Floating Prices
Over the past few days we’ve received several emails from our users asking why the prices of particular items listed on Dealoco don’t match the retailers’ sites. Typically, this occurs because the retailer decides they have attracted enough attention at the low, “deal” price and they revert the item to its original price. Amazon, one of our most popular stores, is notorious for adjusting pricing throughout the day.
For example, at 9:11am yesterday we posted a Fagor Pressure Cooker for $29 ($135 less than its original price) sold by Amazon. In less than two hours, Amazon had more than doubled the price and the deal was expired.
Going, Going…Gone
The best deals sell out quickly. If you see a deal you like, it’s important to act fast. To help you make an informed buying decision as quickly as possible, we include a product description, product reviews, and price comparisons for most deals.
I should mention that not all deals are published in the morning. Deals are added to Dealoco throughout the day. The best way to stay on top of the latest deals is by subscribing to our RSS feed. Speaking of RSS, If you’re in the market for a particular item, we offer a free deal alert service. And setup is a cinch:
Type the item name (e.g. Panasonic 55″ Plasma) into the search bar at the top of the site and click “Go”.- Click on the “Search RSS” link on the right-hand side of the search results page.
This feature will add a custom RSS feed to your favorite RSS reader, and you will be alerted whenever a deal matching your search criteria hits our website.
Dealoco Does the Legwork
To best serve our users, we put a lot of focus on our deal expiration process. When the site first launched, we were able to manually review the handful of deals that would get posted to the site a couple of times a day to ensure they were still valid. Now that we have increased our volume and maintain more than 200 active deals at all times, we’ve had to get creative. Thanks to some custom whiz-bang technology, deals are now validated several times a day. The system is still not 100% – hence the emails we’ve been receiving lately – but it’s continually improving.
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