How we choose deals
We throw away more products than we publish. This page explains what gets thrown away and why, so you can judge whether the rest is worth your attention.
Last updated August 9, 2026
Where the products come from
The catalogue is built from an Amazon product feed, swept every six hours across every department and refreshed automatically. Nobody hand-picks products, and no seller can pay to be included. Right now that gives us 28,145 products from 2,894 brands.
The price has to be real
This is the check that removes the most products, and it is the reason our numbers look smaller than other deal sites.
A discount is only meaningful if the original price was. Third-party sellers routinely set a fictional “list price” so their everyday price looks like a bargain: a $9.99 mini fan marked as “was $69.99”, a 128GB memory card marked as “was $419.99”. Neither was ever sold at that price.
So we apply three rules to every product before it is listed:
- An original price at or below the current price is deleted. It is not a discount, and showing it struck through would be a lie.
- Any original price implying more than 70% off is rejected. Across the whole catalogue, discounts decay smoothly up to that point and almost everything beyond it is a broken or invented figure. We keep the product and drop the claim.
- The percentage is calculated by us, from the two prices we accepted. We never display the discount figure the feed supplies.
The practical result: no product on this site shows more than 70% off, and a product with no believable original price shows no discount badge at all, even where the feed claims one.
The product has to be worth looking at
Listing pages only show products rated 3 or better with at least 500 reviews, priced above $5. A steep discount on something nobody has bought is not a deal, it is a warning.
Ranking combines three things: how deep the discount is, how well the product is rated, and how many people have reviewed it. Ranking by discount alone puts junk at the top, because the deepest discounts are attached to the least wanted products.
One product per brand, at the top
A single seller with several hundred near-identical listings would otherwise fill an entire page. So the top of a department is one product per brand, best first, and the rest of that brand’s stock follows further down rather than being removed.
It used to be removed, and that was wrong: a department reported a few hundred products when several thousand qualified, and the missing ones were not on page two either. If a count on this site says a thousand products, a thousand products are reachable.
Some products are excluded entirely
The catalogue is filtered for content as well as price. Around twenty-three categories of product are excluded regardless of how good the deal is, including alcohol, tobacco and vaping, gambling equipment, adult products, and drug paraphernalia. Several thousand products are rejected on a typical refresh.
The filter runs both when products are stored and again when a page is built, so tightening a rule takes effect immediately rather than waiting for products to cycle out.
What we do not do
- No countdown timers or invented scarcity. If a price is about to expire, we do not know that, so we do not claim it.
- No paid placement, ever. No brand has a commercial relationship with us.
- No hiding the affiliate relationship. We earn a commission when you buy. See the affiliate disclosure.
Common questions
Why are the discounts here smaller than on other deal sites?
Because we recalculate them. Sellers often inflate the original price so the discount looks larger. Where the implied discount is not credible we remove the original price rather than repeat it, which means the percentage you see is derived from prices we are willing to stand behind.
How often are prices updated?
Every six hours. Each product page shows exactly when its price was last checked. Amazon changes prices frequently, so the price on Amazon at the moment you buy is always the one that applies.
Do brands pay to appear on this site?
No. There is no paid placement of any kind. The catalogue is assembled automatically from a product feed and ranked by a fixed score, and commission rate is not one of the inputs.
Why is a product I saw yesterday gone?
Products drop out when they go out of stock, when the price rises above what we will list, or when they no longer clear the rating and review thresholds. Stale entries are removed rather than left up with an old price.
Found a price or discount on this site that looks wrong? Tell us. We would rather fix a bad number than leave it up.