No matter if you’re looking for kids Halloween costumes or couples Halloween costumes, you need to know the best stores where you can buy Halloween costumes online. Stores only carry limited sizes and styles, not to mention they never offer sales. Shopping for Halloween costumes online is your best bet to save money, find your size, and find the most original costumes around!

We here over at Buy Halloween have our preferred retailers when it comes to cost and supply. Here we will rank them for you so you can stop searching the web and instead find the best place to buy Halloween costumes quickly!

Top 6 Retailers in Which to Buy Halloween Costumes

#6 – Frank Bee Costumes

We’ve found a good selection of less expensive costumes at Frank Bee’s, but their site is kind of a pain to navigate. Also, all sales are final. Even though this is the case for just about every store selling costumes, it’s kind of a pain when shopping online as you can not physically try on the costumes. Rating: 3.5 Stars

#5 – Costume Cauldron

Costume Cauldron would be one of our top 3, if it wasn’t for the fact that their site is very difficult to search through and navigate. The good news is it looks like they’re in the process of changing things up, so things may be functioning properly in time for the Halloween 2010 rush. What do we love about Costume Cauldron? They have a REALLY wide variety of costumes. We’re always partial to TV and Movie characters, and they offer many styles that we have not seen on any other site. They also get very high ratings for costumer service. If you’ve searched everywhere else and have still not found the Halloween costume of your dreams, check out Costume Cauldron! Rating: 4 Stars

#4 – Costume City

Offering Free Shipping if you spend over $50, we like the layout of Costume City as well as their selection. They also offer a 115% price match guarantee. In other words, if you find a site selling an identical costume for less, they’ll meet that price plus give you an added 15% off. For a webmaster’s point of view, we can only direct you to their site and not a specific costume recommendation, which is a bummer as it makes you do more work on your end. In spite of that, we can gladly recommend Costume City. Rating: 4 Stars

#3 – Costume Craze

With low shipping (currently $2.99 per order, normally $5.99, and free if over $50) and a 115% price match guarantee, we love Costume Craze. Their site is attractive and well organized, plus they have sales on costumes all the time. The seem to carry more sizes in popular styles as well. One of our favorites. Rating: 4.5 Stars

#2 – Buy Costumes

Buy Costumes is one of the best sites online for costumes and party supplies. Their site is attractive, well organized, and we like their newsletters as well. They offer a 110% price match guarantee and we’re quite fond of their costumer service. Great selection, and it’s a one stop shop if you’re searching for birthday party supplies or dress up costumes in which to play pretend (for boys or girls). We love them. Rating: 4.75 Stars :)

#1 – Costume Discounters

We really do love Buy Costumes and could have easily chosen it as our number one, but Costume Discounters continually has the lowest prices around. If their prices didn’t start off the lowest, they offer a 120% price match guarantee. Their variety of styles seems to be around the same as Buy Costumes and Costume Craze, maybe a little less. Their search feature gives you clean, easy results to read, they ship the fastest, and they ship internationally. The best site is almost a toss up between Buy Costumes and Costume Discounters, but we think Costume Discounters has a bit of an edge! Rating: 5 Stars

As a general rule of thumb, we primarily search and shop from our top three sites when we’re looking to buy Halloween costumes. Occasionally we’ll find one or two unique costumes at Amazon, but since the majority of them are carried by third-party retailers, costumes at Amazon seem to be more expensive a lot of the time. They do have a decent selection of licensed goods (like official character wigs, etc) and carry the same products as The Disney Store, but we prefer them for our books, DVDs, and electronics.

As I write this, it’s the middle of July and we’re seeing all our favorite retailers preparing for you to buy Halloween stuff in 2010. MANY ARE OFFERING BIG SALES if you buy now. Buy Halloween costumes now (or in August) to get the best sizes and prices available!

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