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forum thread Posted by redsolar | Staff • Jun 28, 2024

Share, Discover, Discuss in the New Slickdeals Marketplace Deals Forum

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Welcome to the Marketplace Deals Forum - Rules and Policies


At Slickdeals, we always strive to present the best deals for you. However, we understand there are times when you simply want an item at a lower price, even if it doesn't qualify as a "Hot Deal" for a variety of reasons. Additionally, there are instances where a newer merchant may not yet meet our Hot Deals feedback and rating guidelines (as described in the sticky threads here), but they still offer great prices and products.

To provide you with more options, we've created the Marketplace Deals forum. Here, you can discover a wider variety of merchants, items, and sales. Merchants who do not meet our Hot Deals rating criteria, as well as various other shopping platforms not previously listed on Slickdeals, can now be found in this space. As with Hot Deals, banned merchants are still not allowed and our normal Terms of Service and Policies continue to apply. Additionally, deals from individuals on peer-to-peer marketplaces such as eBay are also not allowed.

As always, we value your feedback and encourage you to share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas about this new forum. Please be active with upvoting and downvoting and commenting in threads so we can better gauge how much you do or do not like this idea. If you come across a thread in Hot Deals that would be better suited here, please mod alert so we can move it accordingly.
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Forum link <-- Share, discover and discuss marketplace deals here.


Welcome to the Marketplace Deals Forum - Rules and Policies


At Slickdeals, we always strive to present the best deals for you. However, we understand there are times when you simply want an item at a lower price, even if it doesn't qualify as a "Hot Deal" for a variety of reasons. Additionally, there are instances where a newer merchant may not yet meet our Hot Deals feedback and rating guidelines (as described in the sticky threads here), but they still offer great prices and products.

To provide you with more options, we've created the Marketplace Deals forum. Here, you can discover a wider variety of merchants, items, and sales. Merchants who do not meet our Hot Deals rating criteria, as well as various other shopping platforms not previously listed on Slickdeals, can now be found in this space. As with Hot Deals, banned merchants are still not allowed and our normal Terms of Service and Policies continue to apply. Additionally, deals from individuals on peer-to-peer marketplaces such as eBay are also not allowed.

As always, we value your feedback and encourage you to share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas about this new forum. Please be active with upvoting and downvoting and commenting in threads so we can better gauge how much you do or do not like this idea. If you come across a thread in Hot Deals that would be better suited here, please mod alert so we can move it accordingly.

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Jul 10, 2024
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Asian888
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More rules! YAY!
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Quote from Asian888 :
More rules! YAY!
From these types of sites and their related deals, the regular deals forum would be overrun. Most of the deals I see posted in the marketplace forum are some rinky-dink crap. I was going to subscribe to it but changed my mind after perusing the deals in it. I get the need for an off-of-the-main-site spot for these to move them to. Keeps the clutter down.
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Quote from c2nah777 :
From these types of sites and their related deals, the regular deals forum would be overrun. Most of the deals I see posted in the marketplace forum are some rinky-dink crap. I was going to subscribe to it but changed my mind after perusing the deals in it. I get the need for an off-of-the-main-site spot for these to move them to. Keeps the clutter down.
That's exactly the point of it. We had quite a few members reach out and ask if there was a possibility to create a dedicated spot for deals that are more on the fringe. Still good deals but maybe from somewhat of an unknown seller or a site that requires some patience such as AliExpress, Temu, Shein and others as they don't make it easy to find things and you really have to spend some mental capacity to sift through items and make sure the pictures are representative of what you may actually get, etc. And of course, deals that otherwise would be removed for not qualifying based on seller quality from US based marketplaces such as Amazon, Newegg, Walmart and others.

So this serves exactly that purpose. Safer space for shoppers who don't want to spend the capacity get to enjoy the cleaner Hot Deals experience and the ones who do can participate here. Hopefully everyone wins in the long run.
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Quote from redsolar :
That's exactly the point of it. We had quite a few members reach out and ask if there was a possibility to create a dedicated spot for deals that are more on the fringe. Still good deals but maybe from somewhat of an unknown seller or a site that requires some patience such as AliExpress, Temu, Shein and others as they don't make it easy to find things and you really have to spend some mental capacity to sift through items and make sure the pictures are representative of what you may actually get, etc. And of course, deals that otherwise would be removed for not qualifying based on seller quality from US based marketplaces such as Amazon, Newegg, Walmart and others.

So this serves exactly that purpose. Safer space for shoppers who don't want to spend the capacity get to enjoy the cleaner Hot Deals experience and the ones who do can participate here. Hopefully everyone wins in the long run.
Congrats! This is a great move! Looking forward to some future stuff like this
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Quote from redsolar :
That's exactly the point of it. We had quite a few members reach out and ask if there was a possibility to create a dedicated spot for deals that are more on the fringe. Still good deals but maybe from somewhat of an unknown seller or a site that requires some patience such as AliExpress, Temu, Shein and others as they don't make it easy to find things and you really have to spend some mental capacity to sift through items and make sure the pictures are representative of what you may actually get, etc. And of course, deals that otherwise would be removed for not qualifying based on seller quality from US based marketplaces such as Amazon, Newegg, Walmart and others.

So this serves exactly that purpose. Safer space for shoppers who don't want to spend the capacity get to enjoy the cleaner Hot Deals experience and the ones who do can participate here. Hopefully everyone wins in the long run.
It's a very good move. Thanks for evolving with the marketplaces to give us a designated space for it. I will contribute when I find a good deal brewing from these places. There are some nuggets here.Hopefully, the popular ones could get promoted to the main page if they gain traction. A centralized Marketplace forum is a timely move.
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Quote from c2nah777 :
It's a very good move. Thanks for evolving with the marketplaces to give us a designated space for it. I will contribute when I find a good deal brewing from these places. There are some nuggets here.Hopefully, the popular ones could get promoted to the main page if they gain traction. A centralized Marketplace forum is a timely move.
Thank you for suggesting that - definitely getting into this new-ish direction slowly. Frontpage is absolutely an option too, we have had some limited successes with AliExpress before for example - but definitely staying close to ensure that we aren't accidentally letting bad deals through.

And then of course, there is pricing volatility - trying to figure out how to make sense of mutliple sellers selling what appears to be the same item but a price range can be quite large, minimum cart sizes for shipping... lots of fun operational challenges to solve. So used to "you pay posted price" merchants, so this is different.
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Quote from whimsicalhoarder :
Congrats! This is a great move! Looking forward to some future stuff like this
Thank you - as you browse and have feedback, definitely let us know. We want this forum to be valuable to shoppers.

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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank Hawkins1

If Temu and AliExpress "Deals" come up on Slickdeals as Popular/Hot Deals, I think I am done with the site
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FrugalFreak
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I like ultra bargain stuff, this is perfect, but wish the titles had retailer listed.
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Quote from FrugalFreak :
I like ultra bargain stuff, this is perfect, but wish the titles had retailer listed.
Mostly Temu and Ali. Anyone who's looking for cheap trinkets knows to search there directly but the kickbacks on those sites must be good enough for the site runners to spam their links here
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Quote from Hawkins1 :
If Temu and AliExpress "Deals" come up on Slickdeals as Popular/Hot Deals, I think I am done with the site

EXACTLY my sentiment.
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