Bryant Quan, Slickdeals CEO

Quote from alchi : Most of your front page deals for video games steal content from CAG. I guess you have no problem when your site is doing the stealing.

Really?



These are just a couple of examples, I'm sure if you look hard enough you can make a claim for both sides. This is the internet, not some small city. Deals are sourced and shared in so many different ways.

Hes Chinese. That figures. If he was WHITE. BLACK, or PORTA-RICAN, I'd be more impressed. But becoming a CEO by age 22 is the norm and expected in China.

Quote from brush : millions, my guess. millions in just the holiday season and more, all over the year

And it has saved me tens of thousands of dollars. And I have probably saved SD users tens of thousands with the deals that I EXCLUSIVELY post here. Everyone wins!

I'm pretty confident this site nets at least $10k per day from affiliate commission alone Average of 4% of every sale made clicked through this site is pure profit. Wish SD offered cash back like some other sites though, but good for Bryant.

Quote from BargainBob : Hes Chinese. That figures. If he was WHITE. BLACK, or PORTA-RICAN, I'd be more impressed. But becoming a CEO by age 22 is the norm and expected in China.

I'm American and was born and raised in Arizona.
Ambition and hard work trumps race or religion.


But if you must know, my parents are Vietnamese

Quote from SP33DFR34K : Really? Attachment 1250186Attachment 1250188Attachment 1250190Attachment 1250192 These are just a couple of examples, I'm sure if you look hard enough you can make a claim for both sides. This is the internet, not some small city. Deals are sourced and shared in so many different ways.

I'll also comment and expound on this a little:

Users post content to Slickdeals, they find the content from all over so we usually have no idea where it comes from unless they happen to say so in the thread.

Quote from serra : don't ever confuse bryant with this dude again

How did he get negative rep anyway? almost -10^9 LOL

How do your competitors steal content when you are stealing content- aka aggregation. I think there's a flaw in your logic. I don't mind that you made a choice. But be straight forward about it.

Just say "I want you monkeys to click our link when we steal, errr, aggregate content. The end."

Quote from rman : not everything is as rosy as it seems. What I detest about slickdeals is that they ban the mention of competition even if it saves you $. I dont trust these guys completely, and I dont trust the front page items as they are placed there in exchange for $, in my opinion atleast some of the times. Example, you cant mention the word urlhasbeenblockeds.com <a competitor> since the URL is blocked, lets find a way.. www.technologybargains.com .. remove "nology" and you get what I mean. i visit that site as often as I visit slickdeals. I like slickdeals better because it does encourage speech, just not free speech.

I think it's safe to say it would be stupid to direct traffic to a competing business. People complain about everything.

Have to chime in and say great work on part of Bryant and team for keeping this site still feel like a small interactive community even though it has probably grown ten folds since I first started frequenting it. Only downside of that I have seen is deals selling out much quicker then they used to due to the number of folks jumping on them.
Secondly, kudos for the being out and open about who you are and answering the posts individually. Not a whole lot of sites allow you to have a one on one conversation with folks behind the site like this.
Keep up the good work.

Only gripe I have is about the free tshirt I keep hearing about that folks with front page deals have received! I have had a front page deal but no free tshirt. What gives? :-)

Quote from ThoreauHD : How do your competitors steal content when you are stealing content- aka aggregation. I think there's a flaw in your logic. I don't mind that you made a choice. But be straight forward about it. Just say "I want you monkeys to click our link when we steal, errr, aggregate content. The end."

Giving constructive feedback is one thing, but your post is really pathetic.

How much did it cost you to join slickdeals? Oh what's that? It was free?
Well then how many hours did you spend developing this site and building up the company/business model..what? none?

You have no right to complain about anything that goes on here..anything you might have given to the site you gave of your own free will and even what you gave was made possible by the existing technology/framework of the site. If I ran the site I'd just permanently ban any bottom feeding ingrates such as yourself.

Instead of spending all your time hating and being jealous of success, you should look to these young hard working people as a model and a hope for this country. A nation full of arm-chair quarterbacks who think they have a "right" to whine on a forum they didn't lift a finger for will be a bitter impoverished nation permanantly attached to the gubmint teat.

Long live slickdeals! If you don't like it,

Quote from sleets1 : If Selma were to be real, what do you think she would look like? Old Nanny clipping coupons or...something else?

she is real but she's a half bot

Quote from dragonwarrior : she is real but she's a half bot

I think we need an interview with Selma

Quote from ThoreauHD : How do your competitors steal content when you are stealing content- aka aggregation. I think there's a flaw in your logic. I don't mind that you made a choice. But be straight forward about it. Just say "I want you monkeys to click our link when we steal, errr, aggregate content. The end."

Let me point out that the majority of content on our website is posted by our users and found by our users. We don't always know where the content comes from because they're posted by users, however, the a good chunk of deal content on the web starts on Slickdeals and spreads to other websites. We've done tests with exclusive offers to see how they spread to other sites and they always do. I don't necessarily mind that it spreads, as long as they dont copy content verbatim. But as many others have said, we also choose not to promote our competitors.

The differentiating factor is that Slickdeals has scale and size in its community. People come here first because they know that's where the deals usually start. Other deal websites don't have as large a community, and some dont even have a community at all. Those that don't have a community have employees who look for content.

Quote from rman : what is a half bot? Is Selma a girl? Is Selma a team? Is Selma a guy? Is Selma a program? I suspect Selma is just a team.. of deal hunters who are on Slickdeals payroll.. It just makes sense. Any other explanation does not make sense.

Selma is not employed by Slickdeals, she is not paid by Slickdeals, she has refused swag from us, and as far as we know, does not work for any of the merchants. We've never met her, but we've talked to her. Based on her history of posts, ips, computers, we know its probably a single person, although we have seen someone claiming to be her sister on the site using her account. She identifies herself as a woman.

She is not a bot. she is a real person. She has feelings. She gets upset when we merge things wrong or do something wrong. We've tried to reach out to her and give her stuff as thanks, and she doesnt even want it.

Asked why she does it, she says she does it for the community.

You may say "its impossible for one person to do this" and I retort that it is... if you had the drive and effort... You can see how sparse she is with posts, and how cut and dry it is, she's got the timing down to a science, but even she still makes mistakes.