple Store and Barnes and Noble are just a handful of the retailers offering free shipping with the promise of delivery by Christmas.

"Free Shipping Day encourages consumers to continue buying online late into December," said Luke Knowles with freeshippingday.com. "It's a money-saving measure for consumers and a way to extend the online holiday shopping season for retailers. Everyone benefits."

Last year's Free Shipping Day generated nearly $1 billion in sales, beating Black Friday for internet sales.

The event grew from 250 retailers in 2008, its inaugural year, to 1,750 in 2010.

For coupons and a full list of retailers, visit www.freeshippingday.com.

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There is a new scam out there, no big surprise. This one has to do with the ability to order something online and then pick it up at your local store and pay for it.

The scammers set up an innocuous-sounding profile on facebook or a dating site and become your friend. The two of you correspond back and forth and you trust them. They email you and say 'oops! I've traveled to Ghana and my iPhone was stolen. Please go over to Walmart and pick up the one I've ordered shipped there, ship it to me, and I'll pay you back." So you go to Walmart to pick up the item, which has been paid for with a fraudulent credit card, and Walmart hasn't figured that out yet. Then you pay a bunch of money (about $60) for the shipping charges to get it to Ghana.

Aside from being out the $60 and being grilled by the police after Walmart calls them, you feel betrayed by your 'friend.' Apparently the victim there in my hometown was just crushed to be used this way; it was more than the money, it was the betrayal of trust that hurt so much.

The police put the story about this case in the paper to warn the public, and remind them that a request to send something to somewhere like Ghana should alert them to a possible scam.