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Alternatives to SD?

1,744 242 December 19, 2023 at 04:45 AM in Question
I've been using SD for almost 18 years and the deals really are lacking nowadays. What other websites are you recommending?

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01-23-2024 at 01:16 PM.
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Just so we're clear, there are no alternatives. Right?

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I got the Reference...and chuckled as I read your post.
I had to think about it, and I remember the reference, but i honestly didn't get into stuffz at all. i just wanted to see if any of the old schoolers were still around.
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I had to think about it, and I remember the reference, but i honestly didn't get into stuffz at all. i just wanted to see if any of the old schoolers were still around.
I had an account at stuffz...I know a lot of peeps jumped ship as SD was clamping down on the amount of skin that was OK to show in the Bikini Thread was getting curtailed on what you could post/link to.
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I had an account at stuffz...I know a lot of peeps jumped ship as SD was clamping down on the amount of skin that was OK to show in the Bikini Thread was getting curtailed on what you could post/link to.

Oh man… the bikini thread. What a time to be alive.
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pics or it didn't happen
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Being placed in the Lounge only encourages the lack of control!
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Surfing websites with forums often have an incredible amount of photos that would please you. Smilie
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02-03-2024 at 12:36 PM.
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For me the biggest negative is the advertisements. It feels like there are more ads/sponsored products than before. It could also be that the ads are the same but the quality of posted deals has gone down so tolerating the ads seems to have a smaller payoff. I suspect its a little of both.

In the past, SD felt like a place where consumers could organize to make it easier for people who want something to find a deal on that thing, and the SD company sat quietly in the background just making sure we could do that smoothly. With SD changing hands a couple of times, forums being taken down and increase in sponsors, it feels less like a community and more like the commoditization of our eyeballs.
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02-03-2024 at 03:52 PM.
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For me the biggest negative is the advertisements. It feels like there are more ads/sponsored products than before. It could also be that the ads are the same but the quality of posted deals has gone down so tolerating the ads seems to have a smaller payoff. I suspect its a little of both.

In the past, SD felt like a place where consumers could organize to make it easier for people who want something to find a deal on that thing, and the SD company sat quietly in the background just making sure we could do that smoothly. With SD changing hands a couple of times, forums being taken down and increase in sponsors, it feels less like a community and more like the commoditization of our eyeballs.
Before the rise of the internet I found plenty of good deals and they lasted. Now those same kinda deals get bought up and the locusts leave nothing behind. So it becomes a choice between buying at higher prices to avoid missing out or hoping that you can beat the internet "deal hunters" to the deal once it drops lower.

Though these same "deal hunters" can have all these Amazon "deals". I'll just buy them from the actual store(s) that they're merely matching.
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Before the rise of the internet I found plenty of good deals and they lasted. Now those same kinda deals get bought up and the locusts leave nothing behind. So it becomes a choice between buying at higher prices to avoid missing out or hoping that you can beat the internet "deal hunters" to the deal once it drops lower.

Though these same "deal hunters" can have all these Amazon "deals". I'll just buy them from the actual store(s) that they're merely matching.
Retail is really struggling right now and not just because of theft. For awhile now its been Walmart, Target and Amazon. When I used to do surveys for Walmart they were constantly concerned with keeping up with Amazon and I told them over and over that it was pointless. Their website is just a mess. I suspect Target will fold in the next 5-10 years.

Amazon continues to crush everyone and not just with shipping. When I'm looking for a product on Amazon I just enter a fair price that I can afford and always manage to find something of quality in my price range. The same can't be said for retail. I will miss stores like Macy's and JCP, but didn't and still haven't invested much in their online presence.
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