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Discounts and deals site Extrabux posted some interesting statistics on lost sales tax to their blog that show how nearly every state in the US could reduce their budget by about 10% if they started charging sales tax for online purchases. If states starting charging tax for online sales, would you stop shopping online?

Shopping online means no tax and often free shipping, but only if your state lets the company you're ordering from get away with it. Deals, discounts, and price-comparison site Extrabux has discovered the best and worst places to live for shopping online and has a few tips for coping when you're in one of the less-desirable locations.

Not all states are equal when it comes to shopping online. Extrabux, a price comparison site that pays you cash for making purchases from particular retailers, has compiled a list of the best and worst states for e-commerce customers.

Not all states are equal when it comes to online shopping experiences. Residents of one state might pay less and receive their purchases faster than the residents of another. Knowing that, we were curious: Which are the best and worst states for online shoppers? Extrabux, a site focused on saving money, solved that mystery by analyzing "each state's online sales tax incongruities along with the varying shipping times and costs" to determine the best and worst places for online shoppers to live after averaging out that data.

You can find anything online, there are no barriers or restrictions, and have it shipped to your door -- home or office -- in a matter of days. By pitting suppliers against one another, you're often able to save money; and by never leaving your chair, you're able to save time -- "two of our most valued commodities in the world today," writes Extrabux's Jeff Nobbs on the Extrabux Blog. Extrabux, a comparison shopping website, analyzed three factors -- sales tax rates, shipping time and shipping costs -- to build out a list of the five best states to live for online shoppers.

Two young San Diegans have turned a college project into a business that is worth millions. Jeff Nobbs and Noah Auerhahn, who are both 23 years old, are the founders of Extrabux.com. Extrabux is an online search engine that allows shoppers to find the best price on any product, find exclusive coupons for those products and get cash back from more than 1,600 online retailers.

Inuvo, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INUV), an online technology and services company, announced today that it has partnered with Extrabux, Inc. to create a comparison shopping API with integrated cash back and coupon discounts for users. The application will be available to web publishers and mobile application developers. Inuvo will focus on technical integration and sales of the API-based service, dubbed BargainMatch. With two publishers already signed, BargainMatch is now market ready.

Jeff Nobbs, co-founder of Extrabux.com, compared the cost of purchasing college textbooks at campus bookstores with those bought through e-retailers. He also compared the sell-back prices from the same outlets and the rental prices for the same books.

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn, President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites.

Noah Auerhahn and Jeff Nobbs knew they were onto a good business idea last year, when they won the fourth annual USC technology plan competition. They were undergraduates after all, competing in a contest that was open to all graduate students, faculty and researchers on campus. Nevertheless, Auerhahn tells me that what happened yesterday was "very unexpected." [...] Online searches for "Extrabux" on Google yesterday eclipsed searches that included keywords for such terms as "Tiger Wood accident rumors" and "Chelsea Clinton engagement," Auerhahn says.

I'm always wishing I had a few extra bucks. Ergo, I'm thinking I should check out Extrabux more often, since its main mission in life is to make sure that consumers have extra bucks. I thought I'd mention Extrabux, since it's Cyber Monday and all -- as you already know, unless you've just awakened from a coma [...] Anyway, Extrabux works like this: You type in a search word -- like maybe you're looking for Zhu Zhu Pets [...] Extrabux, which kind of operates as your own personal shopper, groups these results by brand, the online store and the price.

It's Cyber Monday, and you know what that means: time to shop till you drop - online! And this year, it looks like Extrabux.com, which is currently the most-searched term on Google, is taking the Internet by storm.

So where should you click to find the best bargains? "Good Morning America" asked professional bloggers who hunt for online deals to share their secrets. Use a site like Extrabux to compare prices, find coupon codes and get cash back for making your purchases. "It's a cash back site, it's an online shopping portal, but it also has a comparison-shopping element as well. So if you're looking (for) the Tickle Me Elmo Hands, you'll find where the best deal is first and then make your purchase and get the cash back," Erin Gifford from Couponcravings.com, said.

San Diego software industry executive Bob Nascenzi has joined Extrabux a just-launched San Diego retailing website that combines cash back and rebate offers with comparison shopping capabilities. Nascenzi tells me he's joining Extrabux as both a board member and CEO. He previously was the interim CEO and a board member at San Diego-based ProQuo, former chief operating officer of TARGUSInfo, and CEO of Claritas, the marketing information resources company now operated by the New York-based Nielsen Co.

Since not all online stores charge state taxes, and many offer free shipping, I'd like to know well before I give my credit card number if I have to pay such charges. The people behind Extrabux, a shopping comparison Web site that relaunched Tuesday, got that part right by listing the store price and the tax and shipping costs for most items once you enter your ZIP code.

Coupons can yield big savings on purchases for your family...Cash back: Extrabux.com.